jisaac

i dont use pc based. i only used embedded. So ya i was talking about embedded

military requiers EVERYTHING to be in conduit ( inside or outside ). So what normally would take a week takes 3 weeks.

I appreciate it. I am looking forward to our future.

Well so i went out to our job site today and could not get the cameras to work. Also found out 2 more had gone out over the weekend that just happeaned to be right next to those other 2 .So I had my wire pullers just run new wire and they work perfect now. It took almost the whole day but hey they finally work. Who knows what the hell was wrong with that cable. Dont really want to put much more thought into it. Anyways have a good one Isaac

I am cookoo for coco puffs. Ya I was thinking holy **** this guy must supply some crappy equipment! Ya that makes a whole lot more sense! Well that answers my question. I am about to go try to figure out those cameras at that 32 camera install. Appreciate all the help. Will post back what I come up with isaac

wow! I am learning alot. $650 for a 16 channel dvr?!?!?!?!??! what kind of dvr do you provide? Man I dont know maybe I charge to much. Honestly a 16 channel dvr I sell for $6,000. I try to provide only high end equipment though. Like the 16 channel dvr is 30 seconds per channel so 480fps (embedded). With Mpeg 4 480G hard drive, dvd-rw, remote access, triplex enabled to record, playback, and transmit video remotly at the same time. and other things. The least expensive bullet camera I sell is a $222 dollar bullet. And Also I sell a Ptz for 2,200 (outdoor). I cant believe you sell things for so cheap. And I did not see if you add the labor into a total bid or just give an estimate on labor and then total it all up at the end.

dang 30%? wow you must have alot of competition. Or its just we have very few. I am not even going to say what we do just in case some of my competitors in my area are in here and seeing as how they hate me they would love to relay that percentage back to my prospects. Seeing as how they relay everything else they can make up in there failing businness offices because I can bid a job fo twice as much and almost always get the job. Competitors around here will do anything to bad mouth me and probly anyone else that poses a threat to them

yes i did test the other pairs. It was open on the cable tester and obviously no video on the monitor. And i normally do use 2 pairs for power but no run on this whole system was longer than 100 feet so i figured my voltage drop would be non existant. Am I right or wrong for figuring that?

ya i have not tried to hooking it up on a single power supply. I have a million power supply's at my store i will definiltly give that a try first thing monday morning. Hopefully that would help. I cant think of anything else to do. My absolute last resort is pull the camera and use the existing wire as a pull wire and run new wire and put a new camera and new baluns and then ask God for forgiveness for my future behavior if that does not work. Because I will be one mad Mother ******! We are already 2 days over schedule!

ya i can run a temp cable to see if it works. (this is a rich womens clothing store so i have to would have to do it fast or get a bunch of complaints about being in their way of their clientell) Anyways Ya I am using 1 pair for video and 1 pair for power. The other 2 pair are not being used. And you asked what type of ends do i have. Well it is terminal going into the baluns and bnc out of the baluns (male). And i did test the volts and video at by a multimeter and 5.6 test monitor at both ends. At the camera i got 12 volts and was able to get a video signal. But at the end of the cable run at the dvr I get a good signal from my cable tester but no video signal that can be seen. I told you this was a brain racker. But definitly appreciate your past and future input

Hey i was wondering if anyone would know the information about equipment. We do work for the military. And one thing that they do require is that because of the buy american act that everything we install has to be american made or made in a country of good diplomatic relations. Well that takes out alot of equipment. Anything made in china, taiwan, or any country with bad labor laws or other reason to piss us off is not allowed. What is some good equipment made in a country that has not pissed us off?

now you know that is a very good question and would seem like a easy question to answer. I have requested a list of good countrys and have not yet recieved a reply. I know china, taiwan, North korea, are bad. I know dedicated micros was approved it is made in Malac or malta one of the two.

the run is only about 95 feet and I am using passive transcievers. Those particular cameras were the only cameras off those 2 cat 5's. And all 32 cameras are run off 2 12 volt dc 9 amp power supplys. These cameras only pull about 250ma each

Ya i did. But the other pair was not used on that run. So it did not give me anything as I expected. The thing that boggles my mind is that my cable tester reads the video signal but i cant actually bring that into a visable video. Via test monitor or dvr to 42" plasma or straight to the plasma. I get nothing. The only thing i can think of is maybe the signal i am getting from the camera at the dvr location is somewhere below .8 volts. And maybe my monitors are actually looking for something above .8 volts. But my cable tester will show a pass ID# with a very low voltage. Maybe? Maybe not!

i would like those pdf files also. jisaacmagee@sbcglobal.net Also when you guys do your bids do you include labor in your bid? What we do is give them the equipment cost and then say we charge $50 dollars an hour per technician and then give them an estimate on time. Not sure if that is the best way to due it but that is how we do it. Obviously for government applications we have to give a total bid including labor. But the reason I hate to include labor on a bid is that alot of times the time it takes to do a job depends on the end user. " I need to get by you guys." "Or, oh wait a minute I want this to go over there" "or I dont understand how to play back my dvr, can you explain it to me for the nineteenth million time!" Know what mean?

cable has continuity remember the cable tester? It would say open if it had a break in it. It would say short if there was a short. But it says voltage and pass id. So the power is going up from the power supply to the camera and thru the cable to the last balun. So cable is good. Dvr channels are all enabled. Plus I hooked the video signal up to the test monitor and still got no signal. And the thing about this is that it is a extremely hard wire run and took alot of time getting it to this location. Its only about 95 feet. But their is so much crap between these two floors that it took 3 guys 4.5 hours to get a cable to that location. So just running a new run is absolutly my last resort.

I am sure you probably know what I am going to say. Yes Mace Mace has 4 channel 120 fps mpeg-4 triplex enabled. it can playback, record, and remote transmit all at once. it has it all isaac

Mace advanced dvr definitly