Pelco Spectra IV - Adding an IP interface

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Pelco recently announced an IP board for its Spectra IV PTZ dome. I ordered the board and upgraded a Spectra IV SE with 35x day night camera. Took about an hour plus running a cat 5 cable to parallel the analog cable. I am pleased to say that the results are quite good and I now have that camera attached analog to a GE DVMRe with a translator board to access the coaxitron control and IP to a PC running Milestone streaming MPEG4 at 30 FPS. Without entering into another debate on analog vs digital, if you need both or are converting, this is a very good option to use your Pelco dome. You do need to upgrade the camera to the latest firmware, but that is easy if you have the maintenance cable and a laptop computer.