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Thanks for the tips. I think I know a guy who could do the cable runs for me, just remembered him because I'm going to see him tonite. Even if he won't be able to do the runs for me, if he is busy, he can probably show me how real quick and I also might be able to borrow a cable stripper from him if he has an extra he can spare. -Chad

Rory, thanks for the tip, that was kinda going to be a secondary question I forgot to ask, what kind of BNC connectors, crimp, compression or twist on. I'll go ahead and order the cable and the BNC connectors and just sit down and practice till I get it right then start running new cable. Thanks, -Chad

I have a question for the pro installers out there. I am redoing the cctv setup at my work. The first thing I did was move the DVR to a spot where we could actually have a keyboard, mouse and monitor hooked up to it. Its a PC -Geovision DVR. Now the problem is, some of the cables won't reach to the new location. The important ones do so I'm not in a dire emergency. But I don't want to leave it this way for an extended time period. So, I was thinking of redoing the wiring anyway but I was going to get a small run of wire and practice with attaching the BNC connectors etc so I could get it right. Well I don't really have the time to practice now. So that is the only real problem I have, running the wire will be easy as its a warehouse enviroment so even running it over the offices is easy as we can just stand and walk on top of them. We also have a scissor lift so running the wire through the rest of the warehouse will also be easy. So, how hard is it to attach the BNC connectors? Should I call a local CCTV installer and have them do the rewire, and if I going to have them out to do that should I just buy cameras and have them install them also. I havn't purchased new cameras yet. I am going to be adding a few new cameras and replacing the old ones. I was mainly doing it myself as our site is not a hard install and I like tweeking and playing with this kind of stuff. I built and setup the Geovision DVR and it was fun, got a little frustrated with some minor things but I enjoyed it. Just the BNC cabling is kinda scary considering a have no practice. Thanks, -Chad

Hi, posting this here as I'm looking for some info on the cameras we have at my work. They are the following Panasonic WV-BP314 I found some info that looks like they have 570 horizontal lines of resolution, also that its a .08 LUX at F1.4. Now, thats all well and good but I know this camera has been discontinued. Are they too old or are they still a good camera. I just upgraded to a Geo GV-1480 and next I will be adding and/or replacing cameras, will probably add a few and replace a few if needed. Just wondering if newer cameras will heavily outperform these. I may keep these for general ovservation cameras and put in the new ones where we would need shots to actually try and be able to ID a person etc... Thanks for any help

OK, but now when its on the motion detect time span does it record anything if it doesn't sence motion. ie if it doesn't see anything moving it isn't recording, right? I want the system to record at like 1 FPS every camera no matter what all day everyday. Then when the system sences motion jump to like 25 or 30 FPS. We have a bit of people moving around during the day so I might tone it down a touch to just 25 FPS. Want to try and figure it out before I set it up wrong and it doesn't record anything. Thanks for the screen shot, that looks just like mine, I think mine is 8.01, I might update but probably don't need to. Also, on mine the box that says Frames/Sec.: SMART is greyed out and can't be checked.

Mine let me do FAT for the 10 GB partition I put the OS and stuff on, then created partitions on the drives and formatted those in Windows using NTFS. Also, quick question, just got the system up and running. Now, can you set the system to record at like 3 or 5 FPS around the clock but to bump up to say 20+ FPS when it detects motion? I can't seem to figure this one out, I would prefer the have something being recorded 24/7 at a timelaps setting and then jump to almost real time when motion is detected. I can see where you can choose one or the other it seems, just not what I'm trying to do. I have Geo 8. someting, can get the version number at work Tuesday. Thanks

I did the OS install today and it only gave me the option of formatting in NTFS or FAT. Didn't say FAT32. I will double check it in windows when I have a chance Friday if I have time. Anyway, thanks for all the help, hopefully it will be up and running and switched over sometime this weekend.

thanks, I considered getting the smallest drive I could find that was still nice to put the OS and geo software on but for some reason didn't, will go the route of making a 10 GB partition for the OS and geo and use the rest for video files, I went with 2 320 GB SATA drives so that should be enough space and if it isn't and I need more I still have room for atleast 1 drive probably more but if I need alot more space I may just add one of those new 750 GB Seagate drives just so I only have to add one more drive, that should be more than enough space, 1390 GB minus 10 GB partiton for OS. I also upgraded to the GV-1480 because the cost difference was so little when your talking about that much so I may really need the extra space now.

Another quick question for you guys. Will the following processor work for a system with a GV-1120 card. My other spec are all good just wondering as I saw that a 800mHz FSB is required for the combo cards and I just completely missed that. Its not a big deal to send it back and get the right one just some wasted time. Intel Pentium D 805 Smithfield 533MHz FSB 2 x 1MB L2 Cache LGA 775 Dual Core,EM64T Processor http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819116001 Thanks for all your help, CT

Thanks for the help, the info on the PC was exactly what I was looking for. I will probably look into building a PC for this project, that way I know exactly whats there and it won't have anything that isn't needed. Now, for the Geo cards you listed, you said on the first one the FPS is spread among all cameras, I'm assuming that this is the case for all the cards not just the first one. If that is the case then I think either a GV-650 or GV-800 would work great, especially with the Smart record or record on montion prioritizing the recording. Now I can move forward and start looking at the pricing for these boards. Also, anybody have advise on the cameras I posted above, are they suitable for now or will they show there age we we upgrade the DVR and have bad image quality, I couldn't really find any specs on them only that they are discontinued. Thanks

Also, some more quick info. The setup was installed originally by a local company, the equipment we got was used from a bank system that had upgraded. I checked one of the cameras and its a Panasonic WV-BP314 I did a Google search and can see that its been discontinued. Is this still an acceptable camera if used with a Geo setup or are they too old. The picture seems fine on what we have now so hopefully they are ok. We have 7 of these, didn't check all the model numbers as some are outside in protective cases. We also have 1 color camera that I can't find any info on. Its a NAVCO Model 4300. Any info on this one would be great. I am looking at upgrading the DRV first as that seems like the weakest point right now and I'm looking forward to setting it up. I've built computers before and love them so its kind of a cool project for me to try. Thanks for your help.

Hi, first post and am looking for some help as the amount of info it hard to get straight. We have a system in place right now. It consists of 8 cameras that feed to our current DVR, its a Swann cheapo. We used to have time laps VCR so its is better somewhat. The cameras arn't great but for now I would like to upgrade the DVR to a PC based unit. My question is which Geo card would be best, we don't record any audio nor do we want to. For now 8 cameras is fine, but what would be needed to upgrade to more cameras later if we get a 8 cam card, can we add another card or does the card have to be replaced? Also, we have a spare Dell PC that we couldn't use for a different project that I would like to use. Its a Dell 1100 series with a P4 2.8 Ghz, RAM is light with only 256MB but I could upgrade that and the Hard Drive would need to be either augmented with another or upgraded as its only 80GB. Would this system work or not, I think I might also have to add a graphics card so hopefully it has an AGP slot or PCI-x. Thank you for any help and I'm sure I will have more questions as I move forward. Looking forward to this project. Also, where would be a good place to purchase both the DVR cards and in the future cameras to replace the current ones we have.