POE CAT6 Tests OK Yet No Camera Connectivity

[BlaineBug]

Here are some pictures of a recent test with the new tool. When in POE testing mode, the ethernet cable is plugged into the NVR and my device on the camera end. When it continuity testing mode, the device and a receiver are connected to the ethernet cable without having the NVR connected at all. What do you make of these results?

 

[BlaineBug]

Any thoughts on what might be going on here, and is this the correct forum to be posting a problem such as this one in?

 

[sebastiantombs]

I answered your post in the other thread regarding this. No need to cross post.

 

[mat200]

Here are some pictures of a recent test with the new tool. When in POE testing mode, the ethernet cable is plugged into the NVR and my device on the camera end. When it continuity testing mode, the device and a receiver are connected to the ethernet cable without having the NVR connected at all. What do you make of these results?

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Last picture PoE "Non Standard" ? .. hmmm .. I'll check the other thread .. thanks @sebastiantombs POE CAT6 Tests OK Yet No Camera Connectivity

 

[BlaineBug]

Last picture PoE "Non Standard" ? .. hmmm .. I'll check the other thread .. thanks @sebastiantombs POE CAT6 Tests OK Yet No Camera Connectivity

I'm not sure what non-standard means other than the possibility that Reolink uses different pins (1, 2, 3, and 6 according to my tester) than normal for their 48 volt power. Not sure.

 

[wittaj]

And I provided a possible solution as well in your other thread...

POE CAT6 Tests OK Yet No Camera Connectivity

I have installed a Reolink 6 security camera system on an 8 channel 2TB NVR about 13 months ago in June of 2021. The system was installed for about 1 full year and everything worked flawlessly. I used my own FastCat CAT6 solid core ethernet cable for the installation, and up until 2 or 3 weeks...

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[BlaineBug]

Yesterday evening I installed the Ubiquiti GP-V480-032G POE injector on this particular camera's CAT6 cabling and the camera has been online for about 13 hours now. Unlike with the el-cheapo POE injector that I returned from last week, the Ubiquiti POE injector is providing a full 48 volts at the end of the length of CAT6 so I felt comfortable plugging the camera in. I suppose I'll update IF there are any issues? For now, it appears to be working...fingers crossed!

 

[BlaineBug]

System has been running for more than 4 days now and I haven't had this camera drop out since adding the Ubiquiti POE injector. I hope this test helps some folks who might otherwise think that they have a defective run of ethernet cable. It certainly saved me from running a new line, as I don't believe that would have solved the problem regardless with intermittent issues such as this.