Sawbones

Well down here, crawling around attics will give one plenty chances to get electrocuted since we have no enforced codes (or laws) here. Ive been hit so many times I lost count. Yikes...

something like that at the night club here but its a little more space, also when you get by the DJ booth area of it, there were piles of used condoms!!!! Awww yeah!

Holy toledo... is that duct tape?

Aint' that the truth. I had one where I pretty much gave up, and left the stock lens in place. I literally couldn't get the thing off.

If you're talking about the Acti domes (like the 7411, or 3411), it's not simply a board camera inside. There is also a circuit board that does the encoding, and power that board/lens assembly. Are you proposing to separate the two components?

Make sure you've got the latest firmware... it has some nifty additional features.

Just use Acti's IP tool... it works, and it's a free download.

The dome with razor blades on the top is a stroke of genius. " title="Applause" />

I thought you were joking about the masking tape... Egad.

I think you've done fine work on that system, Alpine.

I agree 100% with this. Our current crew in government is making things worse, and there is no actual "recovery" to speak of. There's significantly more pain ahead for the US economy, and people faced with losing everything tend to behave badly. After all... what do they have to lose?

That's only because the "hot burglary" rate (where they burglarize your home WHILE you're home... we'd call them "home invasions" here) is a lot lower in the US... because we shoot/kill people here. Burglars may be lazy, opportunistic scum who prey on others... but suicide isn't generally one of their goals.

LOL. I dont want plate numbers and im not as paranoid as you are i guess. This is just a hobby for me. If you read the whole thread youd know that I do have a camera at the front door already. Remember... just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they're not out there. Nice pictures... You might be able to solve that light problem with a single piece of duct tape on the camera side of that light.

I'm pretty sure the polycarbonate domes block a certain amount of the IR. I likewise vote for separate illuminators with dome cameras.

Shutter speed is set to "normal"

It was a stuck ICR... don't know why it didn't work last night... but here it is:

True, is the lens your using IR corrected? Good question... I'll have to check the spec sheet. It's an integrated lens, so there's no changing it out, unless one of you knows a trick. ************** Edit **************** It doesn't say if it's an IR corrected lens.

Correct. The mounting plate is what you'd be wanting.

I'm pretty sure that Acti cam is auto-iris. I'm going to try it again... I ran it today from several different PoE sources, and it behaved appropriately. I have tried running it today in a completely dark room, and it sees very well with IR. We must have had an ICR malfunction last evening. It's one thing to have a bad picture in a non-IR-reflective environment (vegetation, for instance, doesn't tend to reflect IR very well)... quite another to get no picture in an area that's absolutely saturated with illumination of the appropriate wavelength. That military IR emitter should have been the tip-off... it's powerful enough when energized, that it's not even eye-safe within about five feet of the radiating surface. When I get more pictures, I'll post them.

My feeling exactly. Perhaps I'm spoiled, since most of the day/night cameras I've installed were the Panasonic domes (484S series)... but I frankly expected much better pictures. I'm probably going to go out there another night and see if they look equally bad... something's got to be wrong, but I don't know what it is. The camera is brand-new, so I can't imagine it's got a bad ICR (and the images I did get are in B&W)

I'm going to post a bunch of pictures here, gentlemen... and I hope you're going to tell me I've done something wrong, because the 7411 I'm testing has very weak night performance. Not "marginal"... I'm talking about genuinely disappointing. Here's the daytime scene, with a license plate as the point-of-interest (about 50 feet away, and partially blacked-out). The first picture is with the view pulled all the way back with the included lens. The second is zoomed in on the same scene, again using the integrated lens. All pictures were taken with shutter speed on "normal" instead of "slowest" (I'm not interested in Speco Intensifier-esque blurry pictures). Here are the night-shots, including the IR illuminators used to generate them. These were taken last night... the moon was also practically full. Gentlemen, somebody tell me what I'm doing wrong here,... because unless I"m doing something wrong, the IR sensitivity of this camera is truly dismal. These are all near-IR illuminators (not 940nm)That last illuminator in particular is a 60W military-grade IR emitter that pulls 5A at 13.3V off a dedicated power supply. It turns night into day for virtually any day/night camera... except, apparently, this Acti model. Somebody put me some knowledge in here.

Clever... good improvisation.

I don't know about that chart... there's almost no substitute for actually putting it up and looking at the images. Maybe some guys can predict what it will look like, but I can't.

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