GE Ultra View Camera Problems

[FredB 0]

Installed 12 GE Ultra View Cameras in a apartment building today, and all the cameras are only showing B/W exept 1. Called GE, waited for 30 min to get someone on the line, and the guy tells me there might be a power problem. Told me that the color is the first thing that goes if there is not enought/bad power. He told me that the Ultra View needs 350 mA at 12 V DC and 200 mA at 24 V AC. Fair enough, so i plug one of the cameras directly in to a 1500 mA 12 VDC transformer. Still B/W.

 

Any one else had problems with these cameras? Any ideas for a fix.

[FredB 0]

PS. The Ultra does not switch to B/W ala' Day/Night type camera. Strictly color all the time.

[rory 0]

never had that problem with them. Did you try setting the factory defaults in the ones showing B/W? Perhaps the distributor messed with the program settings. Also, I take it you are setting them up on a color monitor and not through the DVR?

 

Rory

[FredB 0]

Tried resetting them, running them directly to my test monitor. Remember you had a problem with one of them. That kind of problem was it?

Apperantly they are really sensitive to the power source. What kind of transformers have you been using?

Thinking about getting 2 16 channels Altronix 24 V AC wallmounts with regulated and individually islolated channels. Wonder if I got a deffective batch or something

 

Any feedback would be highly appreiated

 

Thanks,

 

Fredrik

[rory 0]

I have them on a 12VDC 16 output fused 6a power supply. Ive used the other GE cameras with 24VAC only, this time i had some other 12VDC cameras so thats what I used.

 

The problem I had, first one I had was heavily pixelised so i sent it back. This latest one was lighting changing colors, like the white balance, I changed the lens and it fixed the problem. What lens are you using? And what cable are you using?

 

Rory

[FredB 0]

Tameron 3-8mm F 1:00

RG-59. Still does it with just the testmonitor.

 

Most be the power for some reason. Can't be 10 faulty cameras.

 

Was metering the current in series with the camera and the meter showed 18 mA. A little rusty in the theory department, but thought that was kind of low. Maybe I am doing it wrong since it is AC???

[rory 0]

try it with a 500ma 12VDC plug and see what happens.

Also, always get the GE lenses when using the Ultraview, just in case ..thats what my last issue was, the computar lens was giving me the problem .. though I know I have used Computer / tamron on the one before this.

 

Rory

[FredB 0]

Spoke to Altronix, and according to them most of GE's cameras do not have a built in "transformer" (do not exactly remember what they said but thought it was transformer), so the power supply needs to have individually isolated channels.

Also needs to be a class 2 transformer. Class 2= regulated or...???

Picking one up tomorrow to put in.

 

Will post the result.

[rory 0]

Power wise, they are no different from any other Traditional Camera.

 

Any 24VAC transformer will do, even radio shack has ones I have used in the past.

 

But like I said, all i normally use is the 8 or 16 channel Altronix 24VAC fused power supplies, and have no issues. However i always test each camera (and set it up also) at my appartment on a single 24VAC transformer one by one, to make sure they work before I carry them to the job. Then when im there its just plug and play, and focus.

 

Rory