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Old 03-30-2015, 07:17 AM
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Reducing crosstalk on camera signals?

Maybe the infinite minds around here have an idea for this scenario-

Ever see those CCTV cables that have Audio/Video/Power all in one jacket? Well, I had this cheapskate idea to use a y-adapter on the power connector and try to run two cameras on from it. One using the "video" cable for video, and the other using the "Audio" cable for video. Well, it almost worked, but the signals cross-talk too bad (you can see rainbow images of the other camera scrolling across the opposite cameras monitor). This cable shares a ground, and it's very thin and poorly shielded. It runs a single camera great, but is there any way I can make this work for 2?

This is a 100ft cable.

I don't know if it's a doomed idea because of the shared ground, or if there's any kind of isolation transformer tricks I can use, etc. I just wanted to throw this out here and see if any of you VK geniuses have any ideas.
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