sneg_mike

Thanks for the reply a little while back I contacted my place of purchase, they are out of warranty but did offer to fix / have a look at them but I do not any down time with out the cameras ( sending them back to cctv discover.com in china) you say the foam may be breaking down, where could I buy replacement foam from I might give that a try, as for the roof overhang its about 200mm but the cameras are pointed right down away from that as it is a double story home

Yes and Yes, during the day its fine, no protective film for the first few months the cam was working great with ir at nite time its slowly getting more and more cloudy

My IR at nite time is terrible, so Ive been told and from what I have looked up in this forum im getting IR bounce back off of the dome of the camera. "This can generally be corrected by making sure the isolation ring around the lens of the camera is seated properly to the inside of the glass globe" I took off the cover and pulled the rubber ring out some more and played around with it, but the IR is still just as bad what am I doing wrong and is there a "correct way" to do this ? mike.

thanks guys I will give both a try

Hey Guys Need help at first I thought it was the Cam and was going to buy a new one. From what I was reading up looks to be a power problem, I think, one of you guys will know right away. The cam goes from working fine to slowly color loss to flicking to black then come back on fine some time later. this has been happening for a while now, and Ive had enough of it thanks vid link

fixed it it was a sub stream setting, thanks for your help guys

Sub stream settings where can I find these ? on the drv it self ? thanks mike.

update for anyone interested... I had to pull of some roof sheets last weekend, whilst I was doing that I thought Id give this rotted cable another try one year on... and guess what 4 meters ( meters not mm) in from the original mounting point the cable still had rot, I gave it a go anyway striped it back put a joiner and connected some fresh cable to it, and hey presto video signal was fine nice and clear, my back yard cam is now working !

Hey guys I can not work this one out has any one experienced this ? Every thing worked fine with remote view iphone / my galaxy tab isp changed ip, so I did what needed to be done. now... 3 of the 8 cams, come up with a black screen with the time, date and cam name but no picture further more you can use the ptz controls on the app to move the cam and you can see it moving on the tv whilst the app just has the black screen I have tried 4 different apps so far both iphone and tablet both on home net work and 3g oh also happens in ie too! mike.

Since this is your own property, you may be able to afford such expensive cable, it would definitely be worth it. In the commercial world however there isn't enough margin left to blow it all on expensive cable. I still feel that Cat5e outdoor cable with passive baluns will do you better. If you want to use Cat5e outdoor cable until the cable enters the property, you can then get an IDC junction box and switch to standard solid core Cat5e which is easier to work with and a lot more economic. If you don't have an IDC punchdown tool you can get plastic disposable ones for about $1 or less. The one below will also strip the outer jacket of Cat5 without nicking the inner cores. One more thing buy some wire end ferrules and use then when connecting into the baluns at each end they will improve the connection (24awg) thanks for the advice but its too late now the house is built ! at that stage I did have over 150m left of cat6 from when I was doing the data. still being new to this I was unaware of passive baluns and their use.

I say "WFT" because the other 4 cables where fine and this one was the best protected from them all. lol no penny's here is Australia

For my back yard cam I ran siamese cable when I will building under 12 months ago I left about 300mm of cable hanging under the eaves went to fit off the cam today and all the copper braid had rotted ! broke away and was like charcoal ! wft ? I striped back about another 200mm and still was rotted ? not too sure what to do here ?

lol hamster spanky34... your on the money. yes it was the wrong power adapter hooked up to the DVR, which took me half a day to work out ! the power adapter was from an old printer. Darn old technology box.. you know we all have one, mine has 2 ipods, psp, game boy few usb cables, lol and a stack of nokia chargers

nope not that

so.. I fixed the problem, any one care to know what it was ?