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Wow thats like $365 a week. I think minimum wage here is under $200 a week. Although you guys do get taxed to high heaven ..

They shouldn't go in public then

someone said this... "if they want to reduce crime they should put more officers on the street. there are NONE around here. cctv doesn't prevent crimes happening. it just helps find who did it" i pretty much second that. in my area where i live the police force is pretty much non existent (it was the same before all the cuts) i would very much welcome one or two PCSOs or police officers walking up and down the roads and park at peak crime times. cameras DO prevent some crimes. but not very many. all that will end up happening is all the 'bad men' will end up wearing full face masks all the time which just makes the public feel more intimidated. Bad men dont wear masks, they think they are tough, they dont care about going to jail. The jails and prisons there need to get tougher, its like a 5 star hotel compared to the prison here. But even here the bad men/women dont care .. they are used to living in such filthy and violent 3rd world conditions.

England is looking like the middle east these days.

Probably not. I missed that part.

Have you used any with White or Silver housings yet? Just curious if that might help in your case.

Its 7fps D1 each channel (120fps D1 max record). Not Full D1.

You will want either bullet cameras, or box cameras in housings. If you get an IR bullet and are concerned about the daytime look, get one that is a TDN (ICR) which has a mechanical IR cut filter - blocks IR in the day, removes the filter at night. If you do use domes, try to keep them under an overhang, or seal them up good. If you add alot of light, then all you need are color only cameras, unless you want the IR for backup.

Also try adjusting the camera height up or down.

I would say that 40' is likely on edge of the IR, they always over specify the IR distance - so whatever IR distance is claimed, always cut it in half for actual outdoor IR in a large area. Speed bumps would be a option. Also try adjusting the AGC and shutter if it has that in the settings.

any free computer I can get that can run xp. xp netbook for mobile work. i dont waste my time with cell phones and tablets.

Not cheap. But this has a heat sink design as well: http://products.boschsecurity.us/en/TAMS/products/bxp/SKU16458606192954293771-CATMc2772c44d289b1849e7be2d70397eb66

IR will create more heat as mentioned (although only at night). Best thing would be to look for a low current 24VAC camera that sees in very low light. Then add the IR separately if needed. But the other important thing is to make sure the housing is white.

Edit. Ok LOL after looking up Truss on google I guess we have them, please excuse my ignorance on that.

Thats short range IR and looks like its too dark. Need to get it closer to the vehicles, and will likely only get them if the vehicles are head on with the camera. Very rare though do even the best LPR cameras get plates 100% of the time, and those cameras cost in the $2000+ range.

Codes differ the world over. For example, we have much more stricter building codes for hurricanes than even Florida USA does, although their codes for everything else is likely 100% stricter than ours. Although I am not a builder so I cannot say for certain. I know one thing though, my apartment has no vents at all, in fact there are no eaves. I dont even know what a truss is so maybe we dont even have those here?

Have to remember homes are built differently all over. Ive come across homes with brick all the way to the roof, making access to the eaves with a snake next to impossible. Then there is all the AC duct which stops you in your path, and in smaller attics the fiberglass insulation alone will prevent any access there in person or with a snake. In addition there are the add ons where they blocked off an entire section of the house from another.

Had them outside for 10 years at one house on the ocean. They aren't water sealed though if that's what you mean.

Any local electrical store should carry it.

Some choices are conduit or wire mold.

The camera will likely compensate for low light so the darker it is the more noise there will be. But the IR should work for 20-30' on that Dome (in theory as I havent used it). IR specs are always overrated for all cameras. Do you see the IR at all? Do you have a snapshot of it? One thing to try is to adjust the AGC and DNR. Adjusting the AGC could make it darker though, but less noise. Adjusting the DNR could make it look a little more digitized. Also turning down the contrast on the DVR for that channel will decrease some of the noise.

CNB's use video to switch over, not a photocell. Check that it is actually switching to BW.

That cable wouldn't last a few feet on most jobs RG59 siamese even got ripped on a job I am pulling now.

I miss New York alot, but the snow I do not. I left right after the blizzard of 96 .... that seems like a whole life time ago. Anyway going to turn the AC on to try and get some sleep now

Define "higher end" These days cost does not necessarily tell us how good a product is, especially when dealing with big brand names. This is even more true when dealing with Infrared. When it comes to IR bullets, most big brands just relabel something out of Asia, literally. Now when it comes to extreme infrared, thats a different story. Extreme CCTV IR cameras used to the the king - now, although their IR is great, IMO their cameras suck as they put them all in one - btw Extreme is now owned by Bosch, but they literally have done away with most of the original Extreme CCTV designs which made it King. Originally Extreme sold on the use of 2 separate cameras, one for day and the other for night and IR - now that was great, it worked great, they still work great (I have one in the field for 10 years now) - nobody else was doing this (now some Asian manufacturers try to mimic it but they still dont even come close). NOW, having one camera do the job of two and really only doing a good job at one application (IR), yet charging a fortune for it .. IMO its not worth it. I've used the new Bosch IR cameras and I was not impressed with the day image, especially since it costs over $2000. The IR does blow away the average TDN IR bullet though. In reference to DVRs, I used Kalatel for years (later sold under GE), they were at the time the king of DVRs, literally they were awesome, after all there wasnt much else out there anyway - DM was twice the price and about the same anyway (shipped in from the UK). There were no Bosch or Samsung. And the Kalatel price tag was huge, $5,000-10,000 first cost easy for a basic 16 channel DVR, depending on what HDD you ordered it with (average diff between HDD sizes was $500). When I say basic, a $140 DVR these days blows it away in features, and unlike with budget DVRs a few years ago, these are actually stable. Back then for a 1TB DVR you were paying anywhere from $8,000-$12,000. Not to mention we had to REALLY use a specific HDD when the HDD failed .. or they were next to useless - I think it was like a Samsung 5400rpm IDE drive, which literally was special ordered - sure there were later power upgrades that allowed 7200rpm drives etc, and since then I HAVE used other drives, but in many cases at the time the power upgrades came along with a cost to travel for training just to obtain the kit. Since then it's changed but thats how it was at one time. Recall prior to the Kalatel DVRs we were using VCRs and for remote video we used telephone transmission devices - this was just before Broadband Internet. The Kalatels later branded under GE were some of the first real DVRs with networking features. After that era came the "better" generation of PC DVRs (eg. Iview, Geovision, and many others), though that was also based on the upgrades to the OS used for them, eg XP, which got much better from SP2 onward. As the PC DVR got better I switched as I needed higher than CIF resolution for backup (GE-Kalatel DVRs only ever had limited evidence sharing resolution) - lets just say that was fun and leave it at that. Dont get me wrong, PC DVRs has its place and I still support them, but in most cases I simply switch them out for a stand alone now - but each case can differ. Back to stand alone DVRs ... even 2 years ago, Avtech was king of budget DVRs, it was THE goto for budget DVRs. Sure there were Aposonic, Argus, and others, but Avtech was and still is known in the CCTV industry for that. However, it lacks in more areas than I care to speak of in this post, lets just say I personally had one for a few years - it was free - but everytime I had to backup video it was like pulling teeth. I eventually just gave it away. Then like the spider along came the new generation of Chinese DVRs .. full of features and loaded to the teeth with the latest firmware, software, and support for all of the grandest of mobile phones and tablets - at SUCH a low price tag. You have DVRs from Chinese manufacturers with HDD support of up to 24TB+ , while more well known larger Korean brands such as Samsung could only dream of it. Real time D1 every channel is now affordable for everyone, including the poor. Regular firmware updates, full SDK availability, and online support that in many cases beats the big brands .... what else can one wish for? So higher end .. its just a word these days.