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You would be better off buying used name brand equipment that you know something about as opposed to buying new no-name equipment that you no nothing about. As far as putting them inside housings, sure they not as aesthetic as bullets but your main goal should be quality of camera image,not aesthetics of what the cameras look like. Besides, they make some pretty slick looking housings nowadays.

Yeah I have learned alot and experienced alot about cable since I opened this thread a long while back. The only cable that we use and sell is the stuff that has 95% braided copper shielding, with no foil wrapped core. The center coax conductor has to be solid copper. Having a solid copper coax conductor is very important and I have experienced first hand that the copper clad coax conductor is way more sub par than the solid copper. As far as the 18/2 power wires go, the cable we use has copper clad power wires. We also bought the cable that has the solid copper power wires and could not tell much of a difference between the 2. It did not make sense to pay the extra money to get the cable that had the solid copper power wires. Anyone who purchases the cheap flexible RCA type siamese cable that you can find on ebay will quickly be dissapointed. I have had several customers who purchased that type of cable call me up and say that the cameras they purchased from us arent working, but after some quick troubleshooting, the culprit is always the cheap cable. We send out the good cable to them and problem solved.

I dont know what model you purchased but Hikvision makes a pretty solid DVR for the most part so I wouldnt worry too much about that. Can you not change the port setting on the DVR to 80 instead of 8000? Also, more than likely, you will use a different port than 8000 or 80 to access the DVR from your Android

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almost all box cameras whether they are bought on eBay or anywhere else, do not have mounts with them. They are pretty standard, the camera has a typical camera mount screw hole. You can get the mounts on ebay as well for pretty cheap too or any other CCTV supplier for that matter. If you are using a little transformer, I would probably recommend getting another one to power your other camera. Otherwise, you can look into getting a multi-camera power supply.

Unless you can qualify as a distributor (mass purchaser), you probably wont find much of a better price anywhere else, if so, it will be insignificant.

The one with the Dual Plugs is a Wren for sure. The one with the single cord with the screw terminals is an older model Wren I believe, but it could also be a General Lock as I have never gotten any documentation for that camera before even though I have thousands of them here at our warehouse. They are definetely both dual voltage for sure. A rule of thumb on the Wren board cameras is if it has 2 boards, it is dual voltage, the single boards are 12V DC only. It may be different on other brand cameras but thats how it goes for the Wren cameras. The one with the 2 cords that has a seperate power and video cable is a better camera in my opinion. The other camera with the single cord is still good but the wires often come loose from the little white connector that connects to the board. Luckily, they have those terminals on the board that you can connect your power to in case that happens. but for ease of use, I would recommend just using the power and video cable that is attached to the camera for testing purposes. The cameras will get warm no matter what power supply you are using as most security cameras do that, some even hot to the touch. As far as your cameras turning on and off, they shouldnt be doing that with the 500mah power supply, that should be enough to power it, but you can always go down to your Radio Shack and pick up a 12V DC 1 amp adapter and that will power it for sure. Perhaps your power supply is going bad, I dunno, but it sounds like a power related issue to me if both of them are doing that.

That is a Wren Camera. General Lock makes one just like it but I would bet that its a Wren. They make some excellent board cameras. You are correct in assuming that the dual boards are dual voltage 12V/24VAC. The single board cameras are 12V DC only. I am not sure why your camera was powering on and off. To me that sounds like an underamped camera, but you definetely should not be underamped with a 500mah power supply. Maybe its just a bad camera. You cant really overamp the camera. I have used 12V DC power supplies with a 5amps and it still worked fine. The camera will pull as much amps as it needs. You just dont want to go too much over 12V, otherwise, you can fry the camera. Good luck finding a full spec sheet for those cameras, I have gotten millions of those in over the past year and a half and havent got a full spec sheet. And I doubt Wren will give it to you either because they were made for a specific retailer. I do know that they have 330 TV lines. As you said, the picture is very clear, this is why I always say that TV lines is not that important when it comes to picture clarity. We have several 330 TV line cameras that blow away alot of 550 tv line cameras when it comes to picture clarity. Anyways, let me know if you have any more questions about those cams.

I dont think any of monoprice DVR's are Dahua's. For mace, the model number for the Dahua DVR that is talked about most on this forum is: SQ40, SQ80, and SQ160.

More than likely you will have to go into your DVR's menu and find the hard-drive section and format the DVR. Its usually as simple as clicking on the format icon.

Did you put the disc into your computer to see if there was a file with a .dll extension in it? If so, let me know as there may be a way you have to execute that file in order for the media player to work correctly.

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I dont know why it would not come factory defaulted to overwrite. Most DVR's I have noticed already do. Ayways, thats what I would recommend that you set it to. You have to go into your DVR settings and change it to that.

Hi, Sorry for the troubles you are having. Hope this helps: 1) You can fully delete the data thats on the hard-drive by going into the menu and finding the area where you can "format" the hard-drive. This will erase everything. Otherwise, you will need to set your DVR to overwrite the old data once it reaches its hard-drive capacity, the newest data will continually replace the oldest data. 2) Did the DVR come with a disc to install in your computer? Sometimes they will have some dll files within that disc that you manually have to go in and put in your system32 folder and execute it to make it play. let me know if you see any .dll files on that CD and I will give you some instructs on how to proceed.

I find that the only good use for a heater is to heat off the fog that occasionally builds up on the window when it gets cold. But the cameras put off so much heat already that you really dont have to worry too much about the camera getting cold, that heat stays encapsulated in that dome so well too I bet. We have a BBM-24F in a housing without any heater or fan and it dropped below 0 several times this winter and it did not get affected at all. But I would agree that if you want your cameras to last a while, get an outdoor camera. I'll bet that moisture will eventually start rusting up the electronics inside after a year or 2.

If you are using your DVR for the main purpose of recording surveillance, then image quality is the most important thing you should look for in a DVR. If you are satisfied with your DVR and the recorded image, then why make a switch. If you are asking if you will see a significant difference (using your current cameras) in image quality with your current DVR or by upgrading, here is a simple test that you can do to help answer your question. Run a camera directly into your monitor and bypass the DVR totally. If the image looks just as good (or maybe just a hair better) as it does after its recorded through your DVR, then no, you will not get a better recorded image by upgrading. However, if the image looks alot better ran directly into the monitor than it does after recording through your DVR. Then it is possible that your DVR is either recording in CIF rez or its highly compressing the video to make for a low quality image. This is using your current cameras. If you want quite a significant change in image quality, then you can take thewireguys advice and get a hybrid, but that would also require that you buy megapixel cams too. However, it wont make your CNB cameras look any better.

Whats wrong with a little wealth spreading. Spread that stuff around like "I cant believe its not butter"

Has anyone had experience using cameras utilizing this chipset before. I have never used any Pixim cameras, let alone the Orca. Any input would be greatly appreciated.

Looking forward to see what all the fuss is about on the blue-i

I seen that you had some trouble with QR414 dvr, did you just not like the cameras or just the DVR? I thought it was one of the best deals around when the DVR without hard-drive was available for super cheap, unfortunately they do not make them anymore as they are discontinued. Definetely not the best, but was a smokin deal for a decent DVR I though. But I thought the manual was great and very explanatory too so perhaps they updated the manual from the time you bought it and the time that I bought it. Anyways, we get some of those Samsung cameras in from time to time from Sams Club Store displays. I still havent got one of those DVR's yet but I am hoping one will come our way. I had several of those cameras a couple of weeks ago but sold them in an auction. If you ever have any go out on you, let me know as I will probably have some extras.

Keep in mind that is where all of the top quality surveillance equipment is made.

I am sure this is easy but I figured I would ask before I give out any advice. I got a customer who has a 4 channel DVR that he can remotely view from his I-phone or the internet from a remote location just fine. He does this by simply visiting his WAN IP address, just for the heck, we will call it: 76.234.587.67 (I just made that up) He also uses the following ports HTTP Port: 80 Other Ports uses: 5050,6050, 7050 So if he is wanting to view that from a remote location, he simply types in 76.234.587.67 on Internet Explorer and voila, he can see his cameras. He wants to add another DVR at that same location, but his question and my question is what IP address does he type in to connect to this DVR? My ASSumption was to simply apply slightly different ports numbers, HTTP Port: 81 Other ports: 5051, 6051, 7051 And whenever he wants to logon remotely to the 2nd DVR, he just types in 76.234.587.67:81 Would this be correct or not? What hurdles would I face if any? And would he still use just 76.234.587.67 to login to his first DVR or would he now need to use 76.234.587.67:80 Thanks for any and all help.

For better results, eliminate motion detection recording and record constantly. Get a bigger hard drive if needed. You can get a 1tb nowadays for under $100.

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