Sawbones

If push came to shove, and the camera had a metal body, could you just use one of those neodymium magnets to stick it to that metal beam? On second thought, bad idea... those magnets are very strong... it might screw up something inside the camera. And they do have a safety chain... it's called that Cat5 cable

Your last post is pretty confusing. Did you mean to quote something in there and messed up the format?

*shakes head* Wow. I'm just a rookie... but even I know that screws > tape.

Is that an Axis camera with double-sided tape on the bottom? I'm not sure what they were trying to do there.

Of course.

Absolutely. Don't even waste your money trying it. Get an non-IR-equipped camera, and put an external illuminator outside if you really need an IR source. A cheap $40 Ebay illuminator would be adequate for a temporary install. I'd get one of these dome models.. I've had pretty good luck with them, and they run nicely off a standard 12VDC power supply (not my auction): http://www.ebay.com/itm/Indoor-Outdoor-Waterproof-Dome-IR-Illuminator-CCTV-/220426861129?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item335276fa49

Forget using camera-integrated IR from INSIDE the house. The reflection off the glass will kill any chance of getting a usable picture. The Axis is 5MP, but has no zoom. IIRC, the Acti has 18x optical zoom, along with a megapixel imager. If you really want detail of something going on outside, the Acti would be better, but you'd have to be there physically manning the zoom feature. 8fps is plenty for the average security implementation. The Acti camera has on-board storage, but I don't think the firmware that enables it has been released yet (due in 1Q of 2012). Absent local storage, you'll have to have SOMEPLACE to send that image stream... regardless of whether it's the Axis or the Acti.

This is what I've done as well.

No problems with the Arab race or any race for that matter .. Just not into living under Islamic Religious Law ... das all Yep... I know EXACTLY what you mean.

You mean you don't appreciate the finer points of living under Sharia? Racist.

Of course they celebrate Christmas... by stealing all of your belongings!

You prefer the bundled Acti software? Seriously? Wow... you must REALLY hate Luxriot.

What don't you like about it? My experience was nothing but positive. Also hard to beat the.price.

Not bad... those prominent housings will be a very visible deterrent. Unfortunately, those look low enough that somebody could rip them down. I might have gone for lower-profile domes in those locations, just for vandal-resistance.

It's worked well for me.

I can't imagine they'd be that silly... perhaps there's an engineering reason why they couldn't make the blades variable-pitch? They can do it with aircraft... why not turbines?

Wouldn't they just feather the props to a parallel-to-the-wind pitch on those turbine blades in a high wind? (eg. change the blade pitch so that they're no longer at an angle to the wind?)

I'll take 'em both. PM me your paypal info.

I've yet to find a low-cost LPR camera.

Man, I wish you had pictures of that! That's incredible...

I'm with you... that's nuts.

That ceiling mount... wow... got cobwebs? At least that camera doesn't have built-in IR, or you'd never have a decent view with all the spiders

The closest you're going to get to "cheap" is a couple of hundred bucks per-camera (for the Acti cubes, or Axis M-series), and some sort of NVR (with software) to collect all those streams.

That's an interesting way to solve that problem. Well-done.

Use megapixel cameras. This is the answer.