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Can anyone tell me when running this unit with 1.20 ver firmware what is the maxium size harddrives you can install? right now i have 2 / 120 gb drives [5400 rpm] and would like to know if i can put in 2/ 160gb drives [5400rpm] ?

I've installed a sort of do it yourself covert cam in a acoustic ceiling panel for a retail install to look directly down in your typical retail setting with 2'x4' flouresant lite panels in the ceiling, ect. Well, after the install the picture became way too bright or white. I suspected afterwards it got too hot and later put a computer cooling fan next to it to cool it down. The picture will occasinally turn good or color balanced for a moment then revert back. the cam is a one inch by one inch, Weldex digital color ultra minature camera 1/4" draws only 100 milia amps, 420 tvl, o.5 min illumination, powered off a regulated power supply. with a pinhole lense. I did white out the metal surrounding the lense so to conceil the tiny hole better. Must say it was a lot of work routering out the wood behind the ceiling panel for the cam and then drilling the ceiling tile for the pinhole lense. the coax run is only 50' . any ideas?

Yep I do and I wonder why I couldnt figure it out of the manual ? Poor reading skills I quess? Again, thanks[img][/img] and hey after all this here is the improved pic

Thanks Rory, again you've saved my ... the cam looks a lot better from both moving the angle and adjusting the AGC.

has anyone had any success actuating changes in camera or recording settings thru wavereader [remotely]? I do it thru the menu but the changes dont really happen?

i went to the site to check on the condition of the changes and they werent there? I would be curious to pm you the ip address and password to the dvmre ct 160-A to see if you can do anything to see changes in the AGC ? Pm me if you have the time if not, dont pm me. Again thanks you are the master. "when you can grasp the peble ... grasshopper"

i think i just figured it out that you can not do any changes during recording mode. that is with time lapse recording. and yea your right upload your current settings first then change them.

well after an exhaustive effort i figured out how to post pictures here again and here it is. your looking down from a height of about 9 feet over a retail counter. and notice how the walls with paper on it white out.

its been a while since i posted images, i dont remember how? they are in wavelet files from a ge dvmre.[/img]

i did and it does have the same white out.

i did put a fan on it to cool it down as i first thought it was from overheating. But the fan didnt help and it wasnt hot after the fan. i replaced it with another simular cam as the way that i mounted it with a bracket allows easy removal and reinstall. I havent checked the wire plug connection yet as i must do this after normal bussiness hours. thanks again for your help.

the one with the pinhole lens and my bracket that holds it does not take that handy little 90 degree turn. the cam can come with either lens

no there are not adjustments on a camera of this size. its only one inch by one inch by 1/3 inch thick.

the camera specs image sensor = interline transfer color ccd 1/4" format effective pixel = 512x492 sync system = internal sync s/n ratio = 46+ DB resolution = 420 tvl auto white balance its called a digital color ultra minature camera

yes, lots of white paper tacked onto the walls. would it help to angle it a little?

i think you mean before it goes too bright? and either way i am not sure i' ll have to watch and see. and once its gotten too hot i assume its toasted ?

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- i have a couple of ge dvmre ct320-A units at various sites and only at this one site do i have this problem. I should mention that the dsl line provider is Mcloed instead of Quest at the other 2 sites. I have swapped the dvr's around sites but only at this one site the audio chops out just for a fraction of a second when you go to playback remotely. Also you can watch the seconds skip a second while this is on playback. If you mute the audio the seconds go smoothly 1234567..... this is with the wave reader program and yes i have the camera on time lapse at 3fps. Its just maddening. these units do stream playbaack with audio and i showed it to a ge teck who said it couldnt. I should mention if you save the recordings to a file then it will audio playback fine. the ge teck thinks maybe it is in the dsl line? the line in question does upload at 385kbps and that must be plently i would think? any thoughts would be welcome? thanks, joe.

i had my local rep come over and demo the vcc-wd8574 a year ago and it was really impressive in low light and normal conditions. the price seemed better than comparable cams in its respective price point.

I know that i have accidently blown up a 12vlt cam before by backwards polarity. Hard to do w/24vlt.

in the real world of cctv cams the best are always 50db > however some that pretend to be 50 db can still be lousy for example the speco indoor dome something like the hr616? says its 50 db but its really poor in picture quality and resolution. in short you get what you pay for as the specos were not more than [$..... cant say] but they were cheep.

I have 2 different sites with the same Kalatel dvrme 16ct-A 320 gb and when at one location the audio cuts off and on with each increment of time going by [seconds] I should mention that at the site that the audio cuts out you can see that the seconds do not go by smoothly and every 3 or so seconds it skips a second,,, ? I have swaped the units and it happens only at the one site? Granted the offending site upload speed is only 385 kbps and the good site is almost T-1 or 1000 kbps. However the wavereader files are well below the 385 kb site as they are around 30-50kb by default? This is with a Loure Audio Kit for one channel that uses the db9 connection off the rear of the dvrme. You can actually see the seconds go by and hear it cut out for a second or fraction thereof. Puzzeled Again?> Additionally these units do remote streaming of playback audio dispite the ge tecks saying it shouldn't. I have had Dave at ge support see it remotely and he was surprized.

I dont know about the cams being high resolution because the only way 4 cams fit into the covert GE smoke dector is if you use their low res cams that are about 1.25 inches deep. If you use the good high res cams that come with the upgrade kit,[sD-1500] the size is more like twice as deep with the lense. Because of that you will only be able to fit 2 cams into the smoke dector housing. Your supposed to be able to fit 4 sideways and 1 down for a 360 degree view, but no way with any decent cams. The housing at its smallest diameter is only 3.5 inches. I quess nobody really cared whether it worked well or not.

[PS. not a bosch/phillips fan here ... i hear ya, but have you seen the picture it produces? and heck its not made in china. and whats up with the ge cams now coming out of china? i quess the bosch is made in portugal.

love the pano sdIII but the Bosch Dinion XF LTCO495 may be even better .

When GE says that the wave jet doubles the recording time in meduim resolution I am thinking that the same does not apply in the highest resolution? Also, the newer series like storesafe and the storesafe pro and pro II all suport remote streaming audio? But only the DVMRe does playback with audio without haveing to save it to a file first? [remotely]