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i s'pose with systems like mine, if we are out and someone wants to break in, they just need to wear a mask. i mainly did it as a hobby system but if you really want to catch them, put discrete hidden cams in. you can get cameras that look like PIRs, if they don't know they are being watched, they are less likely to cover up!

i setup my home system from scratch and i'm only 14 so it is not hard to do! i have 2 cameras in our alley, one in the bike shed, one in the porch, one looking at the front gate, two looking at the road (incase anyone gets run over again, its a busy road and there have been a couple of incidents), one looking at the back gate, one looking at the back door and two monitoring the garden. i also have two ptz's on the roof, one is so we can zoom in on the car when its parked, the other is to zoom in on the park next to us because kids always set fireworks off (this is probabky not legal but the police asked for footage, not for us to take it down) i also have a pir and sounder in the shed, door contacts on all doors, glass smash sensors on all windows, pirs in all hallways, sounders at doors and main hallway and some vibration sensors inside some cameras (like the ones in the alley) oh, and a sounder on the side of the shed. if the shed gets broken into, the alarm goes off in the house and shed and alley, an auto texter (made by me) texts me and my dad that the shed alarms have activated, the cctv camera in the shed goes from recording at 0.5fps to 10fps. the cable comes back to the house in a metal conduit pipe. if somehow it got cut, the videoloss/tamper alarm would sound all the sounders in the house, the shed would not have a hold off signal so the sounders in there would activate too! (and we get a text) if someone throws a brick at a camera again during the day all the alarms go off and the camera that has been hit goes into alarm. if its hit during the night, only the alley sounder activates. (but we get a text) its a pretty complex system and i am proud of it. most of the stuff in it is from ebay. most of the cameras, sounders, pirs, etc are all second hand! my cameras cost me between £20 and £45 each so second hand is what i'd reccomend! i documented my whole system and put it on youtube but my account got terminated because someone flagged every single one of my vids. i have a new one but it needs time to grow. you can find it here: http://www.youtube.com/user/flamesecureUK

i am powering the cameras from a 12v psu on the wall tht has battery backup (the kind used in security doors) the blauns are wired correctly, i have just checked

hi. this is my first post on here so i'll start by introducing myself. my name is luke, i live in manchester, england. i have been planning and installing a cctv system in my home for a while now bit by bit and hope to be an installer/engineer one day. i have just out two cctv cameras in my bike shed. i am using a power supply in the shed and a cat5 cable with blauns for video and PIR connection. both of the cameras have interference. on one camera (cam 2) it looks like in the olden days (before digital tv) if your Ariel was off you got a snowy picture. and on the other camera (cam 3) it has lines running through slowly moving down (a bit like the affects they use in the movies) the thing is that when i first installed camera 2 and 3 the picture was fine. i cant remember 3 being a problem but can not be sure but i know for a fact cam2 was crystal clear. its not the cameras. i have tested them separately so it must be interference on the cable. what should i do to resolve this? i would attatch pictures but the monitor is a crt and my camera will not take pictures of it and the software is too slow it does not show the interference properly. any help would be amazing. thanks - luke

cameras: you can get high quality used cameras from ebay! (i am listing 3 later) or brand new not so good ones from china! (via ebay) dvr: once again. good second hand one from ebay, or cheap not so good brand new one from china. OR get a dvr card for your pc! (about £20 from ebay) and use you pc as a dvr! i have gotten ALL my cameras from ebay. some new crappy china ones for areas where quality is not that important and i have gotten second hand really high quality cams for £30!! if you want the link to the cameras i am selling pm me! power supply's: you guessed it, EBAY or any electrical shop. hope this helps! - luke