At what temp do you need a heater on the camera?

[Nodon 0]

I am getting ready to buy and need to know if I need to use a heater on my cameras. The winters are usually mild here in Northeast MS. Thanks

[Birdman Adam 0]

Judging on temperature alone, in most situations, only when its REALLY cold - I mean well below freezing. Cameras just don't really need to be 'warm' to operate well. So I would draw the line at 0F (32F is freezing).

[Nodon 0]

Thanks birdman

[SEANHAWG 1]

Cameras usually put off tons of heat already so I think it would need to be below 0 on a consistent basis before you would have to worry about anything. We have several cameras up in out system where we have bypassed the heaters and fans in our housings and the past winter we had several single digit days with some thick snow storms and now we have had one of our hottest summers on record. Cameras are still ticking.

[shockwave199 0]

This is good to know. We get into the teens [F] here too, more often than single digits. It's good to know cameras can handle that.

 

Dan

[Birdman Adam 0]

I've even had $20 cameras in 5F temps with ice glazed on them, they worked fine! And this was a outdoor rated 'lipstick' style camera with a metal body!

[shockwave199 0]

I'm actually looking forward to bug free viewing when the weather chills up.

 

[Huviron 0]

We did cold chamber test for the Russian market regulation.

All of our outdoor cameras were managed to run at -50 degrees celsius (-58F) without heaters

We still have almost none temperature related issues even in Russia.

 

With heater, it may help a little, but in most cases, heater is just a ceramic resistance which is not very effective at extremely cold weather.

Hope this help!

 

[Birdman Adam 0]

Thanks for the insight!

 

Over all, I think the heaters are more for keeping moisture from forming in and around the camera housing/lens.

[shockwave199 0]

Yeah, I guess that could be. I was gonna say after all that info, is the heater/blower housing yet another scam to make us spend more money?

 

[dvarapala 0]

So what triggers the heater/blower to come on in a typical outdoor camera housing? Temperature alone? Humidity? Some combination of the two? At what temperature will it kick on?

[ak357 0]

So what triggers the heater/blower to come on in a typical outdoor camera housing? Temperature alone? Humidity? Some combination of the two? At what temperature will it kick on?

 

Simple ( least expensive)

Google Auto reset thermal sensor

similar as being use in washers,dryers,freezers and so on...

one for "+" one for "-" temp

 

Other more expensive use complete electronic solution

too many choices to mention

Edited December 11, 2011 by Guest

[dvarapala 0]

Simple

Google Auto reset thermal sensor

similar as being use in washers,dryers,freezers and so on...

one for "+" one for "-" temp

 

So is 0 degrees C a typical setpoint for the heater, and 40 degrees C for the fan?

[ak357 0]

Simple

Google Auto reset thermal sensor

similar as being use in washers,dryers,freezers and so on...

one for "+" one for "-" temp

 

So is 0 degrees C a typical set point for the heater, and 40 degrees C for the fan?

Something like that

I used to know exactly when I measured

but was about 10 years ago

if u really want to know I can tell you how to measure