Chromo

OK, I need a system for less than $500 that will get the job done! I'll rephrase it since I'm sure a great system is not in my price range! LOL Here's what I need and thinking of. The property only has road frontage to front and side/rear are fenced. There is about 4 buildings taking maybe 200ft frontage side to side I need to watch. From building fronts to HY is maybe 20' more or less, this is where the vehicles of thieves would pull in and needs watched the most with most detail. I am thinking of an 8ch or 16ch system like a Q-see or Zmodo with 4 700TVl cameras to watch this frontage. I need to identify perps vehicles and people as they get out of vehicles. Also that area is where most action would take place like damaging my vehicles parked there or entering buildings. I also want as many cameras as possible of the best quality I can afford to watch the doors, interior of buildings, and sides of buildings. There is allot to watch to see what people do when there, but mostly only 200ft or so where they can arrive so that is where I really need the best camera's to identify them. Once they are identified on the property clearly I think a less quality video just showing what they tampered with or stole should be good enough till I can afford a much better system to identify them everywhere in high detail. Help with what and where to buy it would be appreciated! PLEASE, don't say wait till I can afford the better stuff as i NEED it now and can't afford the better stuff! That property was broke into last month and the thieves were staying there and stealing stuff for 5 days! They stole gas from many of my vehicles which have been parked there for years. That is how I caught them! I drove up one day and they were trying to get their car started. Idiots stole gas from both tanks of a P/U truck I had parked in the shop 5years ago and it probably had bad gas then, they ruined their own car! I had them arrested and pressing lots of charges, but of course our great legal system let them out for now. At least one of them showed back up and busted out the side window of a van since then. 6years or more everything been fine there till now! I haven't been there much for 2 years do to travels and health problems and in a rural area, so they figured it an easy target! Another thing I need a system for right away is I do stay there for a few days at times. If they show up and I catch them some night I don't know what they may do. I fully intend to use deadly force to protect myself if needed, any type of camera to show they made a threatening move towards me would be a good thing to have! They now know I have no phone there and cell phone does not work either because the day I caught them my wife had to go down the road to neighbors to call police for me! So they know I can't call the police, and I can't bluff them that I already called and police on the way either. So it's defend myself if they try to attack and with a bad leg/hip and back I can't whoop but hand to hand like I once could. That leaves me with fire arms as my best option for self-defense!

Many reasons! No knowlegde of any of the systems! No money for HighEnd equipment Fast easy to set up, not weeks to figure out Not Tech savey to figure it out very fast other reason also! For me I need something fast and cheap! It's not a matter of waiting till I have the money to do it right, I need to catch the thieves NOW! Not in 4 weeks when I moght have a Ip system figured out part way! I had a property busted into and for about 5 days the thieves lived there and were in and out stealing a bit at a time. They stole gas out of many of my vehicles and it just so happened they hit both tanks on a PU truck that was parked about 5years and had some really nasty rank gas and luckily they ruined their car! I just happened to pull in over there that day while they were trying to get their car running again and caught them red handed and had them arrested. Our lousy legal system let them out while waiting for court dates, which got post postponed once already! One of them came back and busted out a van side window. Caught them about 1 month ago and 1.5 weeks ago the window got busted out. Being most the vehicles are within about 20-25 feet of the buildings I think a 700TVL camera would have caught them on video well enough to prosecute. During the 5days they shacked up there it would be nice to know what all they were stealing and when also. I keep finding more things missing all the time, and remember now and then this should have been here but is not, that was there but not now, etc... probably any 480-700TVL would had shown a bicycle being carried out of my shop, I did not even know it was missing till the wife asked me where it was, NOW I have put that on the report also as stolen. They got the key box with my vehicle keys, now I am worried they may try to steal a car and haul in for scrap iron, a 700TVL would probable identify them hooking up a car to drag it off if camera located in right place. YES, I want all the BEST STUFF! I have maybe $500 to spend if I really cut my budget to the bone for everything else like the holidays and travel, or just forget those! So not knowing any better I am looking at the analog systems with motion activation, trying for 700TVL cameras and at least four of those. What I want is at least an 8 channel system with 4 cameras now to watch the road frontage, maybe get cheaper 420TVL Cameras to add on the watch the sides and rear. If I can Identify them driving in and getting out of the car we know who they are, then even if grainy not good video to id them elsewhere we may still see what they are doing, and we will already know who they are from the front cameras. Wait till I have more money for a better system than I can afford right now? Everything I own may be gone by then! Sure I can save up for a year and study and learn the workings of the better stuff, but can you say for sure the thieves or their friends won't be back next month? Will they be nice and wait till I can afford the better stuff to catch them with? Also, for some area's I may not care about quality as long as some actions are on video and maybe audio also. I sometimes stay there at night, I do fully intend to protect myself if threatened in any way, that likely will mean a bullet! I only need video good enough to show they made a move at me I considered threatening! I don't know what those scumbags may do if they break in at 2am and I am there to catch them again. No phone there and cell does not work either, so I can't just call the cops, I'll have to defend myself if needed! So any video that shows they swung an object like a pipe or jug wrench at me proves self defense!