extreme cold weather cameras and equipment (-60)

[beseeingyou 0]

Hey, doing it in Alaska and interested in any folks experience with cameras and very cold temps, reliability, etc.

Cheers

[musher 0]

Hi,

 

I'm running a couple sanyo hd3500s and an acti 7411 outside in Fairbanks.

 

I mounted 1 sanyo with a 2" blue foam donut fitted around the outside of the dome casing to hold in the heat a bit, the other sanyo is just surface mounted. Haven't seen any difference between the 2 so far. This will be the 2'nd winter for these cameras.

 

-52F at my house this morning and all cameras reported for duty.

 

I am running everything on 24VAC backed by a UPS to keep things alive (and warm) if the main power should fail for a bit.

 

The temps are well outside the camera specs, but so far so good...

[beseeingyou 0]

thank you for the info, the blue donut gave me an idea, i'm in NP and work cctv.

[musher 0]

Sounds like we're neighbors then. Temps are almost back up to where you can bend wires again.

 

Here's a pic of the foam install. Not real pretty, but it's not too obtrusive when painted to match the building. I'd advise using a circle cutter instead of a jigsaw like I did.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[Numb-nuts 1]

Will you guys stop with the donut thing, you're making me hungry!

[Sawbones 0]

That's an interesting way to solve that problem.

 

Well-done.

[Aban-CCTV-Camera 0]

OMG -50, brrrrrrr

[Sawbones 0]

OMG -50, brrrrrrr

 

I'm with you... that's nuts.

[Seedigital 0]

Awesome solution there!

 

We had to install some cameras in a blast freezer, have a look at pelco's website they have some domes which go down to sub -100 degrees c or something ridiculous that we used.

 

They have heaters pre-installed in them and everything.

 

They did cost an Arm and a Leg, but if you have to do a new install check them out.

[mikesalz 0]

Have you looked into any Bosch extreme stuff?

 

http://www.boschsecurity.co.uk/content/language1/html/3765_ENU_XHTML.asp

 

Just a thought.