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In a situation where I want to monitor/record cars going down the street in front of my house (No LPR), what FPS is recommended? The IP cam will be 5 feet away from street with an IR illuminator a few feet above said camera. I was going to use a 6mm lens cam for a tight high quality pic of just the road and cars. I have no idea what FPS cams do best with at night when there are moving cars and people in the road.

Silly question, but have you tried a hard reset? I ma not sure if the Honeywell DVRs have a reset button though.

What is the safest and more efficient way to wire/power 3 IR illuminators? Each one has a 3A wall power supply, but I want to eliminate plugging in 3 different things and run the wire outside. The IR illuminators are 12v.

How do most fisheye cams perform in low light environments since most do not have IR LEDs. I was looking at a Samsung Techwin SNF-7010, but cannot find any reviews on how it performs outside at night. I guess a couple of nearby street lights would greatly help the situation.

I bought a CMVision IR illuminator. I want to cut off the female power adater on the back and wire it directly to a power supply. Once the adater is removed how can I determine which wire is positive and which wire is negative? If I am not sure and I wire it incorrectly will I fry my illuminator or do most have protection preventing incorrect wiring?

Once it arrives on monday, i will do a test and compare the built-in ACTi IR LEDs to the new illuminator.

http://www.cmvision.co/products/cmvision-ir9-wideangle-60-80-degree-9pc-power-led-ir-array-illuminatorcopy-of-cmvision-cm-ir15-wide-angle-15pc-power-ir-led-illuminator.html

Thanks. Im looking at a CMVision IR9 i believe. It has 9 (i think) large LEDS. 49 dollars on CMVisions amazin page and same price from their corporate webpage.

Thanks for the assistance. The IR illuminator I am looking at uses 12v. Will any 12v wall adter work or do I need to know how many amps the illuminator uses? The product description does not state amperage. I know it uses 18W.

I am trying to light up the street. My cams are mounted on the house which is 30' away from the street.I dont have anything closer to the street to mount illuminators on unfortunately.

Anybody have any experience/input with cheap IR illuminators? for example an IR illuminator with 98 LEDs or 200 LEDs? I prefer a Raytec, but I could buy multiple cheap ones for the same price. Any suggestions are appreciated.

How do you ground an IP camera? My ACTi cams are wired to my POE network switch. The switch is plugged into a grounded outlet via a UPS. Does that mean I am safe, or do I need to do anything else.

The ACTi cam i want can store raw files or avi i think. Will raw save me space on my NVR? Is either one better.

thanks for the input. i was going to buy a Solstice NVR since it is compatible with my existing ACTI cams. I will have to check whether Hikvision cams will work with Solstice.

Thank you for the assistance. Can you suggest any 2-3MP IP cams that you would buy? I would like to research the 2-3MP cams since that is probably going to be my best bet.