Re-terminating a PoE Camera

[JohnnyUK]

Hi All

Due to a damaged ethernet plug (water), I want to re-terminate the camera's cable into an ethernet socket.

My challenge is that the wires don't conform to regular Ethernet standards.

Can anyone please tell me which colour wire goes where:



Thanks!

John

[illmonkey]

The cables are cables, you'll have to match it to the other end.

[jackofall84]

Assuming the other end still has an RJ45 on it. Can you buzz it through?

[Mr Pointy]

If you can't get to the other end to see what the order is then you might have to splash out £8 or so on a tester:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=network+tester&cr...

Punch down a couple of cores & you should see them light up but probably on different pins at each end. Move the wire so it matches the other end & work through the rest. Note that the cable doesn't look like it's twisted pairs so it won't be the greatest performance.

[JohnnyUK]

illmonkey said:

The cables are cables, you'll have to match it to the other end.

Sadly the cable disappears into the camera

[xeny]

You've not got the connector that was water damaged to examine?

Do you have any other identical cameras to compare against, or can share the camera model on the vague possibility someone here has one?

[Durzel]

What make is it? I remember Hikvision cameras have got a selection of colours that have to be mapped to the standard T568B config.

[Baldchap]

It depends entirely on the make of camera.

[chrisch77]

If you have already taken the damaged plug off the wires, and not left any coloured tails on the plug to compare with, then all bets are off....

[Durzel]

Baldchap said:

It depends entirely on the make of camera.

This.

I've done exactly this on several Hikvision cameras, but if it's not that make then you're in the realm of Googling to find out if anyone has ever worked out the pin-outs.

[Captain_Morgan]

Failing that cut the end of of another camera of the same type buzz out the connections on that and then repair both.

[EmailAddress]

It's probably this (with error on Transmit).



Presuming your camera is quite old?

[JohnnyUK]

Thanks - it was attached to an RJ45 socket, which I now cannot find - doh!

I have the following wires:

Blue & Blue/White
Green & Green/White
Red
Black
Purple

[JohnnyUK]

EmailAddress said:

It's probably this (with error on Transmit).



Presuming your camera is quite old?

Very, very close!

How would they correspond to an RJ45 socket?