The invention discloses a cabinet used for installing a
power transmission line image monitoring terminal. The cabinet includes an upper cover, an inner cover, and a bottom box, the upper cover is made of an insulating material, and the inner cover and the bottom box are made of
metal materials; the bottom of the inner cover is sealingly connected with an opening of the upper end of the bottom box, so that a sealed chamber for mounting the image monitoring terminal is formed in the bottom box; the inner cover is provided with an
equipotential contact sheet and at least one main conducting linefastener used for locking the cabinet on a
power transmission conducting line; one end of the
equipotential contact sheet is embedded in the inner cover and protrudes into the sealed chamber, and theother end extends toward the
power transmission conducting line and can be in contact with the power transmission conducting line, so that the
equipotential contact sheet can be used for connecting the power transmission conducting line with a ground wire of the image monitoring terminal, and so, the image monitoring terminal is equipotential with the power transmission conducting line; and a connection between the equipotential contact sheet and the inner cover is sealed. The invention also discloses an installation method of the power
transmission line image monitoring terminal. The cabinetand the installation method solve the technical problems that installation is inconvenient and unsafe, and protection of monitoring terminals is poor in the prior art.