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Depends on the camera housing, i've installed or maintained many mounted directly to the metal that never had a problem. Use a piece of plastic or wood as backing, or in some cases using an isolated power supply (or separate power supplies) will also help.

I almost forgot .. another story. I had a camera that would get video loss occasionally, sometimes a few times a day, sometimes not at all. It only started a few months after it was installed - prior to that the previous camera was fine. Thought maybe it was the camera, so switched that for a spare one we had - same problem. It would stay off for hours sometimes. Anyway, so they ordered a completely different camera just because, same problem - moved the connection on the power supply to another output - same thing. What did fix the problem was this - ran new wire. Problem solved. Visually the existing cable looked fine tracing it back as much as possible, power at the camera end was always fine when tested, but either way we replaced it and had no more issues since.

Well the basic test is to try a separate power supply, still a problem then its a bad camera. Bad cameras these days seem like a dime a dozen regardless of brand - recently had a $2000 Bosch camera go dead on me after only a few days, and it was on a good APC Voltage Regulator. Oh yeah, make sure you are not using the same channel on the DVR, switch it to one of the ones where the cameras work. I had a bad DVR card last summer, some channels were just bad, not a connector problem either, it was like the 4th of each one, eg. 4, 8, 12, etc, no matter which camera was placed on it. EDIT, sorry forgot about the camera re initializing, forget this test then

Does it ever make it into BW? Looks like it almost might be the switchover to BW from color.

And is the distance to this camera longer than the other ones? What type of cable are you using to power it?

Grab something like a 12VDC laptop power supply which will be more than enough amps and try just that camera with it, then you will know at least if its the camera or not. BTW if it needs 1A just for example, then you should go over to like 1.2A or more common 1.5A. Which would explain that 4x1.2=4.8, not leaving enough for the other camera. Did you try and move the camera power cables around on the PSU?

According to the specs power consumption is only 6.8 watts with the IR on, probably in 24VAC so double it for 12VDC. 6.8 watts looks to be 500ma? http://www.samsungsecurity.co.uk/upload/products/SCO-2080R/download/20100408_0_20100408SCO-2080R_2P_E.pdf Regardless, I would try a larger PSU. 4A is pushing it though, even the $2000 powerful Extreme IR cameras only use 2A for 12VDC and those are DUAL cameras with all kinds of boards and IR with heat sinks - though the newer ones use around 3A but they are twice the size of the older models, which were 4 times the size of a little bullet camera like this samsung. I just dont see how that little bullet will consume 4A, it makes no sense, that has to be a typo. And when I say little, it is compared to the Extreme Dual cameras.

I've never seen conduit 10x the size of cat5, that must be pretty big.

unless you have a huge house, i would just run RG59 siamese.

uhh no sir .. this is pretty much it for me.

Radio Shack or most local electronic stores.

Yeah thats the TDN one Im looking to test out. They have cheaper 550TVL ones but the 700s are the newest. Search for this model: KPC-VDE101NUV17 That is what the US stores are listing. They also have an indoor 700TVL with 3.6mm at a remarkably low price. http://www.ktnc.co.kr/english/viewtopic.php?t=944 Model: KPC-DSP81NUB

Yeah the 701 has good specs, I emailed a couple stores to see if or when they think they can get them .. no word yet. Takes a while for them to get on this side of the globe. The 700 is the old one that is sold everywhere. Im not too sure about the external focus though, every camera I tested with that so far sucked for that alone, but hopefully theirs is better. One of the members here has a smaller brand camera like that for half the cost .. might be worth looking at also.

chief, I had the 1304 net, not anything called a "steel" although it felt like I got robbed at $400 for a cheap DVR. And yes that was 3 years ago.

So you are actually trying to tell me I bought a DVR from Avermedia 3 years ago that they stopped making 7 years ago, even though every store on the planet was selling it 3 years ago??? Pullease .. And I would hardly call $400 dealer price the lowest budget DVR, AND BTW I used their DVR CARD. if someone likes being limited to using some crappy little calculator OS then whatever .. I pity them if anything. People talk bout this feature and that but most the time it simply sucks, most times it would be less painful pulling all 4 wisdom teeth than trying to use mobile phone features. Get a real computer and stop playing around. Lets look at price of Geo GV-600 compared to Avermedia Hybrid, cheaper AND free IP using Geo IP cameras. Never used POS so dont really care. Mobile phones I could care less about also. Well obviously it is not 72% of Geovision cards that are clones, otherwise they would not be a clone. What chip limitation? The 600 works on anything. But back to the Avermedia software, it simply sucks, it sucked back then and you still said it was great, if its so great now, post some screenshots or sample videos showing how great it is. But anyway if thats what you like then so be it. I cant believe you have me defending Geo ..

Perhaps I can call and sell you a bridge over the Atlantic ocean Sounds like he was a good salesman Well providing it is a legit card (as there are many Fake Geo's out there), and it is up to date, then it would also support 32 IP cameras.

You sure bout that? cause the avermedia software for their DVR cards and the other avermedia stand alone I used all sucked big time, i mean they sucked more than Geo.

That camera is not polarity sensitive for 12VDC or 24VAC so you can connect the red and black power wire to either side of the terminals on that green jack.

the old cheap DVRs sucked back in the day, they were terrible for evidence sharing.

Well having used Wavereader for years, I would say most DVRs today have more network features than that, and more importantly the network video quality can be much better today. Wavereader is probably older than you are

If using an F connector, but normally we use BNC connectors, then BNC to RCA. You could even bypass that alltogether by cutting the end of an RCA cable and splicing that to the RG59, if you want it right away and cant get the connectors today.

you have to plug it into the AV input on the TV. Normally the yellow RCA input.

use the monitor output plugged into a capture card on a PC (or another DVR with USB/Lan) and record what you playback.

You interrupt writing to a hard drive when you stop writing to it. Yes with the billions of power outages over the years while writing to a hard drive I have never run into it. File corruption with some open software, certainly. Loss of data with open files, ofcourse. Physical damage? Zero. Thats because I use a voltage regulator. Have been doing so from 1996. Everyone with hard drive problems I have come across, are ones without Voltage Regulators. Although the PSU is the most common thing to go first. Basically if someone has a hardware problem and they are not using AVR, then I am not surprised. So like I said, its just been my experience.

Ive been pulling the plug from my Windows PC for the past decade .. no issue. Power outages several times a week with no UPS. Major brownouts galore .. only time I lost a hard drive, was when I unplugged my PC from the Voltage Regulator and plugged it into a Surge Protector, literally happened within an hour, and we were lucky enough to get a brownout at the time. With the DVRs I just pull the plug thats a given.