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hi, i'm searching for reliable outdoor pir, the area to protect is 30meters by 2 meters wide, something like ernitec eagle pir 045H would be great (i need heathing too) if you have any other recommandations... thanks in advance Michael

thx for the info, do you know how many false alarm there is?

some cats & dogs may walk thru the detection area, i plan to connect those pirs to my dvr, when they will be activated the dvr will send a signal to the alarm board and the surveillance platform will connect to the cctv system to check if there is an intruder, so i need a near 0 false alarm pir, do you think that it is possible? i mean, if there is an alarm everynight the surveillance platform will become crazy....

i checked optex pirs, the opm303 seems to be the one for me http://www.optex-europe.com/Site/downloads/OPM-3020_303(1).pdf anyone have experience with this one?

hi, i'm currently testing 2 mobotix cams (m22 & m12 wich is the new version of m10 with higher frame rate) here are some pix: those cams don't use bandwith unless there is motion detected, the storage is made on a NAS server more info about those cams here: mobotix.com

hi, i'm definitivly satisfied by the product so i'll keep them, the two cams are used to identify persons on critical points of a sensible bulding, the actual position might be the final ones, i'm using the corporation LAN, as the bandwith consumption is very low

bandwith tests in live mode with audio channel mx 22 / 10 ips / mega / jpeg 90% / BW: max transfert rate : 445kb/s average transfert rate: 350kb/s mx 22 / 4 ips / mega / jpeg 70% / BW: max transfert rate : 180kb/s average transfert rate: 130kb/s

hi, public prices are available here: http://www.mobotix.com/eng/file/32577/mx_cam-overview_us_200.pdf i'm using an mx-22-m (means one lens) - secure (means that it is used for security application : recording on lan is possible) - night (means BW sensor) and an mx-12-d (means 2 lens) - secure - Dnight (means 1 color sensor and 1 BW sensor) you can combine diffrent lens on the m12, like a zoom and a wide angle lens, some demo cams are availble here: http://www.digitaalhekwerk.nl/Hoofdzaken/index.html the best quote i had was a 10% discount on public price, it's quite difficult to open an account @ mobotix, if you find better prices kindly let me know distributors can be found here: http://www.mobotix.com/eng/partners/mobotix_partners concerning the the file size here is the chart: i'm using 70% quality more technical info here: http://www.mobotix.com/eng/technology

original size picture with huge backlight http://ourmusicmixes.com/fichier.jpg

more pix: M12 both lens view with night improvement and shutter @ 1/10 for the color sensor M22 with night improvement and shutter @ 1/30

hello rory, not sure i understood your question, for live view you can either go thru the camera page or use the mobotix mxviewer software, it allows to see for example the 2 cams live with the latest events, you can browse and play events with the software (with the audio channel, you can also send audio to the camra if you have a microphone) many layout are configurable, you can monitor up to 30 cams at cif resolution: you can also set multi view via the camera page (with different cams from your LAN) there are many many extra features, have a quick look to mobotix website

hi, i got an uf300 with psu for sale, included: 750 & 850 nm filters, 30 & flood lens + 2 bulbs the unit has been used since february 2006 (approx 10hours/days) please make an offer cheers Michael

hi, i just finished to install some cams at home, i got a problem, times to times the picture goes up and own as on the following file: http://www.ourmusicmixes.com/upanddown.avi do you know where it can come from? thx in advance Michael

lil' movie from this cam here: http://www.ourmusicmixes.com/600tvlbullet.avi

hello, first of all, i'm sorry for my poor english i need some help to correctly configure a bosch ltc0495 to catch licence plates, here is a capture : the picture is saturated and the plate isn't correctly identifiable i was previously using a ltc 0455 and the capture were better: as there are too many parameters in this camera i'm totaly lost and your help would be really appreciated i'd like to know if i should force the camera in colorr mode & what would be the best parameters for alc, sens up, gain, xf dinion... thanks in advance

rory, 50meters = 164 feet thanks for your help ! if you need extra info, feel free to ask cheers

hi, forgot the led illuminators, i tried many of them and no one can beat a lamp, you may check my experience here: http://www.cctvforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=37109

hi guys, here is the derewent UF300 info page: http://www.derwentcctv.com/uf300.asp check also this chart to compare illumination distances: http://www.infrarouge.biz/images/distance_chart_big.gif i'm using the 730nm with a 30° beam (apprx 70meters of illumination) the system is "quite cheap" approx 1000€ for all the components an ltc0495 : 500€ a 5-50lens : 70€ a housing : 100€ an uf300 (a demo unit with power supply) : 400€ the great thing is that the camera is 50meters far from the capture area, and daytime picture is also great: the bads things: *the picture i quite dark before the color/mono swich *if the plate is non reflective, i can't see it: *i just can see the plate, if a bad guys is enterring the parking i can't see him unless he is wearing clothes with reflective bands... (but i have 4 other cams for that) *the bulb had a life time of 3500hours and it cost approx 60€ to replace it

after some months trying to achieve the best capture, i finally bought an uf300 and here is the result: the plate is perfectly identifiable even when it's raining or snowing the ltc0495 have a special Ir contrats function wich filter normal lighting, well i guess i'm close to the REG result settings: shutter: fixed @ 1/100 agc fixed @ 0db sensup off blc off alc 0 alc peak/average +15 autoblack on (-20) contour + 5 dnr off xf dyn off ir contrat echanced

yes i know that i have a big light problem, i don't want to use an ir light 'cause it's too expensive, i'd like to change my halogene spot which have a wide and not really powerfull beam with a narrow powerful light, i don't know exactly what to use

well this kind of camera is quite expensive and i'm not sure that it could work at long distances like in my configuration i got a new shot, i guess it's the best one, the halogen spot didn't work due to the snow and the plate still identifiable

But, for low light wide surveillance the ltc0495 is good! this was with the 0455: and this is with the 0495:

well i guess i'll stop on this result: settings are: shutter: fixed @ 1/100 (got motion blur under) agc fixed @ +15db (too dark under, too much noise above) sensup off blc off alc +15 alc peak/average +15 color mode forced (better result) autoblack on (+5) (better result, especially when it's snowing) contour + 5 (increase the sharpness) dnr off xf dyn mid well finally i would not recommand this camera.... the ltc 0455 gave nearly the same results for half the price

i tried sens up but the image is blurred anyway let's see the result of tonight test, have a good rest rory & thx again for your help

agc can be selected, if i put it off, the picture is totally dark, i've setted this paramter to auto agc, max 20db