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Now that I have the leisure to plan out the new home for the DVR/Camera stuff I’ve been sketching things out in some detail. I’d like to make it as easy to work on the system as possible, while keeping the mess and clutter to a bar minimum.

Just to give you an example of how messy this is, we’re talking about a dozen 12V power lines running off the supply, 5 RG6 lines in for camera feeds, almost two dozen smaller runs of RG6 split off the switcher, multiplexer and DVR (keeping count? So far thats approximately 40 wires running around in that space).

I figure I’m going to have to rack mount some of this stuff, and create a patch bay of sorts to make re-organizing things easier down the line. I’ve no experience with this so I’m trying to puzzle out the most effective way of doing this.

So far this is what I have, using f-type connectors off the board:

DVR (First Bank of connectors)
8 connectors on the board which feed directly into 8 BNC connectors on the DVR

Cameras (Second bank of connectors)
8 independent feeds (one for each camera), split once for 16 connectors all total.

Multiplexer/Switcher (Third bank of connectors)
12 connectors (inputs for both the multiplexer and switcher)
4 connectors (outputs 3 multiplexer, 1 switcher)

The middle (or second) bank is patched to the upper (first) and lower (third) banks to distribute the video signals (except for one output from the third bank which is fed into the DVR bank)

Wow, this seems to call for 40 connections off the board and a tubload of wire (RG6 with f-types sounds a little labour intensive for this, I can’t help wondering if I can get by with RG59 and RCA connectors instead).

Any thoughts? Bueller?

On reflection f-type connectors would drive me crazy, I’m trying to find a deal on a crap-load of RCA panel mount connectors as that’s probably the easiest (and most economical) way to go.

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