We all make mistakes and it seems I made a big one. I left my DS-2CD2342WD-I out in the rain. Powered. And without protecting the pigtail RJ45 socket well enough. When I woke up, BI was reporting "no signal." So I brought the camera in and the RJ45 socket appeared to have moisture in it. So I figured if I dried it out that might help. I plugged in a 1500 watt space heater, cranked it up to "10" and figured the pigtail socket would dry out in a few minutes. Three hours later I remembered that it was still drying out. Opps. The good news is that it was most definitely dry. The bad news is that the pigtail was in a state of melt down and the RJ45 socket had deformed...in fact it was so deformed that (after I let it cool down) an RJ45 plug wouldn't fit into it. I could fuQ up a wet dream I tell ya. So I reheated the pigtail and after it got soft again I plugged a spare RJ45 connector into it. It wasn't easy getting it but I did manage to fit it into the deformed socket. I then plugged the camera into a POE switch...and it booted!...and the camera worked!...but the RJ45 fit was so freakin' tight that I destroyed the pigtail RJ45 socket trying to get the cable unplugged from the camera. So I ran out and bought a CE TECH Model #5025-WH Category 5e Jack at Home Depot and used the Hikvision technical bulliten (posted below) to rebuild the socket. It worked! The camera is now installed (inside, he he he) and a little uglier but none-the-worse for the wear.
A big shout-out and sincere thanks to nzipcamera who posted these documents in an earlier topic.
Thank you very...VERY...much nzipcamera!
A big shout-out and sincere thanks to nzipcamera who posted these documents in an earlier topic.
Thank you very...VERY...much nzipcamera!
