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my new camera arrived from HK. http://www.hobbyking.com/hobbyking/stor ... duct=64501
EzCap http://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B004IRE ... ge_o00_s00
baluns http://www.pimfg.com/Product-Detail/NVA-700-WH-YL

Mini CMOS FPV Camera 520TVL 120deg Field Of Vision 0.008LUX 17x17x24mm (NTSC) To make sure everything works, I just used electrical tape for now. I started by cutting one end off an old rca cord. It has two wires; an inner, which is connected to signal/camera yellow and an outer, which is connected to ground/camera black.
Then I connected camera-plug ground/black to battery ground/black. And finally, camera power/red to battery power/red, adding a switch to make testing easier.
The yellow rca plug will plug into one balun, run down cat5 to a surface balun, and then plug into an EzCap connected to my laptop.

Here's a quick video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxt93Fh ... e=youtu.be

Nice! What software do u use for screen capture?

Ezcap comes with it's own software for capturing and editing, though I have not tried editing yet. Just press record on the screen and it starts recording. The ezcap also has a button on it for taking screen shots. So far I like the ezcap, now to mount the camera on a pan/tilt.

Looks Great!
So how does the camera perform in darker conditions?

That does look good. It didn't look like 120 deg to me, but I'm sure it's accurate.

Thanks for the post.

Lost Bob,
I am currently looking for a wired fpv camera setup, and yours seems to fit the bill. I know nothing whatever about this however, and I would like to know something. My rov is in a 2" pvc hull, that is about eleven inches long. What part of the camera setup in your pictures, is actually in the rov? The size and weight matters a ton here for me.