Odd Picture

[Jim Barrett 0]

Any body got any clues?

Small bullet cam that started this after about 4 months in service

[cocacola 0]

Any body got any clues?

Small bullet cam that started this after about 4 months in service

 

Nice motion covering !

Or Nice heat cam!

[frank3 0]

Did you try resetting the camera or warming up the sensor? I've seen this happen on cheap cameras with wide temperature gradients, once it gets cold.

[vin2install 0]

Ooooooh its a true night vision camera. Cool

[Jim Barrett 0]

Yeah, this is a pain.

The stupid thing did this once before (only in black & white. No kidding, it was the same kind of picture but with shades of gray only). I unplugged it and it went back to normal. Today I went out, isolated it to be sure it was the camera & not what it was connected to, unplugged it for 30 sec & plugged it back in- back to normal. The client had an extra one so I put it in & brought the suspect one back. I'll set it up & see if I can cause it to fail (it was mounted inside a store so temp extreme shouldn't have been that extreme).

 

Actually, I suspect it's busted.

 

But, still under warranty so I'll just send it back. Weird though, eh?

[vin2install 0]

Check your voltage. It might be too high. Over a period of time the voltage might be too much for it. You might be using a unregulated power supply

[Jim Barrett 0]

Nope, nice altronix power supply w/ other cams on it. 12v DC nice & solid

I guess sometimes busted is just busted. Three other cams just like it, sequential (or almost) serial numbers. No problems w/ others.

[RickA 0]

What are the runs for the camera? Gauge and Length?

[Jim Barrett 0]

Short, 30' or less, 18/2, RG 59.

Haven't benched it yet (this evening for sure) so haven't been able to reproduce the problem yet.

I suspect I'll find that lighting change causes it to hang up somehow.

Notice there's no black or white in the image?

Somebody tell us how these things work nowadays.

Do I misremember my camera theory that tells me that (in the olden days at least, maybe vidicon tubes) the chroma & lum signals were processed separately?

[Rebco 0]

Wow a thermal imaging camera how much? You said cheap?

[MRakes 0]

Yeah, I'm thinking it's board level.....all chroma, no luminosity? I'd pull it out and sell it as IR....

[Jim Barrett 0]

Yeah, real neat except it won't do it anymore. Hooked it up on the bench, pointed it out the window & a week later it's still working like a champ.

Camera I put in its place is still working just fine.

Go figure.

[Erron S. 0]

Green and red typically points to the color oscillator failing. What kind of camera is it?

 

Erron S.

[Jim Barrett 0]

I think it's a Golden State small tube cam.

[vin2install 0]

Which model #. I work for Golden State repairing their cameras.

[Jim Barrett 0]

Aha! Sounds like someone qualified to have an opinion.

 

Looks like it's a GS5002CB.

 

What do you think? Can't make it fail now. Seems to work good.

[vin2install 0]

Most of the time it might be a small power surge. That usually puts it out of whack until you shut it down and power it back up. You are lucky the power surge wasnt big enough to fry the camera.