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Just looking at the Honeywell ACC334TPX now that you mentioned the White Inversion. Need to follow up on that one. Thanks

To be more honest about the length of the Cat5e run, I would probably say it was more likely around 100' ( is that about 30 meters give or take a meter?), as I was up in an attic crawlspace above the store. I believe the original cable installer was putting in cable for the stores' PC from some sort of wireless hub. Not sure about that. I had to give it a shot, since I told them I could get 1 camera up before Monday. Unfortunately for me, the crawl space did not go the length of the store, so I couldn't run the RG59 I brought with me. I was actually amazed it worked. Now, for a longer run, I would have absolutely no idea. A friend of mine took me on a tour of a local manufacturing plant to show me their new camera setup recently. We went to the Security Guard "shack" to see what they watch. The video looked terrible to me, but I was told it was over a mile of older cat5 because the pull was not all new wire.

Since I have never used Video Baluns on any install, only coax, I have now run into a job where the previous installer ran Cat5e cable to where I need to put the cameras (lucky me?). About 300 feet away from the DVR. My question is the "setup" part. "Active", "Passive" , etc. Basically, I need to transmit the video from a DVR. Don't run into this too often, maybe only 2nd time, but I need someone who uses these baluns to recommend to me, how to do this over the Cat5e. All wires on the Cat5e in question are empty, never terminated. Thanks!

Just got back from wiring my "home made" balun. The small store is close to me, just a few minutes away. Since it is Saturday, I had to get at least one camera wired in. Hate to mention it, but I thought I would give it a shot..........and it worked!! I found some old cable that I used to use, one of those "premade" cables with "mini-coax" on one end. "Siamese" cable to be more specific. I cut the BNC ends off about 12" back, and took them with me. I opened up the Cat5e, and used the Blue/White pair ( really didn't make a difference, I guess). I used a butt splice to attach the 12" piece of small cable (pretty bad, I know) at both ends. Hey!! It worked!! Pretty "hokey" but it worked for now. Have to look at this again soon. Thanks everyone, I almost gave up on this until Monday!!

In fact, I have to take my daughter over to Wally world tomorrow to look for a new DVD player. I will look and try to remember where I got the lockbox. I know it was not designed for a DVR, but, from what I remember, it fit an Avermedia perfect, expect for me adding a small cooling fan and welding 4 small tabs onto the back of the housing. I actually remember finding it by accident, in the sporting goods section (I think). Will post name when I find it again.

Difference between "active " and "passive". ??? I understand the principle of the words, but does an "active" balun actually have transmission capabilities?? So I would need both if over 200'?

Hey, that's a tough question. Unfortunately, I run into that all the time since the majority of installs I do are residential.One reason I switched over to the smaller Avermedia DVR's. Most homeowners want to be able to access their DVR's just like their DVD players, VCR's , etc. with remote controls at their fingertips. The first time someone asked me about that, I built my own DVR "lockbox" for them. Took me way too much time to build, as I built it out of diamondplate mild steel, and had to mount it so that the IR from the remote control would still work, and had to put a fan in it, to keep it cool. I made more on that job than the camera install!! I did eventually find a box that would work at Walmart. Heavy duty, just had to install a 120vac fan and weld some "tabs" on the outside to mount to the wall. Someone could still pull it off, but it would take them quite awhile. You just need to remember that the DVR box needs to be kept "vented". Will try to remember what the manufacturer name is and post it.

Just go from the video out of your DVR, straight into the VCR input. VCR will be RCA jack, though. Sometimes easier to have double ended RCA cable, and use RCA/BNC adapter on the DVR side. This is why I love my Plextor TV-M402U hardware encoder for making video cd's easy. Takes only minutes. Also my Avermedia DVR's have USB 2.0 connection, which will copy to laptop hard drive, then to VCD via Windows Movie maker. Have made over 20 video CD's (that I can remember) for the local PD. Most from business owners machines.

Just for info, Tigerdirect has had their Seagate 500G hard drives on sale now for around $140/each. I use them often.

Just want to say we here in America are happy to see your English (UK)Marines home safely. They look so young, but I guess I did also when I was in the Army at 17. Nevermind the American/English press, those warriors did a great job! you should be proud of them.

My newest DVD player ($50) for home will play DIVX encoded movies, so should most newer DVD players. You can take the output from the DVR right to the Plextor Encoder ($50 Tigerdirect) with normal cable, and encode either to CDR or PC hard drive. Divx, I found out, compresses more than MPEG-4, and I love the playback in Divx. Putting all my home movies in Divx format . Can make a 10 minute video in Divx and put it on inexpensive CDR in half an hour.

I have built several PTZ units for friends/customers. I like the smaller Vicon units, namely the V3700 series. Built my own control panel also for them. I use Belden 9 conductor New Generation shielded cable in either 20 or 18 gage. Don't use the "autopan" part, as my panel builds are wireless, using relays inside to control the motor functions. Tied the pan common and the tilt common together inside. Buy 9-pin connectors for radio sets on Ebay, and convert them over. Need 5 wires for the PTZ, then use the others for powering the cameras. Found 12 channel RF board on Ebay to control all functions wireless. Put both 12vdc 9a power supply in panel, as well as 120va 24vac transformer. Panels take awhile to build, but the wireless RF controls can operate over 200 feet, as I have one panel in use , inside a friends' hay barn, that is around 200 feet from his house.

Right on! Those young Marines kept their cool and avoided a MAJOR incident. Your PM Blair , in my opinion as an American, is one of the most well-spoken and intelligent of all the worlds' leaders we have today. To diffuse a situation , like that could have been , sometimes takes as much backbone, as to get trigger-happy. Those young Marines were doing "smuggler duty" not "special ops" warfare. I applaud them for being there in the first place. I wish all of our young American Marines would be as lucky as those were, to come home one day.!!

I was told at the Avermedia Booth in Las Vegas, that the new model 1704 DVR will support IP cameras, and 4 channels of audio. I saw the model myself on display. I understood it will be available in May? if there are no problems.

If I end up having to butt splice a connection, which is not often, I will always use 3M shrink tubing on the splice, then keep that splice in a junction box. I also use the shrink tubing on my twist-on bnc connections for the RG59.

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Hey, I was just kidding about the "gas mask" goggles!! Wouldn't work, as your eyes cannot see through the IR filter glass. Welding helmet wouldn't work either. You somehow have to "see" the IR via a camera, as I could barely see the direct Sun , looking through a 900nm IR Filter. Welding glass blocks all light. I weld mild and Stainless steels all the time, so I have my share of Welding shades 9, through 12, lenses.

That is a personal preference. Firearms in the hands of law-abiding people are a threat to no one. King George of England was the main reason our Founding Fathers wrote the "right to keep and bear arms" in our Constitution. Wasn't the Magna Carta signed by your King, because he was held by the Knights with force? Albeit with swords, at the time, as firearms were not around then. Would love to see every Cuban wake up tomorrow morning with a rifle in the house. Free Enterprise would take about a week.

That definitely can't be good for the electronics to run that hot. Even with a mini-fan inside some of those housings, you still need to have a way for the hot/warm air to "vent". You need to see , somehow, if the housing(s) came with vents, but are blocked with fiberglass insulation, etc. Even the air above the ceiling/plenum must be exchanged regularly to reduce heat, smoke, etc. buildup.

I saw an Avermedia Mobile DVR at ISC West. I believe it was a 1304MB??Smaller, more compact, and MPEG-4 I believe.

I was told by the Avermedia Techs at ISC West, that their NV7000 series boards use Hardware Compression, versus the other boards they sell, which use software compression. I believe that this board can also use H.264. Not sure if they sell it on their website, or you have to purchase it elsewhere. Never purchased one, yet. Their display screens showed a lot of different options, as far as motion sensing, etc.

I hear it's the same way in North Korea, Iran, Mexico, France, etc. Would be funny to me, to see a Clint Eastwood , or John Wayne movie, without firearms. We grew up as kids seeing Roy Rogers and the Lone Ranger use firearms to help everyone. No one here would have dared arrest Roy Rogers for carrying a handgun!!

I guess you could make your own, for test purposes. Go to Ebay and purchase an old "military issue" gas mask (USA made preferred). Buy the 900nm ( or a different nm rating for test purposes) GLASS IR Filters, at least 80 mm in diameter to take the place of the eye pieces in the gas mask. In fact, I think I might try that myself!! My son, when he was in high school, used to buy the same gas masks on Ebay, paint them up, add fake hair, etc. and then sell them back on Ebay for over $100 each!!They were supposed to look like some band all the kids listened to.

I have 3 different DVR's running at my home, for test purposes. All different manufacturers. And ALL different codecs. Have to keep all 3 versions of the readers on my laptop, in order to playback any video. After seeing the new Avermedia DVR at ISC West, I think I am heading in that direction. The new model is 1704, and I was told they were already in mass production, due out in the next couple of months. MPEG-4 with a built-in web server and USB ports. No CD writer, but like I said before, I can take my laptop out, and with USB cable, access hard drive to find date/time info, watch it in individual hours of time, and make a short video to save directly to my laptops' hard drive. Plays back in Windows Media Player. Very "user friendly" operation to capture video. The new Avermedia 1704 also has 4 audio inputs from what I saw on Wednesday. Can't wait for this model to come out.

Just got home from Las Vegas this evening. 8 hour drive for me(at 80mph average ). Only went to the show yesterday (Wednesday). Thanks for the free beer Intellicam!! Stayed at the Stratosphere ,where someone swiped the battery out of my laptop while my bags were going from the valet to my room. Did see the new Avermedia DVR's, and the facial recognition company. Lots to see in just one day. Best show was David Copperfield on Monday night at the MGM. If anyone ever gets a chance to see him , you won't be disappointed.