Using the Jameco Kitpro CJKIT-20808 with a Bescor Motorized Pan & Tilt Head

The Jameco Kitpro CJKIT-20808 Surveillance Camera Pan & Tilt Decoder Kit Assembled found on EBay allows you to interface a surveillance camera system Pan and Tilt capability to the outside world. 

An example of this is using the Jameco CJKIT-20808 board to interface to a Bescor Motorized Pan & Tilt Head with Power supply and Extension Cord Kit. 

Bescor Motorized Pan & Tilt Head

The Bescor Motorized Pan & Tilt Head is a very capable Pan & Tilt device and according to the description can support payloads up to 6 lbs. It has a Remote Socket that is used with a remote control, but for our purposes we will use it to interface it with a surveillance camera system.

Note: although it’s pretty safe to control the Bescor Motorized Pan & Tilt Head using the method described in this blog, this blogger still accepts no responsibility for damage to your equipment.

Wiring the Pan-Tilt-Zoom (PTZ) decoder to the Bescor Motorized Pan & Tilt Head is easy, all you need is a 7 pin DIN connector and some wire and cable. Here is a picture of the wiring I did connecting the Bescor to the Jameco CJKIT-20808 PTZ Decoder board (note: the white wires are jumpers connecting the commons together.) 

The diagram below shows how to connect the wiring to the PTZ decoder and Remote Socket connector. The white common wire is replaced by the purple colored wire in the diagram below:  

The red jumper is for the speed control. Jumping these two connections gives the max speed control. That’s it! Plug the connector into the Remote Socket of the Bescor Motorized Pan & Tilt Head and place the mode switch into the “M” or manual position and turn it on.

Connect the wires from the RS485 connector on the Jameco CJKIT-20808 PTZ Decoder board to your surveillance camera system and make sure the address, protocol and baud rates of the two devices match. Now you can now control the motion of the Bescor Motorized Pan & Tilt from the Pan and Tilt controls of your surveillance camera system.