CCTV_Suppliers

We have plenty in stock... Here are few links: 1. 7.5A Power Supply - http://cctvportal.com/dvrs/ge-psu-7-5amp-power-supply-for-cbr-dsr-and-dvmre-products-ntsc-117-vac-7-5amp.html Various size PATA drives also avail - from 80GB, 160GB, 200GB, 250GB, 300GB, 500GB and others... My suggestion is to send the entire system to us for evaluation at no cost to you. If repairable, then just pay for one hour labor, the parts and shipping costs... I will give you warranty on replaced parts.. GE (or should I say UTC Fire & Security) will not touch this unit and even if they do, they will charge arm and a leg. One of customers sent a 4-channel DVMRe unit for repair and they were quoted $1,200 not including $200 flat fee for evaluation. This unit came back to us and the overall costs were substantially lower. Please PM if interested. Once we receive the unit, I will get back to you for the costs and upon approval, we can make this pup to work. Let me know and thanks.

Rory, you are correct... I know we have plenty of these power supplies in stock... along with certifications to work on this type of DVRs... but, GE CCTV is no more.. we still have them...

Do you have extra drives on hand higher than 250GB? For testing purposes, it will be interesting to find out if the problem is the new drives or something else... You mentioned that you changed the power supply too... which is 5.2A version. I know that we had many problems with this power supply and instead started using GE 7.5A version - here is the part number: PSU-7.5AMP. This is a GE part, so it is available... Besides the fact that 5.2A power supplies were failing, it became more obvious that they did not have enough juice once we started changing hard drives with 7200 RPM drives and even higher capacity. Let us know what you decide.

I am not familiar with these cameras and chances are good that they are decent and it will not matter anyway for the DVR selection. Price range does dictate limitations on what you can get of course.. I can only vouch for major manufacturers products and I am sure there are other second tier products that work as well... For this price range, CBC America makes a very decent 16-ch DVRs... I see there are at least nine model available for your application here: http://cctvportal.com/dvrs/9-16-ch-dvr?cat=564&manufacturer=138 What is very neat about these DVRs is that you can pickup the unit and add storage yourself. Some of the models come with no internal drives, so you can pick and choose and add whatever storage that you may need. Any other questions, let us know.

Yup, this is what we use too... did you use the firmware uploader and did you see the successful upgrade message? Assigning Western Digital drives for Master and Slave could be tricky - pin sets are to be set so that Master drive is available with Slave present. Otherwise, it may read much lower capacity than intended. Try another set of hard drives.. we had no issues with up to two 750GB PATA drives.. as long as the motherboard was functioning correctly. We seen many of these motherboards fail as well and sometimes gave us intermittent problems similar to your description.. and the only way to "fix" it was to get another motherboard. Get yourself some test drives with higher capacity than 250GB - lets say 500G and try it one at a time... just make sure that you assign these drives correctly.

Very correct assessment Rory...

Price range does determine what type of DVR you can get... Too many to choose from, but from my perspective, many supermarkets use American Dynamics Intellex systems... - http://americandynamics.net and this may be a good fit for your application. These systems come with very rich set of features and functions, expandable to up to 4.0TB internal storage or more dependent on the requirements - frame rate, resolution and number of days of recording needs. You also can interface POS transactions recording with video, so that you can actually have real time video with transaction for further review... Bosch also has some very decent machines that perform similar feature and functions... and with excellent technical support and warranty. - http://products.boschsecurity.us/en/TAMS/products/bxp/CATM3f162c3179018f3a0fbc5dc587404bfd What comes in mind also is the latest CBC America DVRs that are very easy to use and yet very powerful. - http://computarganz.com/index.cfm Panasonic is yet another one, but even more pricey... - http://www.panasonic.com/business/security All these models come with no nonsense three year warranty and solid technical support. All work with various type of cameras and PTZ domes controlled locally and remotely. Some combinations could be mixed and matched, so you do not have use one specific brand of everything (except Bosch)... i.e. control Panasonic PTZ domes with CBC DVRs, or control American Dynamics domes with Panasonic or any variations... How many fixed cameras and PTZ domes you want to use or may already have existing? What are the make and models?

What does not make sense is that you mention that you upgraded the firmware and still unable to have the system recognize the drives... Where did you get the firmware and are you sure that you updated it with the correct firmware? What if the firmware update that you used was not intended for this unit? If so, I will suggest to change the ATA cables - seen many damage over time... I also seen external power supply fail, which caused ambiguous problems - system not starting up, hard drives not getting recognized, video flickers, etc... so, do change the external power supply too. We are able to drop up to two 750GB PATA drives in this type of unit for overall internal storage of 1.5TB... Common drives are 500GB size and most of our users want 1TB internal storage. Nothing special about it, but make sure you are using the latest available firmware... Good luck!

Dependent on the distance of your CAT5E (if less than 1,500' with good quality cable), I can recommend VU (Video Baluns) brand... Here is a link for you: http://cctvportal.com/wires-connectors/cctv-connectors?manufacturer=421 NVT and others are fine too.. We used VU baluns for roughly 10 years and with no problems and they are very reasonably priced.

Here is a basic system that I can recommend with brand name parts and full three years warranty... 1. Sanyo 6 channel embedded system - running between $250 to $300 - at least week of recording space or more if you want to add larger capacity hard drive - Internet ready and does not require any special remote software - you can use MS IE to perform all the tasks. 2. CBC indoor minidome with 480TVL resolution and 3mm-9mm lens - from $130 to $150 range 3. Altronix power supply - lets say 8 position - varies between $70 to $90 4. cables connectors, etc - roughly $100 Instead of using CCTV monitor, you can use regular TV with external Video input - this way you can feed the video from the DVR using BNC to RCA adapter... Your initial three camera package could run between $800 to $900 and will give you room to add more cameras as you see fit... you also can add different brand cameras, so there are no restrictions... Hope this answers your basic question.

From what I have see thus far, between $500 to $600...

Very nice... " title="Applause" /> Did not know about this company... should contact them... Looks like they offer only six lenses and they all are very wide angle... Good job man..

With 1/2" MP lens, not much could be done... I checked with American Dynamics, Bosch, CBC and even Panasonic... nothing in their lineup for wider than 4.0mm lens for MP application... All wider angle MP lenses below 4.0mm are 1/3" format... Since you mentioned that you are using Arecont D/N box camera, what is their recommendation, if any?

What are you specifically looking for? Embedded DVR systems, cameras, etc...

Did you contact American Dynamics technical support? They should be able to provide you with a cut sheet showing how the connections are made... The main part to watch for is which protocol is being used...

Most definitely... Connection to Intellex is not an issue.. rather connection to your J-Boxes... Which protocol are you using? - S-Net, Manchester, Rs-485 or others...

Color or B&W cameras? Minidome format or brick cameras? Dependent on answers, there are decent cameras and DVRs in the market that will perform very well. You can expect to pay in the neighborhood of $500 to $700 range, but obviously you can find similar hardware for less than these ranges. On the side of the DVR, there are way too many too choose from. What makes the pricing vary are too many variables, but at the end what you want is a decent performer. Here is something that I will recommend - regardless where you get the equipment, ask basic questions about warranty and support. If warranty is less than three years, then you get what you pay for.

Cisco has been trying very aggressively to get a "break", but I am not sure if they understand our industry with their attitudes as survtek has first hand experience. What is interesting is that each time they are involved in a project, it makes it easier to compete against them for many reasons besides the exorbitant prices - such as non-clear approach on the requirements of the projects, too many variables to consider, no solid answers besides "marketing fluff" and yes, you will here them stating that "We are Cisco" and that they will take care of everything. IBM is yet another company that has been trying to make some waves and of course, the same attitudes... Their main line is not only that "We are IBM", but also that they have over 20,000+ field service professionals to get involved anywhere in U.S. and around the world for any "problems" that customer may have. None of them care to comprehend how this industry operated in the past or it operates today - nor they have any reasonable solution that makes any sort of economical sense - a typical project that could cost lets say $100K, in their side of the numbers always are above $500K or even higher. Justification??? Well, either "We are Cisco" or "We are IBM" or "These are what they can charge and should be acceptable". Their approach has been more helpful for their competition than for their own agenda. There are other companies have been trying to break into this industry but keep running into a brick wall (care to comment about GE Security??)... and for a simple reason - they do not have clear comprehension how this industry operates and by assuming that they can walk and take over as they did in many IT infrastructures throughout the world. Bosch had to buy Philips Security division and I think they have done a great job thus far and offer many complete and yet essential solutions that cover many aspects of the industry. The same could be said about Tyco International, who bought few companies along the way and they also have become a major player.. and there are few others also have done great job - they understood the market and invested wisely rather than having the attitudes that Ciscos and IBMs of the world think.

Looks like he left behind a complete domes... which is fine and great if only you had the controller to manage the pan tilt and zoom functions, the power supply and the appropriate cable... Here are the basic components that you need: 1. Keyboard controller - ADTT16E - this is a keyboard and controller that once wired correctly, you can run full pan tilt and zoom on these units. - Here is what it looks like: http://cctvportal.com/ptz-cameras/controllers-keyboards/american-dynamics-adtt16e-controller-touch-tracker-sensornet-controls-up-to-16-cameras-domes.html 2. Power supply - dependent if you want to power up multiple of these domes, then you have the choice for either single unit or unit that can power up multiple domes and provide data flaw... Dependent on your answer, here are few choices - this one is for up to 6 domes: http://cctvportal.com/ptz-cameras/ptz-power-supplies/american-dynamics-rj6sn-dome-j-box-indoor-6-position-sensornet-120-230-vac.html 3. Cable - well, this is not just an ordinary cable - it contains power, data and video conforming what American Dynamics calls it S-NET protocol... This cable is expensive, but available.. Such cable can cost as much as $2.00 per foot... or less dependent on size of such cable... Manual is here: http://americandynamics.net/WebApps/getDocument.aspx?filename=8200-0306-01_C_E.pdf - mainly covered the wiring diagram on page 11... OR Dependent type of other controller that you may want that may spit out Coaxitron "P" or "D" protocol, then these domes can be programmed (DIP switches on them) to work with Pelco protocol... or Panasonic protocol and others...

This is interesting.... I am going to get the entire bill to find out where this will lead.. Looks like the attached file contains only the portion of the entire bill... Funny how it reads "Surreptitious Video Surveillance Act of 2010" - interpreting to Unauthorized video surveillance act... wow... I am sure there is more to this than just these few pages... but I will find out more... Scorpion, great job man...

Here is something different for installers... and I am not sure if this product has been discussed before. We used them in few larger installs... works fairly good... pricing is decent, but nothing close to standard BNC connector pricing. The most important part for us is that it works with any size cable from RG-6, RG-59 and even RG-59 Mini... Kind of limits how many types of connectors someone must carry, when this connector fits them all... Requires special stripping and crimping tool.. if someone is making a lot of connectors at the job site, it helps... The part that I like the most is that it is reusable...

Another line with passive and active baluns - http://videobaluns.com/ - they recently introduced new line of active baluns and very reasonable price...

Thanks to everyone for the feedback... Most likely we will not stay with this line... just had an opportunity to work with them in several major projects and just because it worked for time being, does not mean we will stay... your input and experience does count... Again, thanks to all.

People with this company that we are communicating are located in Australia... pricing is not that bad - under $1.5 and yes, the tools are expensive... However, in a large installs, the labor does count, therefore it is ideal for larger installs... According to our installers, no connectors turned out to be bad... mostly used them for patch cables with RG-59 mini cables. We are not committed to this product line at all.. just using them as necessary basis... sometimes it is worth it when someone has to make few thousands of these connectors and the time it takes to make them. I can see it being a pain in a smaller installs though... the cost may not justify the mean... At least it is an option available and thanks for your comments.

It is a two step process S-Net cable must run between matrix switch to your single position j-box and then from J-box to your optima dome. The first run insure data and video transfer to and from j-box and the second run provides power to dome and data and video return back to j-box.. You probably already have the cable connection diagram for your matrix, for your j-box and for your dome... it should be noted in all manuals step by step... If for whatever reasons none of the manuals are avail, my suggestion is to visit American Dynamics website and download the respective manual... these manuals are the same is what should have been included with each item. Here is the link where you can find all the manuals... http://americandynamics.net/support/documents_index.aspx They have all the manuals for all the systems they manufacture.