CCA Cable
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fenderman
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Yes. Dropped packets. It's foolish to save 30 bucks on the part of your project that is the most time-consuming and difficult... The CCA is also more brittle and prone to breaking during installation.
fenderman
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I understand that. It's already installed as that is what was installed previously and I'm looking to upgrade to solid copper.
But, I've also been having video quality problems, hence me asking if CCA will degrade video quality (and, therefore, if I'll see better quality video if/when I upgrade to solid copper)
fenderman
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The video itself won't be better quality... The signal that sent is all digital..
CCA will cause all sorts of issues, upgrading to solid copper will be worth it.
I see. Either way, I'd like to upgrade, but was hoping it might resolve some ghosting/pixelation issues I'm having with moving objects (mostly people/faces) at night in low light. I was thinking (and hopeful) that the CCA cable might be affecting video quality.
fenderman
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Guess it could pixelation... Because of the times that's a symptom of dropped packets... Ghosting on the other hand is usually due to a small sensors and insufficient light... Or high noise reduction settings / wdr setting
I'll check it out. I have a feeling it's mostly because I had zoomed in my 5231 into an area in my driveway and around my car with insufficient light (was hoping to get better facial identification, but I guess I need to add more light first).
I'll also check out those noise reduction settings (wdr is off) and see if adding the copper cable might help- I bet it's a combination of cable issues (CCA's are a few years old) and poor lighting/settings.
fenderman
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Copper cable will not affect motion blur. You mean more lighting and or you must have just your exposure settings.
mat200
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Hi @cam26
Easy enough to test, just get a long patch cat5e/6 cable w/copper wires and run it to your camera in some reasonable temporary setup ( try to keep the same view so you have a better test ) and see if the results are different. ( hint - this is one reason why I like to pull N+1 cables to each location, gives me an extra cable to test with if I need.. )
For those following:
I picked up a couple of super long cat5e/6 patch cables from monoprice when they had a deal just for testing. ( monoprice seems to have random deals - so good imho to have 2 extra long cable lines around .. 2 because you never know when you break a tab off a RJ45 plug.. argh, done that enough )
Thanks @mat200 , good idea. I'll do that while installing the new cable (bought a 1000ft roll from monoprice on amazon (wish they had a 500ft roll for half the cost, but that's ok)) and compare the picture. I'll report back if I notice any difference once I dive into that project.