AudioControl BVD-10, BVR-10 Installation And Operation Manual
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Installation and
Operation Manual
BVD-10
Cat-5 Balanced Video/Audio Driver
BVR-10
Cat-5 Balanced Video/Audio Receiver
hank you for choosing AudioControl for your video
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distribution needs. You are installing one of the most
innovative custom installation products available. These
units will make any video distribution system perform at its
best by using the highest quality active circuitry , instead of
lower performance passive systems.
Please take a moment to read through this manual before
you charge off into the installation.
Balanced Video Series
• Allows Simple Distribution of High-Quality Video and Audio
up to 1000 feet (305 meters)
• Active-Balanced Circuitry For Superior Signal Quality
• Easily Installs with Inexpensive Cat-5 UTP Wiring
• Automatically Adapts Composite to S-Video Signals
• Video Equalization and Gain for Cable Compensation
• Compatible with Composite, S-Video and Component Video
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The Most Important Instruction Of All
FILL OUT AND SEND IN THE WARRANTY CARD!
Also, save the invoice or sales slip as proof of purchase.
These actions will protect this investment and help prove
that such a handy piece of audio equipment was really in the
system.
BEFORE YOU BEGIN
For the best product performance and the lowest use of
pain-killers, nothing is better than a well-planned professional system installation. Before you start pulling wires,
sketch out a full layout of the complete system. This will
help plan the wire routing and minimize the “gotchas” later
on. Happy installing.
Installation Notes
Mounting The BVD-10 / BVR-10
The small size and low power draw of these units allow
them to be mounted in almost any dry indoor location. Pick
mounting locations close to the units that will be connected
to the BVD-10 or BVR-10. This keeps the unbalanced
audio and video signal cables as short as possible since they
are more susceptible to noise pickup than the balanced Cat5 cables. There is no heat build-up problem, so it is okay to
put the BVD-10/BVR-10 in a closed area. Just remember
you need to at least be able to reach the units.
Important Note: When routing the 24 volt AC
power wiring from the wall plug transformer; make
certain that you do not run the power wiring near or
parallel to the signal cables. You may pick up AC hum.
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Wiring The System
Signal Wiring
The BVD-10 / BVR-10 system operates using standard
unshielded twisted-pair (UTP) Category 5 wiring. Good
wiring practices will minimize the chance of any noise
pickup.
• Do not run the signal cables parallel to AC power
wiring.
• If you need to cross over a power wire, try to do it at
right-angles.
• Keep the signal wiring as far as possible from any noise
sources such as lighting power supplies, fluorescent
lights, motors, etc.
Grounding
If you use a shielded Cat-5 cable, then you need to be
careful about ground loops. In some instances it is necessary
to only connect the shield at the receive end of the balanced
line and NOT on the other end. This provides a ground path
for noise picked up by the shield, but it prevents a continuous
signal ground path between the source and destination units.
Power Wiring
Important Note: Do not connect the
power supply to the ground terminal.
The BVD-10 and BVR-10 operate
from a 24 volt AC wall plug transformer. There is no polarity on the
power wiring from the transformer so it
can connect either way to the connector
block on the unit. The power draw is
very low on these units (each unit draws
approximately 50 milliamps) so you can
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connected
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tap the supply from another 24 VAC transformer if it’s
handy .
Handy Tip: For remote applications the BVD-10 and
BVR-10 will work very well from a 12 volt battery
supply . There is a small decrease in the maximum audio
signal level headroom, but the video performance is
unaffected by the reduced supply voltage.
Cat-5 Wiring
The RJ-45 connection on the BVD-10 and BVR-10
conform to the EIA-568B standard. This is the same Cat-5
cable wiring standard that a typical
computer network utilizes. You can
use any existing 10/100Base-T
network cabling and patch bays in an
installation as long as it does not run
through a router or hub. The Cat-5
wiring must run directly from the
BVD-10 to the BVR-10.
While the Active-Balanced video
components are designed to operate
with full-quality video on up to 1000
feet of CAT-5 wiring, it is possible
RJ-45 connector
with wires
to get a very usable image up to
2000 feet away . There will be a slight softening to the
picture, but many people would not even notice this. If you
require a high-quality image on an extended (over 1000
feet) run, then you should use a second pair of BVD-10/
BVR-10 as a repeater . This will provide the additional
signal gain and cable compensation for the extra CAT-5
wiring.
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Video Wiring
The BVD-10 and BVR-10 are capable of extending two
video channels. This can be two separate composite video
signals OR one S-video signal. The reason you are limited
to one S-video signal is that it is actually comprised of two
video signals; the Chroma and the Luminance. In applications where you need to
extend a component video
signal, you may use the RCA
video inputs on two pairs of
BVD/R. This gives you the 3
channels of video required
(plus a spare).
Important Note: You cannot simultaneously use the
Composite and S-video connectors on either unit.
The BVD-10 and BVR-10 automatically adapt a composite video input on
the BVD-10 to an
S-video output on
the BVR-10 (or
vice versa). T o use this
feature, connect the composite video signal to Input 1
on the BVD-10 and connect
to the S-video output on the
BVR-10.
Video connectors on BVD/R
Installation Note: The com-
posite to S-Video feature does not
function on Video Input #2.
Adapting composite to S-video
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System Examples
Extending the output of a high-end video gaming system
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