chipman

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This is my First Design and first install Have clients for 3 more if...this one goes right.I have several questions and it seems the people on this board are truly the experts. I sure would appreciate any advice from the experts. This home has 3 entrances all are covered and all camera sites are approx. 4 to 6 ft from the doors. Should the cameras be facing the door, sideways, or facing the person at the door? Which type lens would be best for this application? Does this camera sound like a good match: Outdoor night vision, 20m IR distance, Standard with 3.6 mm lens and 6mm Lens Optional, adopt the third generation of IR LED array technology with single LED Array light. High resolution IR night vision effect, long life time. 1/3" Sony Effio Color CCD, 650 / 700TVL, OSD There are also 3 outdoor drive way cameras to be mounted on the home facing a wide courtyard and drive way questions.... Should I have one camera capture a wide shot of the courtyard approx 40 ft wide? Then one camera as more of a close up of where the driveway or parking are is? Then one down the approach. Could you please advise on the lenses for these set ups? Would this camera be a good fit: 0 Lux with 8/12/16/ 25 mm Lens optional, standard 25m CS Fixed Lens, 18 Pcs ?8 big IR LEDs at two side, 24 pcs ?5 and 12pcs ?8 LEDs, 80M IR Distance, DC12V, Silver Color housing. 1/3" Sony Effio Color CCD, 650 / 700TVL, OSD Now for indoors most hallways and areas are approx 20 ft wide and 15 ft from the area. Could you please advise on the lens for this? Do you feel this should be a dome camera? Would this camera be a good fit: 4" IR IR Camera, 0. Lux/F1.2 ( 3.6, 4, 6 mm lens for optional ), 24pcs 5 LEDs 1/3" Sony Effio Color CCD, 650 / 700TVL The DVR for this system is: 16 Channel DHZ Series Containing 4 Pcs HDD, Digital Zoom, 8 channel Realtime or 16 channel half realtime D1 Resolution real-time playback 1. H.264 compression format 2. Mobile monitoring, support iPhone, Blackberry, Android,windows Mobile and Symbian. 3. New 3G function ( HUAWEI 3G modem ), IE, Web client, and CMS monitoring, send Email when alarm. 4.Free DDNS bound, simple to operate, support UPNP(Universal Plug and Play), no need to do complicated IP forwarding. 5.Digital zoom function on both preview and playback mode. 6. 8 CH Audio and video D1 real-time record , 8 CH real-time play back 7. 8 CH video inputs, 1CH monitor output, 1CH spot monitor output, 1CH VGA output, 1CH HDMI output(1920*1080) 8. 8 CH audio inputs, 1CH audio output 9. High quality image, brightness, contrast, sharpness and color adjustable for each channel 10. Support video sequence display; Display modes PIP, FULL, QUAD, 8 SPLIT 11. Recording modes always recording, manual recording, schedule recording, sensor recording and motion recording. Searching modes time/date searching, event searching, urgent searching 12. Support fast forward and rewind x2, x4, x6, support jog-shuttle operation Back up modes network backup, USB back up Support RS-485 PTZ control(speed dome camera), and preset position operation 13. Support 4 SATA port HDD, 8 CH alarm inputs, 2CH alarm output. Multiplex operation live/recording/playback/network can be operated at the same time Thank you for any and all help and advise on this install. I sure hope I can get some input on this install. Thanks in advance for any input. Chipman

I am also designing my first cctv system. I have 3 other potential clients once I get this one done. I would stay away from Costco systems decent quality but very standard and structured sounds like you need a little more custom set up like myself. I will be bringing my camera's in from a supplier I have been communicating with in China for a long time. More high end equipment but very reasonable price. Not cheap but appears a little better Quality. I will keep you posted. I will be posting my first project here hopefully we will both get a response and some help. Good luck with your system. Chipman