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Yes if it comes down to it, that is the type of effect I am looking for, without damaging his camera of course. Welcome to the reality of the 21st century – video cameras everywhere. If his cameras are legally placed, learn to live with it. There are things you can do to create your own privacy. This is the reality of the 21st century – you are responsible for your privacy. If you haven’t done so already, put a veil over your bathroom window, plant a vine that grows on a trellis in front of it. It’s a simple solution that you can do yourself. If the cameras are not legally placed, bite the bullet, hire a (gulp) lawyer, and get moving to a legal resolution. Yeah, it’s gonna cost you $$$, but that’s how it works if you want to do this right and get a lasting resolution. If he is calling the city out on you without reason, you have grounds for a restraining order. Get one! The courts hate neighbor disputes, doesn’t want to hear about them, so use a lawyer ($$$) to advise you on the reality of restraining orders. A restraining order hearing is also where you bring up the issue of a camera looking at your bathroom window. You can ask the court to have HIM pay to install a privacy fence on HIS property. Also get a court order that disallows his use of video camera facing your property. The police can be very aggressive in enforcing restraining orders. If he violates a restraining order, call the cops, they will probably take him away in cuffs. We had a very similar problem with a neighbor as you. He was the reason why I got into video cameras in the first place. As soon as the cameras went up, ALL problems went away. Well, all of those problems went away, we now have new ones – almost 3 years later he is putting up video cameras looking nowhere that has anything to do with him or his security. But they are legally placed. We are planning a bamboo curtain, should take a couple years to grow in, we can wait. In the meantime, we are putting up cheap posts with cloth flags along the property line to block his view where we don’t want him to have one. In other areas, hell, I don’t care. It’s his time, he can spend it looking at my norge while I’m weeding. I kind of like the idea that he is literally wasting his time watching video of nothing that matters to anyone that does. As I was reading your series of posts I was getting the impression your issues are becoming less about your privacy and more about your dislike for your neighbor. STOP! Ask yourself, this; exactly what is YOUR issue, and why do YOU care? Put on your seatbelt: You need to grow up – well, kind of. Your nasty neighbor has a right to his cameras. Until he crosses the line and you are willing to pursue him in the proper legal channels, leave him alone. He’s talking about you? – who cares? This is a an issue for children on a playground. It isn’t something that matters to anyone that does matter. Take responsibility for your own privacy and do what you are responsible to do to ensure that privacy. You are a part of your own problem. You can become an even bigger part of your problem by dicking around with your neighbor or his cameras. Don't do it.

That's my thought, too -- voltage drop. DC voltage drops faster than AC -- possible the AC will work, the DC won't. When calculating a conductor's length, be sure to include both directions, power source to the camera, and from the camera back to the power source. It's a round trip.

No, it doesn't. A lens, in this definition, is a series of curved glass or plastic elements that bend light. Along with some supporting structure, and an integral iris to control the amount of light transmitted, that's all there is to it. A lens doesn't know or care what type of camera it's on; all it does is bend light. It works exactly the same whether it's mounted in front of an electronic sensor, or a piece of film, or just a white piece of paper. Cheaper lenses may take advantage of the fact that cheaper, low-res cameras won't show up deficiencies in design and manufacturing, but they work exactly the same as expensive "megapixel" lenses... the higher-resolution cameras are just more likely to make the deficiencies stand out. Well, yes, it may. There is more to lens than just an image coming out the other side, as the OP is discovering. A lens can only resolve so many 'lines' of data. There is a std that optical manfrs use to determine the 'lines'. The more lines, the more detail you get out of the lens's image. A lens outputs an 'image circle' -- literally, the size of the circle with the image in it. The image circle must be at least as large as the sensor in the camera or you would get image clipping in the corners. The image circle is a fixed size, so your sensor is limited in its size. Add more pixels, the diff between 3mp and 5mp, in the same sensor size, and if the lens can't resolve enough lines the 5mp image will resemble the 3mp image. Put a 20mp sensor in the same size with the same lens and it will still look like a 3mp image -- if that is the max of what the lens can resolve. Fwiw, this issue is as old as photography itself. Folks used to think that going to a bigger negative automatically meant more detail, but not always.

I have the KT&C vandal domes installed around the exterior of my home, currently in the process of replacing them with Pelco PTZ. The KT&C domes are mated with a rubber o-ring between the cast aluminum halves. The bottom half has openings for threaded conduit. I have one camera that is vertically mounted on a wall, fully exposed to the elements 24/7, no water ingress in 2-years…so far.

I believe there are even more zoom flavors than just those three, depending on other options of the Spectra series, i.e. color vs b&w camera, etc.

Before installing Motherboard Monitor you may want to verify that your mb is supported. There is supposed to be a list, altho old, of the mbs it supports. From what I have read, support for MBM has been discontinued. Whatever is there is there and will be available for who knows how long, no support for new mbs will be added. Hopefuly it will work for you. Also, you can search cNet's downloads.com for motherboard monitoring and fan speed monitoring for other applications, some paid, some free.

What is RDP and UVnc ? And what are they used for?

I have no experience with the GEO cards so I cannot compare a GEO and an ILDVR. I would love to have read a review/comparison of the GEO and ILDVR before I invested in any DVR cards. The reason I passed on the GEO was because of the negative comments and reviews floating around the internet. There is very, very little written about the ILDVR, nothing negative that I could find so I went with it. Perhaps there is nothing negative written because there are so few ILDVR cards sold? One of the things I like about the ILDVR is that you define the motion detection areas with up to 10 or 12 rectangles per camera view. I think it is the opposite with GEO...you defined the blanking areas of motions detection?!? The difference is vast for preventing false alarms if implementing motion detection on an outside camera that has a lot of foliage in the view. BTW, I would not consider the 'retailer' for ILDVR in Canada/USA as a credible source for information. I suggest contacting ILVDR directly via email. I did talk to one guy in Colorado building high-end custom DVRs ($6K - $10K) for specific applications. He uses the ILDVR cards, claimed they were the best out there. Note: that is this ONE guy's opinion, only. I wish there was a way I could compare the video quality of various DVR cards. Is there a website or something where DVR cards are reviewed? Any side-by-side reviews out there?

I image you are washing your sock, getting ready for the A.N. Smith funeral, but if there is only a few dollars diff I would opt for the Intel board. They have a rep for being a more robust platform. The DVR board manfr recommended I stick with Intel. Fwiw, I started out looking at the ATX boards but decided I want to keep the heat down inside of the chassis to reduce the fan noise. Makes for an overall quieter system. Any chance you could toss up a few cameras and stream the festivities for us?

Sounds like the ILDVR card I am using. It comes with server software and client software on the DVD. You load the server s/w onto your DVR and all of the other computers that want to watch the cameras load the client s/w. Use the admin function to assign accts that allow anything from total access and control to limiting who gets to see which cameras, who can and who can’t initiate remote PTZ control, etc. You define which cameras have which resolution and which frame rate for the DVR, and also what the streaming resolution and frame will be. They need not be the same, so the DRV records at a higher frame rate/res while remote monitoring may be lower res and frame rate, depending on your LAN/WAN bandwidth. On the client end, if the boss has access to all 12 channels, he can choose to look at only 1 or 2 or 3 or whateve specific channels and ignore the rest. ILDVR 3000H4C/4 – 4 channels of CIF, or 2 channels of D1. ILDVR 3000H4C/8 – 8 channels of CIF or 4 channels of D1 ILDVR 3000H4C+ …the cards with the ‘plus’ means the H264 video compression is done with chips on the card instead or using the DVR's CPU for that task. This reduces the CPU’s oomph which reduces heat in the chassis, which reduces fan noise … But it also means your wallet gets lighter. The "+" cards cost more. http://www.ildvrusa.com/ildvr3000h4C4.htm I am not an expert with the ILDVR cards but I will try and answer any questions you have. Also, the folks at the place where they are made in China are extremely helpful and friendly, and they have always responded quickly to my emails. http://www.ildvr.com/

I went with a D945GNT specifically for the embedded video capability (has overlay function) and matrix-RAID for the HDDs. The onboard video is just fine for CCTV with capture boards I am using. http://www.intel.com/products/motherboard/d945gnt/ See my bragging at the end of this RAID thread: http://www.cctvforum.com/about6857-15.html

On the remote I don't see any illumination at all. The IR LED is behind black plastic. When I was out in the dark illuminating my face I didn't know if anything was working of not, couldn't see a thing until I played back the DVR and saw my face flashing. IR illumination makes the eyes look anti-Christ spooky!!!

My eyeball cannot see anything coming from any of the remotes. I can only see flashes of light (remotes 'strobe' their commnads) only when I point a remote at the KT&C camera, or if I illuminate something with the remote's flashing light that gets picked up by the camera. To see the result I have to play it back on the DVR because my eyeball can't see whatever the remote control is illuminating. I have not tried it with the Pelco cameras yet to see if it can also pick up IR above 930nm like the KT&C cameras do. You can test any of your cameras with a TV remote. Just point the remote at the camera and punch buttons. Try holding the vol. button. If the camera shows a bunch of flashes coming out of the end of the remote the camera is seeing above 930nm.

Thanks, BurstElement (what a name! ) That is exactly where my question originates from, looking at speed domes.

Nope! Sorry… I have a handful of KT&C cameras, the day/night vandal domes. They can’t see crap at night without external lighting. (For reference, they will pick up whatever a regular 15w bulb illuminates out to about 5 or 6-ft away from the bulb.) Out of curiosity I took the remote control for my TV (uses IR above the visible spectrum) and ventured out into complete darkness, faced the remote at my face, and started punching buttons. Wholly beejeeze!!! Flashes of the worlds ugliest demonic face was recorded on my DVR!!! The KT&C camera picked up whatever was illuminated by the invisible light of the remote controls for my TV, DVD player, stereo … I tried ‘em all. Andrew - The KT&C is a great vandal dome! Ok, bad news, 1 out of 4 KT&C cameras were faulty, had to be replaced. If I have a complaint about my KT&C cameras it is the lack of dynamic range that leads to dark areas at night and washed out areas during bright light. I am in the process of replacing some of the KT&C cameras with housed Pelco CCC1390’s. I will keep some of the KT&C for use above doorways to capture faces where there is always light. I don’t care about whatever else is in the picture for that application.