Hikvision OEM POE Gone Bad
I have 12 HikVision OEM Cameras 5 dome, 7 bullet. They've been on the bench for a little over 3 weeks connected to my POE switch and working fine for the most part. I'm still pulling wire and am mostly making sure everything is working, especially the switch (PowerConnect 3424P) since it's an eBay special. Everything was fine into about 10 days ago when video on one of the dome cameras changed to a green block. It still had an IP and everything else. Having never used the cameras before, I took the cover off and noticed the desiccant packet inside (did not know that was in there) and removed it... still video problems. I then disconnected and reconnected the ribbon cable from the lens assembly to the circuit board. After this it worked.
Last night another camera was offline completely. I looked at the network switch's POE page and it said the port that camera was on had a POE fault with, more detail showed "overload" as the reason for the fault, with overload meaning it was drawing more than it should according to the help file. I power cycled the camera several times and it continued. I then used a POE splitter, powered by the same port of the POE switch, but now using the splitter to connect power to the camera's power lead instead of directly via POE and the camera worked again. I ran out of time and never pulled the cover off to do the ribbon cable shuffle that previously worked. I'm pretty sure this is not the same camera that had the video problem previously, as I tilted the lens on that camera and this problematic camera still points straight up.
In the meantime. Has anyone seen either of these problems on Hikvision cameras before? I'm concerned that of the 5 x domes I have, I've had an issue with 2 of them in less than 30 days. The bullets have not missed a beat.
I have 12 HikVision OEM Cameras 5 dome, 7 bullet. They've been on the bench for a little over 3 weeks connected to my POE switch and working fine for the most part. I'm still pulling wire and am mostly making sure everything is working, especially the switch (PowerConnect 3424P) since it's an eBay special. Everything was fine into about 10 days ago when video on one of the dome cameras changed to a green block. It still had an IP and everything else. Having never used the cameras before, I took the cover off and noticed the desiccant packet inside (did not know that was in there) and removed it... still video problems. I then disconnected and reconnected the ribbon cable from the lens assembly to the circuit board. After this it worked.
Last night another camera was offline completely. I looked at the network switch's POE page and it said the port that camera was on had a POE fault with, more detail showed "overload" as the reason for the fault, with overload meaning it was drawing more than it should according to the help file. I power cycled the camera several times and it continued. I then used a POE splitter, powered by the same port of the POE switch, but now using the splitter to connect power to the camera's power lead instead of directly via POE and the camera worked again. I ran out of time and never pulled the cover off to do the ribbon cable shuffle that previously worked. I'm pretty sure this is not the same camera that had the video problem previously, as I tilted the lens on that camera and this problematic camera still points straight up.
In the meantime. Has anyone seen either of these problems on Hikvision cameras before? I'm concerned that of the 5 x domes I have, I've had an issue with 2 of them in less than 30 days. The bullets have not missed a beat.
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