eahheretik

Good morning folks, After a great deal of research I recently purchased the Dahua IPC-HFW4300S. Unfortionately, the red IR lights are visible at night to the naked eye! This makes it impossible to hide these camera locations. Does anybody know, if the Hikvision DS-2CD2032-I has lights that are visible at night to the naked eye? Thanks you in advance, Bob

Is the Hikvision any less visible than the dahua?

Good afternoon folks, I know this isn't a "Video" question, but what are you guys doing for motion detection on your camera systems? I am building a pretty simple analog video system with a few cameras and baluns over Cat5 UTP. Is there such a thing as a POE motion detector? I'm looking for a good way to detect motion in areas I can't afford cameras. Thanks in advance.

That's exactly the sort of thing I'm looking for, thank you for your reply. Any idea what the distance limitation would be? Could I go 1000ft? What sort of unit would you use to manage multiple PIR sensors? Thanks, eahheretik

Hello all, I'm a broadcast video engineer trying to build a small CCTV system for myself to look over a property I maintain. I'm hoping someone can tell me how far I can power a 12VDC Swann Camera on a Cat5 balun. I'm using two pairs of a 1000ft 24AWG Cat5E - one pair for power, one pair for video. I've been looking at this balun kit which says 900ft(300m) for video and power. http://www.cctvcamerapros.com/Cat-5-Video-Balun-p/balun-pv5.htm I'm very curious if any of you have experience with running both power and video at a long distance (I'm trying to go a full thousand feet). Any Balun recommendations?

(Sorry for the double post in the wrong forum) Hello all, I'm a broadcast video engineer trying to build a small CCTV system for myself to look over a property I maintain. I'm hoping someone can tell me how far I can power a 12VDC Swann Camera on a Cat5 balun. I'm using two pairs of a 1000ft 24AWG Cat5E - one pair for power, one pair for video. I've been looking at this balun kit which says 900ft(300m) for video and power. http://www.cctvcamerapros.com/Cat-5-Video-Balun-p/balun-pv5.htm I'm very curious if any of you have experience with running both power and video at a long distance (I'm trying to go a full thousand feet). Any Balun recommendations?

Thanks for the detailed reply! I have no way of getting power at the camera end, so finding a way to do it over Cat5e is critical. Thank you for the info on the 24vac idea. From searching around I had gathered that this would probably be what I would have to end up doing. I found this: APS-ACDC-1500, 24vAC to 12vDC Power Converter http://www.active-vision.com/Power-Converter-p/aps-acdc-1500.htm But I understand this would be used on the camera side, and I would need that 24vAC supply on the receiving end. The product you linked to looks like it might be a bit confusing for me. Do you know of any supply that might be a bit more self contained? Thank you so much for your time.