jisaac

can you provide a layout, pictures, measurments? or even a google earth photo? As much detailed explenation as you can will help. Pictures and measurements will also be extremely helpful in aiding your design.

i would go with the 53 instead of the 43. And why do you want them to look like floodlights if people cant rip them off? Honesly I have numerous cameras around my house. On the outside I honstely have 9. And its a perfectly square house. Well 4 of those are for testing and 5 for my personal system. And the other day one of my neighbors saw me adjusting a camera during the day. Well that was the first time he ever knew their was cameras!?!?!?! I was shocked. I mean I these are not hidden cameras. The one I was adjusting was in a pelco outdoor housing. Point of the story, People dont look up. Mount it above the normal area people ever look and chances are they will never even notice it.

hey check out this link. this is my "competition" http://www.eagle-Dahuaeillance.com/serv01.htm

Ya one of the easiest ways to tell if someone is a newbie that installed a system is it seems they always mount the camera right behind a flourescent light looking right into the light. At least around here. Its pretty funny.

buy some equipment and hook your house or something up just like you were going to do it on a real installation. Let it run for a week and see if you still are interested.

hey kandcorp its good to see you actually post some pics of your girlfriend, I was starting to wonder if she was actually real.

no wait.... Paintballs

thats not really what I am talking about. I am talking more along the lines of particular light bulbs that put off a spectrum of light that was not anticipated that the camera obviously see's. Of course light is your friend other wise we have no images. Unless we all used thermal. Sales would probably go down. Anyways back on subject. ex. ***** light bulbs/ ***** lights used for _________________

water hose. just kidding, dont try

oh ya I agree with rory. The whole process of designing and choosing the type of equipment for each specific area is 75% of the job that will make the job a do it yourself qualty and a professional quality designed system and effectiveness. But that is a pretty general question about a very detailed oriented and rapidly changing industry. Are you looking to get into the installation business? or are you a do it yourself person?

I have a prospect that wants an un Godly amount of available time that they can go back and retrieve recorded video. Can anyone think of any reason why I couild not just actually whenever the dvr fills up the hard drives in it, that I could just take out the hard drives in it and put in new ones. Store the old hard drives and then just have fresh ones to start out with. The thing is these people are willing to pay for this length of time. So I will do whatever to get it to them. Any thoughts?

use a filter the sdII and even the SDIII with abf still need you to get it set right

no I was talking about the 1/3". I have not tried the 1/2" Man I usually set the duration time on mine so that the camera will switch to bw as fast soon as it can on auto because the bw is just so clean.

man I love them. they look excellent under applications others would just pretty much quit. I used to only attempt to put them in at the base but here lately have been able to get them out into the public. The color reproduction is beautiful compared to any other cam i have come across. It takes the whole behavior of old cameras (pretty much just reflectiing light into a viewable image...bad abnormal light conditiions = bad shot) and leaves it behind in the dust. The whole image processing and scaling of individual colors and combining the usuable ranges in the image to produce what would have been a "damaged" shot into a very clear image that was pretty much created by the camera. It bllows just about any other camera out of the water. If you really want get some person to upgrade a system or get them open up the idea of spending some money, then just put a SDIII in place of one of their cameras for a week and I promise you they wont be able to stand looking at the rest of the cameras. It works all the time. Heck it worked on myself. About 7 months ago I started to put those in the systems desing and proposals for the base and got some in. Decided to check it out and ended up taking down every camera I had and putting up the SDIII instead. Its like it hurts my eyes to see others up against it. I would definilty recommend trying atleast one out( thats what I did and ended up putting 13 on my PERSONAL system). People complain they are expensive but man they are worth every dime to me. Especially since those other cameras HURT MY EYES!

oh when we get done with this job their will definitly be some video links. About the 300x I dont have a link but if you get that panasonic spec cd it has all kinds of cool presentations with clips on the cd. Let me see if I can upload some of it to my site and then try to let you ftp some of it.

TRY ABF ON YOUR NEXT ORDER.

went back today to close the deal and I was wrong it did have a wheel on the front,. This must have been a real old piece. It was basically a multiplexer with a hard drive in it and a good luck wish. Must have been one of the first. Ya this will be an install I will have to get in on. Will be one of those have to stick around and play with systems. Will be trying the new panasonic wvcw954 SDIII outdoor 300x 30x optical ptz with auto tracking. Will be a total of 30 and the best part is we have to only hook it up because they have a company that has the contract for all cable and networking in that hospital. SWEET. So plug and play and play and play and play and play........

said it right on the front

welcome..... I have done several jobs where we had to dig trenches and mount cameras about 20 yards out from the corners of some buildings up on some 12ft tall rigid conduit poles. And the cameras were looking back at the building. Believe me its a pain in the *** if you screw up or forget to figure in your other cable that you did not pull through the conduit. If you are going to bury it then go ahead and get at the minimum 1"conduit. dont make the mistake of lettting someone else buy the conduit and then they get 1/2"conduit and try to convence you that 2 sets of siamese cable and 2 pairs of 6 conducter alarm wire is going to pull through. Becuase if you ask my crew to do that, that is exactly what will hapeean. So ya get 1" conduit and run your coax through their along with some extra cable. (I would throw in some cat 5 and some extra pull wire for the stuff you add on later ). If you have not done many installs I would definitly get some good crimpers and practice before you go out on the job site. Or maybe do some twist on's. Now the cameras......... What is the lighting like in hallways? Extremely well? Dark? Is their many areas of really bright areas (windows) and then really dark shadows? (extreme contrast )? How long are the hallways? Are you trying to capture facial recognition? General Activity? What is your specific thing you are wanting to see on these camera shots? Also you might want to consider to save yourself a bunch of cable burial and headache, try and see if they have a network or unused telephone wire that is already connecting the buildings. That could save you a bunch of work and be an extremely easy and profitable install. Anyways I will let you respond to that bunch of questions and then we will see what your options are from there. Have a good one

it can definitly be done without. But why do it without? Makes it a whole lot less adjustments (possiblilty).

actually the location that is upgrading and wants the massive storage they called me requesting a pelco dx8000. Saying that the dvr they now have and I quote" suck, and really are not what we need". It was a very very basic machine that was lacking any kind of features that made it stand out. I do know it was a dvmr . Small little box that looked exactly like what the old multiplexers look like. No knobs,no distinguishing features just rubber push buttons on the front. Usually what i end up providing is a direct result of what I included in my presentation to the customer. But on this particular one I let him decide. Showed him several video from several DVRs and he choose the ICrealtime without hesitating. (very un common people will choose and decide on exactly what they want ).

what does not make sense? They were not satisfied by the GE so they wanted to put in something that was a more along the lines of what fit their needs. actually this is the second client that has swapped out a GE for an ICREaltime. And the other one just got a new GE 3 months ago. That goes to say that not every customer will like 1 particular product, regarless of what I or anyone else may think. If they are willing to pay for it I will get it done. ( pertaining to surveillance systems ).

this will be 2 16 channel dvr. 30 ptz's.

ge is the dvr we are replacing......so that would probably not go over well

wanting 2 years. I am atleast wanting 1 year hopefully 2 years since he is willing to pay for it. was wanting to use the icrealtime dvr.