Alright kids, once again do not try this at home.
Hey guys! What's goin on? This is Tyler from Nelly's Security, and in today's video we
are going to fix this Uniview RJ45 connection. Now in our last two videos in this series,
we showed you how to fix an R-Series connection and an H-Series connection, and both of those
cameras were slightly complicated to fix, just because of those unusual pinout diagrams.
But if you need to fix your RJ45 connection on a Uniview security camera, I do have good
news for you. This is actually going to be quite a bit simpler than our H-Series and
R-Series cameras because the pinout diagram for Uniview cameras is identical to the T568B
Ethernet standard. In the past two videos, I showed you how to fix your Ethernet connection
using an Ethernet coupler. I am going to show you a different process in this video. So
let's go ahead and jump right in and I will show you exactly what tools you need for this
process.
Alright, first we will need our camera with the damaged Ethernet cable. Next we are going
to need a keystone jack, which is essentially the RJ45 female connection. There are two
kinds of keystone jacks you can choose from: the kind that requires a punchdown tool and
the kind that requires no extra tool. That said, you may also need a punchdown tool for
this. You'll also need some way to strip the outer jacket of your Ethernet cable, either
some wire cutters, I'm just going to use this simple Cat5 cable stripper. We sell all of
these tools at nellyssecurity.com and I will link those down in the description below.
Now let's get into the process.
Alright, our first step here is just to cut off this damaged connector. Then we are going
to strip back this Ethernet cable and reveal the twisted pairs inside. Go ahead and untwist
those wires so we have eight individual strands. Again, the pinout diagram for Uniview cameras
is identical to the standard T658B, so the order of these wires is going to be orange
stripe, orange, green stripe, blue, blue stripe, green, and brown stripe, brown. Alright, now
let's get these wires laid out in our keystone jack. First, I'm going to show you how to
do this on the standard traditional keystone jack that requires a punchdown tool. So first
you'll take your Ethernet cable and lay it there in the center of the jack and we are
going to lay each of these eight wires in one of these terminals. You can see on the
sides there we do have some color coding. And again we're going to be following the
B standard. If you're using one of these keystone jacks with an H-Series or an R-Series camera,
be sure to follow the number instead of the color. To see which color corresponds to the
color, go ahead and check out our blog post in the description below. There you'll find
diagrams for H-Series and R-Series so you can figure out which color goes where. But
for Uniview, it's fine to use that color-coding diagram because it's going to be the same.
Now when you're using your punchdown tool, you will want to hold this so the blade is
out. That blade is going to cut off our excess wire. Once we have everything in place, just
punch down and it puts that wire right there in between those conductors.
So on the left side from top to bottom, we have orange, orange stripe, green, and green
stripe. Or if you don't have Uniview: 2, 1, 6, 3. On the right side, we are going to follow
the order: brown, brown stripe, blue, blue stripe. Or, for a non-Uniview camera, we will
follow the numbers 8, 7, 4, 5.
Pull off all the excess wires still hanging on and add your dust covers. And congratulations!
You have successfully fixed your RJ45 connector. If you don't have a punchdown tool handy,
you can pick up one of these toolless jacks, which allows you to fasten the wires into
place without any additional tools. These can be a little bit more convenient, especially
if you're in a pinch and you don't have another tool handy. However, I do prefer the control
that the punchdown tool offers. It lets me place those cables in one by one, whereas
with this connector you do have to line all those wires up at the same time, and it can
be more of a hassle. To do this, you will take your stripped Ethernet cable and push
it into the hole right there on the top. And once again, we are just going to line this
up with the number and, if you have a Uniview camera, the color.
Since we're technically doing this upside down, it is going to be a slightly different
order, and again be sure to follow the B standard there. So from top to bottom on the left:
brown, brown stripe, blue, blue stripe. And on the right side from top to bottom, we're
going to go orange, orange stripe, and green, green stripe. If you have an H-Series or an
R-Series camera, just focus on those numbers instead of the colors. And we are going to
go 8, 7, 4, 5. And on the right side: 2, 1, 6, 3.
Once you have all those wires in the correct position, make sure everything is nice and
clean in the center there. We are going to close this connector until we hear a clicking
sound. Now to get off all these excess wires, since we don't have a punchdown tool, we're
going to use this little lever that came with the connector. We're going to stick it there
at the bottom. It clicks right into place. And we are going to push down to use the blades
built into this connector to cut off those excess wires. You may have to twist these
a little bit to get them to come off all the way. And with that, we now have a successfully
punched down connector and we can now use this as our RJ45 connection. Now let's go
ahead and test this out.
As we plug this in, we do have IR lights coming on, which means this camera is receiving power.
And let's jump onto Easy Tools to see if we're getting any data connection. And as you can
see here it looks like we are. We have power, we have data, this camera is once again fully
functional.
Once again, be sure to check out those links in the description below to find out where
you can purchase all of these products on our website. You can also check out our blog
post which is linked down there.That blog post will walk you through everything step-by-step
for H-Series, R-Series, Uniview, whether you decide to use Ethernet couplers or keystone
jacks, you will find all the diagrams you need over there.
Well that about wraps it up for this series looking at the RJ45 connections on our cameras,
examining these pinout diagrams, and learning how to fix your camera's Ethernet connection.
I hope you learned something, I hope this was helpful for you. If you liked this video,
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