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Hello...Great site lots of good information. First off let me state that I'm definatly a newbie to CCTV. Any suggestions would be helpful. I've been assigned the project of allowing our Concrete Batchman the ability to see the trucks that he's loading. The Batch House(this is where the computer that controls the batching of the concrete) is approx. 250' away from where the concrete is loaded into the trucks. The company would like to use 4 color cameras installed on the Batch Plant. Here's where my questions start to come in: They would like to have all camera's on their own monitor...No recording needed, just viewing in realtime...I'm guessing this is possible, with out much hassle . They would like the cameras to have PTZ and heated/cooled enclosures were in Western Pa. The camera's also need good night vison..Any suggestions on these cameras? Last question and probably most important....Is this a project that I can tackle? I have a strong background in computers as well as some CCTV/DVR installs. Any information you guys/girls can provide would be helpful. Thanks Glenn

Thats a good question, as far as I know all the power is located inside in the electrical room directly under the batch room.

Thanks for all your responses, lots of good information pertaining to my situtation. So what should I do with power.....I'm guessing if I run it in the same cat5 cable, I'll get interference?

Thanks for the post Joe4, but I'm looking for each camera to have its own monitor and all 4 cameras to use the same PTZ controller.

Any suggestions on what equiptment I should use? Like I said in my first post, I've done a couple DVR/CCTV projects but nothing like this one. I just want to make sure its done correctly.

My bosses are telling me that PTZ is a definate requirement, pricing is not that much of a concern. You know bosses hehe...If it was something that I needed I'd have to do it on the cheap... Is it even possible to control 4 camera's with one joystick and have the output to to 4 different monitors? Thanks for the reply