Power & Accessories

Power supplies, UPS units, cables, adapters and the small parts that installations depend on. Power is the component most often under-specified in a CCTV or networking install, and it is the one that causes the most confusing faults: an undersized supply feeding six cameras will work at night and drop one or two of them when the infrared illuminators all switch on at once, which looks like a camera fault and is not. The rule of thumb is to add up the current draw of everything on a supply and then add half again. For a system that must keep recording through load-shedding, a UPS on the recorder and the router is worth more than one on the cameras: a recorder that loses power mid-write can corrupt the footage you needed. Every power product here lists its output voltage, current rating and connector type, so it can be matched against the devices it will feed rather than guessed at.