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Now that is an awesome feature!! I might have to trade in the Dewalt's for that option!!

Today I go back to Miami at 5 in the morning to finish up, and on the way home at 3:30 I run in to another squall from the storm Fay!! When will this thing go away???!!! LOL!

Strike a nerve? If you threw a ball at a barn you would miss! LOL!

http://scorpiontheater.com/cpcamtechsupport.aspx or http://211.22.74.18/ Glad to hear that you can enjoy your DVR again! You will find the Video Server E on that page if you ever find yourself at a strange computer, and you need to remote view in.

If you do not have a manual then you can download it from the website.

PIN 1. GND GROUND PIN 2. ~ PIN 9. ALARM INPUT To connect wire from ALARM INPUT ( PIN 2 -- 9 ) to GND ( PIN 1 ) connector, DMR will start recording and buzzer will be on. When Menu/ Camera/ Alarm is set up to “Lowâ€

After that comment then watch my pupils turn red, and the steam from my ears! LOL!

Oh boy! At least it is a start!

I'mmmmmmmmmmmmm baaaaaaAAAAAAaaaaaaaaack! Now lets get this hurricane party started! http://www.cctvforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=13960

Hey Chromatic! You gave away my source!! LOL! Sec Cam Dir does not buy these DVRs anymore, but they sure do have a lot of them in stock!!! It is interesting as I noticed that they are peeling the KTL logo off of them now! Strange? I guess the contract is up!

I love how the news cameras will video the flooded areas, and mobile home parks, or parking lots with cars up to the windows with water. If you did not know better you would think all 60 miles north to south of Brevard County was under two feet of water! I almost fell out of my chair. The video did not match the news anchor comments. They were talking about the flooding, and the video was of an obcene amount of murky water, and I am thinking where is this at?!?! Then the camera man pulls back on the lens, and it was the ocean surf where it is only about 4 to 8 inches high, and the water comes in, and out with the waves! At first the video looked liked the mississippi river running through Brevard County then the camera man pulls back and it just surf water at the beach! Whew! __________________________________________________________ We have a lot of canals along side of our roadsides. A National Guard driver pulled his HUMVEE off to the side of the road, and found the canal under all of the water the hard way. I cannot says as I blame his accident. The canal was hidden by flooded water. Us locals know where to park, but the tow truck driver was having a good laugh pulling out a military vehicle that was submerged! ___________________________________________________________ It turns out that the water was only turned off in a couple of streets to include ours as a water main broke around the other side of our block. Last night the city dropped off a box of water. It was unusual because the water bottles had the City Of Palm Bay Label on them! I thought that was a touch of class! And they delivered a case door to door! I have to say I was impressed. I felt for the city worker who had to go house to house in the hard rain though!

http://scorpiontheater.com/Documents/Hardware_Reset CPD505-7.pdf Cut and paste in to your browser. _____________________________________________________________ Here is the webpage it is on. You will have to scroll all the way down to the bottom before you see it. http://scorpiontheater.com/cpcamtechsupport.aspx

Everything looks good so far! You will have to test the cameras with that IR on your house to find out whether they are to strong or not. You may find that they send out a very narrow beam, and by having four cameras shooting to the street that this may give you the wide IR coverage that you need. Give it a try and let us know how it works! I do not think a camera above 480 would be worth the money. I would suggest those if you have a high end DVR.

Have you tried Video Server E ?

Can you PM me what wholesaler sales those pen DVRs? Thank you very much!

I am confused to your request. If they are upgrading to a DVR then this means that they do not have a DVR at this time. The central monitoring HUB as you describe must mean that it is a multiplexor of some sort. You know what they say about assume, and I may be wrong. If the cameras are using coax, and BNC connectors then you should have no problems putting in any kind, and any brand of DVR. You appear to be a CCTV installer and I am fearful of giving all of the tips that I would normally give to a DIY person as I would not want to offend, or to bore you to death. I will add some tips for the readers who come across this post in the future who themselves may be the do it yourselfer (DIY). If you are providing a one year warranty on your work the by all means repull the cable!! How old is it? What is the old wire's life span? Are you in a coastal area where you may have salt that is in the air, or a high humidity area that may affect the wire. It may be good to go today, but in 8 months you may have to go back constantly for issues. In the begining you are more likely to go back and cut off the connector, and cut the wire back 6 inches to get to fresh copper, and reterminated the connector. There will come a day where you have to repull a wire because of constant video loss. This can be a pain as it disrupts the organization, and the job of repulling wire can interfere with their day to day operations. It would be better to pull wire now while it part of the "installation" rather than later. The other question is what kind of COAX is it? If it is broadband cable that is used for the Cable Company then this is the wrong kind of coax. The coax needs to be copper center conductor, and the braid has to be copper. The cable company uses steel center conductor with a copper coating. This works for the cable company, but not for camera video. If you do not repull the wire then get something in writing that you are not responcible for the wiring, and get a signature! If you want to avoid rewiring it then quote a real high dollar amount to do it, and they will refuse because they cannot afford it, and down the road if there is an issue you can point back that you recommended that they install new wire, and that they refused, and now the ball is back in their court.

http://scorpiontheater.com/cpcamtechsupport.aspx Enjoy you 787! 1. It is a series of trade offs. If you have a small size hard drive then you may want to use CIF to have a longer time frame of storage. If you have a large HDD and storage time is not of the essence then use the Frame. 2. IPS or Grouped. If you have two important cameras then put the first one on camera one, and the second important camera on to channel five. This will allow channel one to get the most ips in that group, and the other camera to get the most ips in the second group (1-4) (5- (9-12) (13-16). Where this makes the difference are cameras that are outside. Front yard cams, or parking lot cams get a lot of motion activity where backyard, or courtyard, or slow moving aisle do not get a lot of motion. 3. I am not sure what you are refering to, but I believe that you are asking where it will show you one camera at a time in sequence. The dwell time is the time that is "sits" on a camera before it shows the next one. The shorter the dwell time the faster the cameras run through. The larger the dwell time the longer it takes to see each camera, and the longer it takes to go through all of the cameras and get back to the one that you do want to see. There is a trade off that have to find. If it is to fast then you miss details as it scans through the cameras, and if you have to much dwell then activity can be missed on the unseen cameras. 4. This is a decision only you can make. Try both ways. Which ever looks good for you is the one to go with. This will depend on the cameras that you have hooked up, and what kind of TV / Plasma / LCD you have hooked up. 5. This is not a Parallel port (external I/O). You can have more fun playing with the Disk Array port. No one has reported any hacking features that I am aware of. You will have to be more specific about hooking alarm systems to the DVR. I am not sure what you have in mind. Is security of the essence? Do you have a million dollars in cash under your bed? Do you need to avoid false alarms with your monitoring company? Motion detection triggers all the time, and this will put an alarm signal out. If you hook this up to an alarm panel that is monitored then the alarm company is going to get tired of the constant alerts. For none threat situations, but you want a visual notification then hook up a strobe light. When motion is triggered then the strobe goes off, and then you are alerted to look at the monitor. If you use motion detectors to trigger the camera channel then the monitor should show that camera when triggered. If the area is a controlled area meaning indoors with locked doors, or electronic access then you can hook the alarm output of the DVR to a phone dialer that has a built in digital voice recorder. You record to the dialer such as "There is a break in at 123 ABC street anywhere contact me by cellular at (123) 456 7899" Have the dialer call several numbers such as your home number, your cell number, and a trusted business partner, or a trusted friend, and have it call a store manager, or a wife's cell phone. Now you can determine if the police needs to be called as you can use the internet to view the cameras to see if it is a false trigger! What do you think? Did I answer most of your questions?

I am not familiar with that model number, but in the past I saw a lot of KTL DVRs that were AVTech DVRs rebranded. Go to this website, and see if you see your DVR in the pictures: http://scorpiontheater.com/cpcamtechsupport.aspx There is company that sells the KTL DVR as the 4002, the 4004, the 4005. These are the AVTech AVC 780, the AVC 774, the AVC 772. You may have one of the AVTech DVRs if you are lucky. If you can match your DVR to one on this website then you can download the manual. Where did you buy the DVR? I can go to their website, and see if I can find a manual for you. Good luck!

You cannot get anything for $500.00. For that budget get one varifocal 3mm - 12 mm vandal proof, water proof camera such as this one: http://avssys.net/?s=product&sub=camera&cat=outdoor&p=vnd49ir Wire this back to a VCR and get 8 hour tapes. If you want to do 24 hour recording then you will need 3 tapes a day. I suggest one tape a day for one week, or in the case of 24 hour recording then you will need 24 tapes. This way if you need to go back 3 days to check on something then you have that capability. Later you can add a 4 channel DVR, and build your system up over time. Be very careful of those "all in one systems in a box" that you may find at Wally World, or Samantha's Club, or cost to go. What you want to avoid is the camera system where they have phone jacks or din plugs. All of the cameras will plug in to the main monitor which has the power supply built inside. Do not get me wrong. If this is all of the money that you have, and you decide to buy an all in one then do so. I am only trying to future proof your system. What happens is that the monitor may go out some day. Most TV repaiir shops will not work on them for some odd reason. (they are afraid of the unkown product). In most cases it is cheaper to buy a new all in one system then it would cost to have it repaired. Now what do you do with the old cameras? They do not have BNC, or RCA connectors, and you cannot buy a DVR to upgrade. You can cut the connectors off, but that is a pain unless you are an electronics buff, and if you were an electronics buff you would have already avoided buying in all in one system to begin with. If you find an all in one system that uses separate power leads, and it uses BNC, or RCA connectors then go for that one!! It might be entry level, but at least you can hook the cameras up to something else in the future! What to avoid on the internet. The cheaper it is the less tech support you will receive. There are people who buy in Taiwan in bulk. They sell these units to the public at the same price that us dealers buy from our distributors. We have the experience to judge whether a product is good, or bad, or we can base it on experience out in the field. Do you really want to buy a product from someone who has never installed CCTV equipment? Would you buy a Ford from a salesperson when you see them driving a Toyota?? Makes you think! These on line sales website sell so cheap that they always have customers. You are just the meat in the grinder. Next customer please. They do not have tech support. This saves them a lot of money, and you alot of money. For the "techy guru" this may be good for them as they can tinker with it to fix it, or they can figure things out for themselves. If you are not a techy guru then avoid these sites as you have become your own "dealer", and now you have to provide your own "tech support". It is better to pay more, and have someone "hold you by the hand when you have questions. Check out the guys here on the forum. There are a few who are cost effective. I recommend that you buy from someone in your own country, and in your own town. This will make it easier when things go bad down the road. What do you think?

Welcome to the threads! See you on the forum!

Welcome to the threads! See you on the forum!

Welcome to the threads! See you on the forum!

I would love to do a wet drill, but I have not found a way to keep an office clean afterwards! LOL! If the Makita is cordless then I would say that is a bargain. My cordless Dewalt Hammer Drill costs around $350.00 and well worth every penny. It does not "clutch out" like my reg cordless drills. I use it to punch a two inch hole in headers for wiring, or central vac pipes. Just make sure you buy alot of batteries, and have them on a charger ready to go. One tip is not to run the Dewalt batteries until they are almost dead. OK I take that back. You do need to run them dead so that they recharge properly, but do not run them down as they get real hot inside. There is a temperature sensor, and when you put them on a charger, and the battery is too hot then the light changes to a different blink pattern, and that means you are not charging! You have to wait till the battery cools, then it will charge. The more you "push" them, then the need to have more batteries on hand. I am not saying Dewalt is the best, but I tend to go back to them after buying other brands. I think my problem is that I am buying the "newest and the greatest" drill that is being promoted and the Beta's cannot stand my use/abuse. Some of the drill brands that I refuse to use are now considered better than Dewalt, and perhaps now that they have been on the market a few years they have "hardened" the drills up some. Bosch Hammer Drill that retailed for $90.00 or so in 2004 could not drill a 3/8 in hole in every window of a large custom home. All I was doing was drilling for alarm wire. I had about 25 doors and windows and it did not make it past the half way point before the handle area got so hot that I could not hold the drill. It fryed the switch out pretty bad. Every one raves about the Bosch so maybe I need to retest one someday. Time is money, and I am fearful to test new ones. I have three Dewalt cordless drills, and about 8 batteries. I not rich in this economy and if I had to replace all of this because of age, or wear and tear then I would be in trouble!

Another one bites the dust! That is great to hear!