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One of my customers managed to fry the rj45 socket on a Lorex (cheap!) brand ip camera. No idea how, but the pins are cooked.
He had purchased a new socket but needed someone else to repair. It’s an rj45 with a standard power jack on the side.
Of course, the colours are all different.. so I made up a little test rig with a cut up patch cable to work out what does what. The power hack works. Red and black. Slightly larger cores… continuity tested.
I think I’m right with it but it’s an hours drive to plug it in just to test it.
From the new socket, I’ve got a spare core that isn’t connected to anything… can’t even trace it to a pin… and on the socket itself, there’s nothing on pins 4 and 7 if I remember. Definitely 2 pins unused.
TLDR; how can I test an ip camera without the dvr?
He had purchased a new socket but needed someone else to repair. It’s an rj45 with a standard power jack on the side.
Of course, the colours are all different.. so I made up a little test rig with a cut up patch cable to work out what does what. The power hack works. Red and black. Slightly larger cores… continuity tested.
I think I’m right with it but it’s an hours drive to plug it in just to test it.
From the new socket, I’ve got a spare core that isn’t connected to anything… can’t even trace it to a pin… and on the socket itself, there’s nothing on pins 4 and 7 if I remember. Definitely 2 pins unused.
TLDR; how can I test an ip camera without the dvr?
