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  1. Heh - I tried to take the CPU heatsink/fan off, but it looks like the spring loaded hooks are connected on the other side of the board. Not something I'm in the mood to remove at the moment
    FYI: The cooler in my QC804 popped off by itself. The securing pins are plastic with flanges that flare out below the circuit board. You can (I did on one of the two) just pull them out. You are better off removing the circuit board and squeezing the flanges in.

  2. ... I can't tell from the picture but it looks like that is the type of camera where you can unscrew it from the mounting arm, this would allow you to use a different mount, one with a longer arm.
    Possibly, but would require surgery. The camera housing ends in a ball which is enclosed in the mount in a socket joint. The complication is that the Ethernet cable passes out of the camera housing through the ball and then travels through a hole in the mount and ends with molded connectors which are bigger than the hole in the mount. One would have to disassemble the camera, detach the cable, pass it through the new mount, pass it back through the housing ball, and reattach it to the camera circuitry. I haven't seen that connection, but it would have to be a small connector or soldered wires.

  3. I got about a 2" stand-off by mounting the camera on a "4 in. Round Weatherproof Electrical Outlet Box with Five 1/2 in. Holes - White". I bought a blank cover and drilled a 1-1/4 inch hold in it (drilled 5/16 and used cheap Harbor Freight dye set to punch to size. I found a rubber gasket with a lip in the local big-box hardware stores plumbing section that fit the base of the camera and extended about 1/8" up the side. The outlet box's color, shape, and surface is close enough to the camera to make it somewhat blend in (see picture).

     

    A side benefit is that I only needed to drill a wall hole big enough to get the RJ-45 cable lug through. The connection to the camera is all in the box.

     

    Hope this helps.

     

    Joe M

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