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I have MPEG4 4ch dvr and I want to use a vga monitor on it. It has a male vga connector and says that it needs a converter to connect a monitor.

Is it just a female-female vga adapter?

Thanks Mike

If I focus it for night, it's out of focus during the day.

Are you certain it is a focus issue? Focus is very non-critical when an iris is closed. It is only critical when the iris is open.

I'll give it another try but i won't get a chance till Thursday night.

If I focus it for night, it's out of focus during the day.

Just curious - which DVR are you using?

The third picture cam from a GEN IV. I had the gate camera connected to a Dedicated Micros but was getting quite a bit of loss through it so I connected it directly to a Pelco CM6800 matrix.

Which cameras and lenses are you using currently?

The color camera is a PC33CDN-4G Day/Night Color Surveillance Camera. I'm off today so I don't have the lens and b/w camera inoformation with me right now. The PTZ is an ACD-1500.

What type of activities and level of detail are you expecting to observe with this camera?

 

Can you use the corner of the cooling tower to mount a camera, or run a wire to one of the gate posts?

Mainly if the gate is open, closed, or blocked.

Not a lot of detail like license plates or driver really.

Can't put a cam on the chiller.

I am trying to get a view of this gate day and night. Distance is about 200'

So far I've tried a 1/3" Color Day/Night 480 lines .01 lux(doubtful), and an old 1/3 BW.

With an Auto Iris lens's both cameras drift out of focus as it gets darker. Different AI lenses.

With varifocal lens's both slowly go to black as the sun goes down.

This is a shot from a PTZ we have about 500'. Same camera specs as the color cam. Of course they can't cut down the trees...

From what I've read on here it would be to far to use IR unless it was lit from the side, possibly form the chiller on the right in the second pic.

I'd like to stay < $500

Thanks Mike...

Will Pelco Coaxial control work over cat5 & baluns?

Thanks mike...

What I was looking for was something like the spectra dome series. with a built in receiver.

Besides pelco what other cameras support coaxial control for PTZ?

Thanks, I ordered the SCT-CRX-Pelco-Pelco and it works great.

I never could find poleedit.exe!

 

I did a search in regedit and I could not find it there either!

 

I am still laughing my butt off about this "hack"!

Like he said it's poledit.exe.

If it's not on the C: drive it should be on the CD in the tools directory. Lot's of nifty tricks in it. 98 is pretty hard to totally lock down from someone who knows what they are doing. 2k and XP are better, especially if they are on an AD.

I would rather learn to undo what I have. I am more interested in tinkering, and learning.

 

These were used for a call center, that was built in 99. I never had a chance to switch OS. Now that I have an excuse, I can get off my can and make it happen.

 

I just was not interested in licensing 10 + Win XP.

 

Thanks!

It sounds like the PC's have been locked down by policies. Look for poledit.exe, I think it is on 98. You can use it to edit the policies.

Is there a converter available to allow a Pelco Matrix (Coaxial) to control a RS485 only PTZ camera?

Thanks Mike...