Tailbone215

It sounds like you have a good grasp of the situation and problems at hand. If you get a high quality HD cam and record a wide area you will get the action you want, but will it deliver the impact you want? I doubt it. If it were me, I would get a decent quality HD camcorder and give it to somebody that knows how to properly use it and be creative with panning and zooming. A wide still fixed HD cam will document what you want but it isn't going to be what you crave without human intervention.

I'm not sure if you have considered a cheap point and shoot camera with HD video? You can use something like a Canon Powershot in a waterproof housing that is dirt cheap. Of course you can also get a dedicated HD video cam. I don't see any benefit in using CCTV in this instance. If you are just looking for a small HD bullet cam there is one out there made to fit on the helmet. I don't remember the brand. I'm sure someone here can point you in the right direction.

Please accept my apology, I wasn't trying to poke fun at you. You seem to have something going on with this circuit. If the fuses aren't blowing immediately and you aren't feeding new ones in there expecting different results you are OK. As others have said, the IR is drawing more current than can be supplied. My guess is you have something else going on with your wiring.

Sorry! That wasn't my intention. I was just passing on the story of "feeding the alligator" that we use to tease some of the green techs. After an alligator is fully fed (empty box of fuses) the tech realises this is not the way to go about problem solving.

You got to stop feeding the alligator!! Every once in a while we get a new tech that keeps feeding fuses while scratching his ass in bewilderment wondering why he keeps blowing fuses. As Matt suggested you need to up the wire size or you might have an intermittent ground fault issue (bad power cable). Get your meter out and diagnose.

Personally, I think this is a dead end street and this guy is a timewaster looking for a cheap deal or just burning time trolling the forum. There are plenty or resourses in his state to get the job done, so he need look there if he is for real. After all, he did claim to have access to all the harwdware in a previous post. Let him ask these contacts. I think it is time for one of the mods to lock/delete this thread.

So, you want someone to do the design work, and then you will most likely purchase and install the recommended equipment on your own? Nothing wrong with that. That's why it is called consulting work. It is done all the time in new construction of major projects. A lot of times you don't have to touch a thing other than giving the client a set of drawings and specs of materials used. That is why I gave the original poster my rock bottom rates.

It is obvious the original poster is talking about the number of apartment units the property has.

For Christ's sake you can't blame the thieves for stealing all this stuff as the shop made it to easy for them. The shop would have been better off loading the van for thieves. At a minimum they should have folding security gates and/or rollup metal doors on all storefront window and door(s). And ounce of forethought avoids this stupidity and loss. On a side note, I was looking at a new Yamaha VMax today and the store had all the proper deterrents in place.

My fee schedule doesn't change, at least decrease, because you are requesting information. You will need to provide more specifics about what you really want, or think you want and we will decide if you are the right person, company, or entity to do business with.

Sorry, we don't partner with anyone, but we do work on a consultation basis. Our initial rates are $5,700 plus travel, meals, and lodging for the first 24-hours meeting. Discount rates apply for each additional day.

Nothing wrong with a camera that is a year or so past EOL. They can be found dirt cheap, usually $100 new in box. I got a bunch of 498s, but will always buy a skid or two of 495s when they come up.

I always find Bosch to do a great job at night.

Thanks. That's not too bad at all. In the second shot I can see the ambient light source being reflected off the bricks so I am guessing there is probably more light than what one would find in most poorly lit situations. I think the weird coloration on the dumpsters is from flare or reflections of a nearby light source on the camera's enclosure. The noise looks acceptable. I guess the true test would be to see images from an area that is only lit by a full moon with no other light pollution. I would like to be there in person to see this installation and lighting to be 100% sure. Thanks again for posting these images as they are very helpful.

16 MP Pro current MSRP about $11000 CA can do little better how many ? How is the low light performance on these cams? Are they managing noise well?

Let's see, you want people to send you their resume with all their personal information to a total stranger hiding behind a yahoo account? You might be legit, but this sends up a red flag. Do you have your own domain for your business? If so, you might get better response. Plus, I'm not sure this "Help Wanted" advertising is allowed in this section of the forum. You might be better off moving this to the classified section. This does smell like SPAM to me....

Fill them with nitrogen.

WOW! Sounds like them thar CNB dohickies are so way overcomplicated for the common man that we have to write a novel as epic as "War and Peace". Thank god the outlet stores sell Lorex as everything is plug n play... :>)

BINGO! That is why installers will have to learn how to adapt or hire/sub someone that does IT integration. This will separate the professionals from the wannabes. Either way you are working with the customer's IT department in some sort of way. I do agree with you that the customer's IT department is more cooperative when they are explained the full scope of what is involved.

Exactly! That is my point. It would be foolish of them to have a few distributors having forced inventory when they can have an unlimited amount of drop-shippers working the channels for sales. The only downside of drop-shipping is these sellers aren't always going to be getting the merchandise shipped to their customers reliably. Drop-shippers are only as good as the company doing the actual shipping.

It will never happen as there are too many manufacturers that don't have the intestinal fortitude to stop their distributors from drop-shipping. I guess you really can't expect them to as it is all about the dollar at the end of the day. I tried to have this conversation previously with another member and it was like talking to a cinderblock.

I have to agree with this. Personally I think there will be a needed learning curve in the industry and the dinosaurs that don't want to learn to adapt will go extinct. The issue here is the installer is going to have to work with the customer's IT department since most of the time the newly installed system will have to be integrated into theirs. If you are willing to learn and make the effort to adapt this is a real non-issue. Of course, there will always be an IT department that think they have the smarts to sub out all the pulling and installing. Sometimes they get lucky...

Sounds like you are on the right track by assessing the situation and laying out a workable strategy. I would take inventory of what camera/lenses are salvageable and possibly could be reused in different locations. You might be better off just trashing the cams and starting over, depending on the quality of what you got. Your biggest headache will be cabling and conduit runs as most are inside poured concrete when the correctional facility was built. Are the present ones usable with good cabling and are they in key locations to maximise the customer's needs? You need to sit down with the customer and find out what they really hate about the current configuration and build from there. Don't rush these types of jobs.

+1 Anyone that does alot of upgrade or service work surely has done alot of solid splicing in their time. Or dealing with electricians that run the cable to the wrong spot, or camera has to be moved for whatever reason and well client does not have endless funding. Also good points. OF COURSE the ideal solution when you have a broken run, or one you need to extend, is to pull all the old wire out and pull in some new stuff. How often is that really feasible? Try dealing with gas stations where the conduit to the pumps has been sealed with 6+ inches if chico, and just see how easy it is to extract that old wire... I don't think anyone is saying splicing is taboo, you just have to do it where it is easily accessible in case you have problem. Too many times I have seen splices buried in walls. As for gas stations, if you got to make a splice because you miscalculated length you are also going to be dealing with conduit and explosion proof boxes. Please don't tell me you would slide a BNC barrel connector combo inside a conduit. I know you won't as I feel you know better.

Huh? If you gotta go through all of that you better have enough manpower and be running pulling line till you get to the point of where you have everything figured out and can make the final pull in one shot while having the help at the difficult points nursing the cable along. "Enough manpower." Right. And what do you do when that exceeds a "reasonable" point? If I'd had to do the aforementioned bottling plant with a single pull, some runs would have required (NO EXAGGERATION!) six guys, five of them on lifts. I mean yeah, that woulda been great, zip through the whole job in no time... however, since we're normally a crew of two, that would mean hiring four subs and renting three extra lifts for the day. And don't forget the constant flow of forklifts zipping around - with two of us and a single lift, it was possible to stay out of the way for the most part... any more than that, the client would never have gone for the level of disruption. I've said it before: sometimes you have to do what you have to do to keep things "reasonable"; the ideal situation is rarely possible. I do agree with you, but that's why you assess the job and plan out the best course of attack. The problem with splices is you have just created another maintenance point and a potential for possible failure you normally wouldn't have had before with a single run. The bottom line is you gotta do what you feel you gotta do. Plus, if you have to be in that location to pull the wire in the first place splicing it isn't going to be saving you any manhours.