DC voltage for GE security camera

Do you have a bench (adjustable) power supply? Connect the camera to a monitor and slowly crank up the voltage until the picture locks and looks OK. If this happens at say 5 volts, then you can assume it is designed for

IME most things survive reverse polarity. Consider the people who install them and you'll see why.

On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 16:42:11 -0400, Rick put finger to keyboard and composed:

If there is continuity between a particular terminal of the DC plug and the ground terminal of your AV outputs, then that would probably be your negative supply pin.

- Franc Zabkar

Tnaks Franc - great idea. Will check it out.

Rick

Hi Rick...

Google this and you come up with many hits, some of which may be helpful...

ge security camera power supply

Take care.

Ken

Hi Ken

I googled my buns off before bringing it here. When I used the camera model number I found other people looking for the same information - but no answer. When I go more generic with the search you suggested I come up with high end GE security camera systems that use 12VDC supplies. But this ain't a high end camera so I'm a little wary deducing that all GE cameras use 12V supplies. It *might*, but all the non GE CCD cameras I've seen in catalogs use 6V or less power power supplies.

Short of someone popping up who has the monitor used with these cameras that provides power for them it looks like I'm gonna have to figure out how to crack the case to solve this.

Rick

I bought one of these, and spent five (scary!) minutes trying voltages with an old PC power supply. The red plug is power, 12VDC, negative on the outside, running about 50mA. The yellow plug is ordinary NTSC component video. The white plug is analog audio, but of course you should check your laws before recording audio along with video! All three plugs' grounds are tied together directly, so do make sure your power supply, audio, and video equipment share a ground.

The GE SmartHome Video (GESECCTVBWC) are nice little cameras, and for the price, the picture's pretty darn good. They do nicely in the dark, too, although their 5 infrared LEDs do spill some into the visible red, and without a diffuser (even a piece of tape!) tend to give a sort of "flashlight effect" to the image.