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  3. Posted

    Seeing what kind of interest there is for one of these. I still have the original box, I *should* still have the manual that came with it. I also still have the "dongle" that plugs inside the camera that allows you to change settings, focus, etc.

     

    I can also throw in a IR Illuminator if interested.

     

    $100 Shipped (US) / Best offers considered

     

    Some youtube vids of it in action:

     

    Hurricane Irene:

     

    Day / Night Changeover:

     

    Video Captured Today:

  5. Posted

    I always hear that SSDs have a limited write capacity. With the amount of writing a DVR/NVR system will be doing, I'd lean towards the traditional hard drive. If write speed is a factor, consider a RAID 5 or 6 system, which will provide a higher write speed as well as redundency.

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    The white illuminators in the picture are re-purposed halogen flood lights (~$25 in parts ea).

     

     

    I also built my own out of a busted halogen work light. I used 96 LEDs w/ 33 ohm resistors. I went to the low end of the forward voltage, so they would last. It is no where near as bright as what you had. I have 200 loose LEDs waiting for when I have the patience to build another one. This time stepping up the voltage a tenth or 2.

  9. Posted

    How bright is your flood lighting? The second image isn't much use, since you are supplementing the light with IR.

     

    2 X 100 Watts I think?

     

    Here is the changeover from day to night:

     

     

    Changeover from IR to Floodlighting:

     

     

    IR to No IR: (yeah there's some noise there)

     

  11. Posted

    I don't have any low light color images of my VCM-24VF, I have these that are at night, one with flood lighting, and the other with IR lighting. Mine seems to do ok in low light color scenarios.

     

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    Edit: Oh, and default factory settings as well.

  12. Posted

    Can anyone recommend a good 3g wireless router

    What kind of interface?

     

    I've used a Kyocera that had a PCMCIA slot that you put the aircard in. I think they came out with a new model that was compatible with USB and Express Card type air cards. It didn't have a whole lot of range, but then again it was designed for mobile applications.

     

    If you could use the Kyocera, and have a PCMCIA type air card - PM me. I might even still have the air card - usable on the Sprint network.

  13. Posted

    Sitting here at work watching them on my phone, looks good enough to me on the small screen. I think I'm sold. I'm looking at the Qvis Apollo HD 8 or 16.

     

    Thanks!

    Also I had to reupload a couple hurricane videos as the previous encoding I did with AviDemux along with Youtube's conversion to FLV caused the final frame rate of the video to drop drastically. I only did that with a couple of the last ones I uploaded as I noticed it with them, especially the color video and I didnt edit all with AviDemux. So not sure if the rest are all exactly 7fps or not, hard to tell, they may actually have ended up being a little less. But I think its close enough. 30fps D1 is nice, but comes with a price most applications dont need. I even have a couple cameras set to 7fps CIF, such as a front door, and a small gate area which is only used to watch dogs eat.

     

    I think the one I saw that sold me was one that was titled something like "______ switching to Infrared". I guess it was you in there towards the end. I was trying to see if there was any blurryness, but the picture was pretty crisp considering. Only with the quick moving stuff in one of the hurricane vids did it seem pretty choppy.

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    I think I've chose what I'm going to get. I guess what I'm looking for is to see if anyone has a video @ 7FPS. The particular unit I'm looking at produces that frame rate, and I want to see if that will work for me.

     

    Thanks.

    check out the CCTV videos on my hurricane thread, all 7fps.

    viewtopic.php?f=14&t=26844&p=164275#p164275

     

    also this one

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3S-e12FmVAk

     

    Sitting here at work watching them on my phone, looks good enough to me on the small screen. I think I'm sold. I'm looking at the Qvis Apollo HD 8 or 16.

     

    Thanks!

  16. Posted

    Ok so now its in the US .. anyone on the East coast being affected?

    If it hits NY City even with the evacuations it could still be devastating not just to the US but to the world.

     

    It got us - Virginia. Loads of rain, and high winds. Power stayed on pretty much the whole time. Only after it was finished did the power go out. Internet/Cable/Phone still out. I put a few videos on the big video site, search my user name here.

  18. Posted

    I'll tell ya what I did.

     

    I got annoyed at the consumer grade routers, and that they did not have a lot of features. I tried DD-WRT and even that was not (powerful) enough to do what I wanted it to do. I had a Mini ITX computer that I had built to keep in the truck way back when I was a truck driver. I performed a fresh install of Ubuntu Server on it, complete with all of the programs needed to make a router out of it. There is a guide floating around somewhere that I followed to do this. I installed webmin on it, that way I can open, close, and forward ports with ease. Pretty much no limit for forwarding, etc. I also use it as my webserver with a few domains hosted on it. I added Wifi by taking the DHCP duties done by the previous router and just made it an access point. If you aren't that Linux knowledgeable, this isn't a route to consider, but hopefully it will help someone.

     

    Some may consider it a bit expensive but for a rock solid router (my uptime as of now is up 129 days, 15:00 hours) it's hard to beat.

  20. Posted

    I've got the contact information of a CNB reseller here in The Netherlands, I requested a price for two CNB VBM-24VF and two wall mounts..

    They don't have the VBM-24VF but they do have the LCM-21VF (Same camera? But with IR?).

     

    Now get this: the price? €730,- (around $1.050,-)!

     

    I have checked out some US based webshops, they can ship the products around the world for half that price!

    Am I missing something or are they seriously overcharging for these cameras?

     

    Edit:

    Apologies, ment to send as PM.

  21. Posted

    Still need a way to switch the video from 2 inputs to 1 video output.

    Some kind of module video switcher or something.

    I searched before and was hard to find anything that could fit in a housing.

     

    Back in the day we had this thing on the back of the TV. You would slide it one direction to play Atari or watch something from the VCR, or watch TV from the antenna. Someone with proper electronics knowledge could probably build a "solid state" version of that.

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