Will a video signal induce noise into a system ?

Me-262 · Post by **Me-262** » Tue Apr 21, 2009 7:10 pm

I'm putting Nav in the car and installing a rear view camera. I need to run a single RCA cable to feed the video up front to the Nav unit. Will a video cable induce noise into a system ? Should I run it with the power wires or does it matter if I run them next to the audio RCA cables ?

Post by **stipud** » Tue Apr 21, 2009 7:54 pm

I can't see it causing a problem.

ProperID · Post by **ProperID** » Tue Apr 28, 2009 11:25 am

I've never heard of the video cable causing the noise, but I have had 'noise' enter into my video cables before (seen as lines/static on the screen), so I have always treated my video RCAs like my audio RCAs and kept them away from the power cables. Currently my rear-view camera RCA cable is run pretty close to my power wires at 1 point and the image is pretty noisy, but I attribute that to the quality of the camera. Since it's just a rear image I don't worry about the quality too much (still looks good enough to use), so I'm in no rush to re-route that RCA.

Post by **ttocs** » Tue Apr 28, 2009 7:04 pm

not a problem

oldskoolmseriesfan · Post by **oldskoolmseriesfan** » Tue Apr 28, 2009 7:09 pm

ProperID wrote:I've never heard of the video cable causing the noise, but I have had 'noise' enter into my video cables before (seen as lines/static on the screen), so I have always treated my video RCAs like my audio RCAs and kept them away from the power cables. Currently my rear-view camera RCA cable is run pretty close to my power wires at 1 point and the image is pretty noisy, but I attribute that to the quality of the camera. Since it's just a rear image I don't worry about the quality too much (still looks good enough to use), so I'm in no rush to re-route that RCA.

I would treat all the cables the same. Audio and Video cables together, power ground together and speaker cable together, 3 seperate paths, my .02cents.