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shoot I love to flood the area with our signs. It's great marketing. Plus you make the customers pay for the signs. So its free great marketing

I thought I would post this. This is a slide I got from Panasonic which is a good guide to go by. hope this is helpful

no kidding.

they do credit rotakin but it was in another slide. I did not feel it was necessary to put that slide up with it. I think the guide is good not for us to use but to show the people you are designing a system for that one camera on the parking lot is not a good idea.

one time we installed a system in a residential house. these people had more money than God and had cameras hanging all over their house by the time we were done. But the one place they did not want cameras to be seen was the front door. But of course they wanted a camera there. So we put a vandal proof dome and she made a wreath. And it pretty much was completely covert. (PRETTY MUCH). It worked out great. We dont do much residental installls though so I dont have any other ideas other than that one. my wife was against cameras on the outside of my house when I first started putting cameras on my house. Soon after she was complaining that she could not see a small small portion of the corner of our yard. Like 5% of the front yard. So she told me I had to get a camera that covers that area. point being that she will get used to the cameras once you get them.

"a device that keeps the wife happy" man if you find a device that can keep the wife happy please let me know. Oh ya and if in the process you can find a device that can make them keep their mouth shut, then pm me (please dont let my wife read this)

its a little different for me because I do not sell from my website. But I do kind of the same thing. I get atleast a snapshot from every camera I have ever installed. Most of the time I have some sort of video clip of each camera. I use it for a powerpoint presentations when I meet with people. I have about 15 different presentations that I use depending on the prospect. I have to say it works pretty good. But most of the time I am not giving them examples of pics but just showing a short demonastration on solutions that we provide. And how we compare to our competitors. I have to say it works alot. Mainly because I could tell them how good of service we provide until I was blue in the face. But showing them gets the point across without any blue faces.

well i was just passing information given to me. Man if you want all your questions answered in regards to video and signal and transmission then call the tech support at fm systems and let them load you with info. I am telling you they are extremely helpfull.

this information is from FM Systems web site. Here is the link. http://www.fmsystems-inc.com/tech_cctvqual.htm LINES BANDWIDTH TRANSMITTED REQUIRED 330 3.1 MHz 331 3.6 MHz 400 3.7 MHz 460 4.3 MHz 470 4.4 MHz 480 4.5 MHz 570 5.3 MHz 700 6.5 MHz 800 7.5 MHz RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN 'LINES' AND CABLE LENGTH One frequently used measure of picture quality loss, is when more than ½ of the energy at that frequency is lost. Thus at the cable length that ½ the energy at the desired quality level is lost, that defines the maximum length of cable that can transmit that level of quality. This leads to the following limits for maximum cable length at given picture quality levels. LINES RG59/U COAX UTP PAIR 330 686 Feet 282 Feet 400 615 Feet 254 Feet 470 585 Feet 234 Feet 570 521 Feet 215 Feet 700 471 Feet 189 Feet 800 444 Feet 175 Feet These un-equalized cable length limits can, of course, be exceeded, but only by decreasing the number of "Lines" of definition as viewed at the receiving location. HOW TO INCREASE CABLE LENGTH WITHOUT QUALITY LOSS Both Coaxial and UTP cables can be extended far beyond the limits shown on the previous table by amplifying and equalizing the video signal, while at the same time insuring the highest possible picture quality. While these Amplifier/Equalizers can improve the resultant pictures by simply adjusting the Amplitude and Equalization controls for the best looking picture, to obtain the best possible picture requires some Test Equipment. This Test Equipment not only saves many hours otherwise wasted in "knob twisting", but also results in perfect picture alignment every time, the first time out ! TEST EQUIPMENT NEEDED FOR PERFECT EQUALIZATION The VLTG-800 Video Line Test Generator creates a NTSC test signal that contains a Color Burst signal and 100,200,300,400,500,600,700, and 800 "Lines" patterns for observation on Monitors to measure system performance. This Video Line Test Generator signal may be inserted at any 75 Ohm location in a CCTV system as a quality testing signal for trouble shooting or quality testing purposes. The CM-1 Camera Master numerically measures CCTV system performance and enables precise Amplifier/Equalizer adjustment. The CM-1 is a small, battery operated digital meter that measures Sync amplitude, Color Burst amplitude, Composite Video amplitude, and Camera Focus. The Sync and Color Burst amplitude measurement enable the user to precisely set Amplifier/Equalizers to flat frequency response and correct amplitude. WHAT ARE IRE UNITS ? IRE Units are used worldwide to measure video signal amplitude instead of Volts Peak-to-Peak. This system of measurement is much easier to use than Volts Peak to Peak and can be directly measured on the CM-1 hand-held, battery-operated Camera Master instead of a bulky Wave Form Monitor that requires 120 VAC power. The following table defines the amplitude of various parts of a video signal. In terms of IRE Units and Volts. MEASUREMENT I.R.E. UNITS VOLTS Sync Pulse 40 0.285714---- Color Burst (p-p) 40 0.285714---- B/W Picture 100 0.714285---- Color Picture 120 0.857142---- B/W Composite (p-p) 140 1.000000---- Color Composite (p-p) 160 1.142857---- Note that a 50% grey (B/W) is 50 IRE, but 0.357142 Volts Peak. Difficult to measure on a scope, but very easy to measure with a CM-1 Camera Master. Also note that a composite Color picture is 1.142857 Volts, not 1.0Volt. An additional complication is that many Automatic Shutter Cameras are set at the factory to produce as much as 1.3 Volts Peak-to-Peak output in an effort to overcome cable losses . Since this level is sometimes not adjustable at the Camera, there must be a provision , such as an Amplifier/Equalizer, to reduce the composite video level to 140 IRE Units prior to a Digital Recorder to prevent digital overload that will cause the Digital Recorder to cease operation. Many failures of digital recorders are simply due to digital overload on high video levels. Placing an Amplifier/Equalizer ahead of a digital recorder and correcting the video level will usually correct this type of failure. TYPICAL EFFECT OF UNEQUALIZED UTP CABLE LOSS As the UTP or Coaxial cable gets longer, of course the picture becomes weaker (due to low frequency cable loss), and the picture detail becomes fuzzier (due to high frequency cable loss), unless an Amplifier/Equalizer is provided to compensate for these losses. The following table shows the sort of losses that can be expected for various lengths of 24 gauge UTP facilities. 24 GAUGE UN-EQUALIZED UTP CABLE SYNC (Low Frequency) COLOR BURST (High Frequency) LENGTH I.R.E % LOSS NOTES: I.R.E. % LOSS NOTES: 0 Feet 40 0% 40 0% 500 Feet 35.2 12 % #1 21 47.5% #6 1000 Feet 31 22.5 % #2 11 72.5% #7 1500 Feet 27.4 31.5% #3 5.8 85.5% #8 2000 Feet 24.1 39.8% #4 3 92.5% #9 3000 Feet 18.7 53.3% #5 0.5 98.0% #10 NOTES: #1 Slight brightness loss #2 Moderate brightness loss #3 Serious brightness loss #4 Possible loss of sync #5 Probable loss of sync #6 Weak Color, 50% detail loss #7 Very weak color, poor detail #8 Color faded out, very poor detail #9 Color gone, low quality picture #10 No color, very poor quality picture

ya especially if you are going that distance go with cat 5e. Get some QUALITY video baluns. One active and one passive. NVT sells some good ones. Just do not go with the cheap ones as their is a big difference. Even in the passive ones. By using cat 5 you can maintain quality images over long runs. I had a instance here recently where I had a ground loop problem and so I threw a cheap active transciever that i have had for like a year and a half at the dvr location. Well it did solve the ground loop but I was not able to get my iris reading below 120 IRE's. Which made the dvr read above its threshold and made the dang thing power cycle on and off alll night! So get the good ones

oh definitly get a wide dynamic range camera. It is guaranteed to solve your problem. http://catalog2.panasonic.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ModelDetail?displayTab=O&storeId=11201&catalogId=13051&itemId=94948&catGroupId=14474&modelNo=WV-CW474AFTP&surfModel=WV-CW474AFTP trust me on this one.

thats good. Shoot I wish alot of the people I get calls from to do proposals would do the same thing. That way they have some clue as to why you need the things I suggest. And you wont get burned. Like alot do. now I did not say you wont like it. I said most likely not. I am just basing that off of 99% of the people who do that. For all I know that may be great for you. But in most scenarios it is not pleasing. I did the same thing and use little crt's for my system now. Anyways if you want to use rg-6 go ahead. Just be sure to use the copper shielding instead of the aluminum. You could also use cat 5 cable and a passive and active balun to get the video back. Much less bulky.

just out of curiousity do you have right near any flourescent lighting? or have any of the wire laid across the top of the lighting fixtures? now that I think about it I have serviced some cameras that were installed by another company who had rolled up the excess wire and zip tied it and laid it on top of a fixture. And the camera had white lines going from bottom to top.

well then its the camera. send it back. just for curiosity what brand and model is it?

about 15% of the time I come on the forum it will either give me a can not be found page. The other day I came and it just gave me the sites meta tag at the top and nothing else. weird

i have no idea what camera you are talking about. Try posting manufacturer and even a link to the camera. dip switches could be many different things. But The dial you have is probably your iris

How far exactly is it from your camera to your monitor? Instead of trying to figure out the bandwith and making it harder on yourself than it actually is just tell us the length and unless it is a long way you should be ok. In the instance it is to long then you can use an amplifier. oh ya and the second question. yes you can plug it into your dell monitor. Now the question is will you pleased? Most likely not. Most people prefer the crt's. I could try to explain it to you but the best thing I could say is it just looks funny.

if you connected another camera at the SAME location on the same cable then it would have to be the camera. It sounds like a ground loop problem but have never heard of them being white bands. Did you hook up a test monitor at the camera and see if it has the problem?

Man that car came pretty close to running her over. And the funny thing was she was not going to move. She did not even flinch! She stood there until the car finally decided to swerve.

You want to see a pretty funny video? This is off of an old mace dvr (sorry) http://arksurveillance.com/capequipcarstolen.mp4 if you need the player go to mace.com and download the player.

I definitly second that. You have to stay away from ebay as you are most likely to be un happy

oh ya and the question about the shielding running next to 240v. How close is the cable running to the 240? Is it running parallel? Or intersecting? Usually if you are not running along side it you wont have any problems. That is as long as you dont some how double ground your cable. Induced Voltage will travel on your shielding but in no way should make your cameras go out. If you had induced voltage (ground loop) it would usually create black rolling bars on your screen or even make your dvr shut on and off and on and off and on and off. But should not make your cameras go out.

are you sure that your ups with surge protection is plugged into an outlet that is properly grounded? because if not then the surge protector is useless. That might be one thing to check. Also the cameras that are going out are they outside or inside? if they are outside are you sure they are 100% weatherproof? If they are then are you sure that the connectors from the camera that are connecting to your wire is 100% waterproof? I have done that before where the connections are not 100% sealed and water got on the connections and oops. Now I make everyone use silicone tape then electrical tape. And it has to be done a SPECIFIC way cause that was a costly mistake I had made. Might want to check those things.

ok try this. camera going into a 1 in 2 out video distributor/amplifier then have one of the 2 outputs from the dist/amp going into the dvr card. Then the second output from the dist/amp going to the video modulator. The reason that you need the dist/amp instead of a "T" splitter is not only is that normal not recommended. But on top of that you would going to have it run through the rg-6 cable which is aluminum shielded isntead of copper shielded. So those two things together would be a gamble at best. Now yes you can run everything over cat 5/cat6. But let me clarify on that. There is two ways that you could be talking about. #1 Poe (power over ethernet) a feature of ip cameras where you can have power go through your switch/hub and power the camera. #2 sending power over a pair of copper and having video sent back over a pair by way of video baluns. Yes you can do it. Dont send power and video on the same cable. You will be suseptible to ground loops or cross talk. Bellieve me from personal experience. Use two different cables. One power and one video.

no there is no quality difference between rca and bnc. RCA is used mostly for DIY. BNC are widely used by professional installers. It is my assumption that bnc's are the standerd for two reasons 1. the connector locks on to the female bnc adapter. 2. once locked center conductor slides into the female adapter keeping the center conductor from exposure to oxygen which overtime keeps corrusion down significantly.