Good Choice of Wireless Infrared Camera ?
James
Infrared Camera. It needs to work well in the daytime, and decently at
night. It can only be wireless, and should send a signal consistently,
about 200 feet.
I have not decided if I want one that will work with a regular tv monitor,
or if I want it to be used in conjunction with my pc. It would me nice if I
had one that could do both, so that I could monitor at my pc, and have a
regular tv act as an auxliary monitor in another room.
Is there a unit that allows for all of this use ? I know there is a lot
out there, and when I googled for info, I just get overwhelmed. I thought
that maybe some of you have used these type of cameras and could offer me
some advice.
Thank you very much for any advice !!
James
Alan Browne
Has nothing to do with "alt.photography". Good luck.
PeterD
wrote:
>For security purposes, I need to select a good , reliable, Wireless
>Infrared Camera. It needs to work well in the daytime, and decently at
>night. It can only be wireless, and should send a signal consistently,
>about 200 feet.
Your request contains about 5 conflicting items. One is wireless and
good. Second is wireless and reliable. Third is wireless, good and 200
ft. Fourth is wireless, reliable and 200 ft. Fifth is just wireless...
(sorry, but I do a lot of these, and wireless is at best a poor
solution, that may work. Range is very limited, and as the distance
between the camera and the receiver increases, the video quality is
going to drop. Two hundred feet is pushing it, it will be noticable.
OK, if you must have wireless, go to a site such as Pelco's. They are
good (I use a Pelco system at home, NOT cheap, but it is absolutely
the best I can find...)
>
>I have not decided if I want one that will work with a regular tv monitor,
>or if I want it to be used in conjunction with my pc. It would me nice if I
>had one that could do both, so that I could monitor at my pc, and have a
>regular tv act as an auxliary monitor in another room.
I take the output from my Pelco Duplexer, feed it into an RF
modulator. That goes to the house antenna system on channel 3. I then
take the video and run that into the computer monitor's aux video
input, and view the security system as a PIP display (most of the
time, but can make it full screen with a push of a button).
>
>Is there a unit that allows for all of this use ? I know there is a lot
>out there, and when I googled for info, I just get overwhelmed. I thought
>that maybe some of you have used these type of cameras and could offer me
>some advice.
Avoid, like the pig flu, all those chinese made pieces of crap.
Period, don't buy junk. You absolutely get what you pay for, it may
look good on the box, but it will not hold up long term.
Also realize that without an auxilary IR illuminator, your nighttime
distance will be limited to a few feet, typically about 10 to 15 ft in
most cases, and even that may be insufficient for most uses. Plan for
a standalone illuminator (again Pelco has them) if you need nighttime
video quality.
Also don't forget both video alarm capability to spot movement, and
recording.
HeyBub
> On Sun, 4 Oct 2009 10:04:23 -0400, "James" <jnipp...@nospamfdn.com>
> wrote:
>
>> For security purposes, I need to select a good , reliable, Wireless
>> Infrared Camera. It needs to work well in the daytime, and decently
>> at night. It can only be wireless, and should send a signal
>> consistently, about 200 feet.
>
> Your request contains about 5 conflicting items. One is wireless and
> good. Second is wireless and reliable. Third is wireless, good and 200
> ft. Fourth is wireless, reliable and 200 ft. Fifth is just wireless...
> (sorry, but I do a lot of these, and wireless is at best a poor
> solution, that may work. Range is very limited, and as the distance
> between the camera and the receiver increases, the video quality is
> going to drop. Two hundred feet is pushing it, it will be noticable.
>
>
> distance will be limited to a few feet, typically about 10 to 15 ft in
> most cases, and even that may be insufficient for most uses. Plan for
> a standalone illuminator (again Pelco has them) if you need nighttime
> video quality.
>
Second that. I have one with nine IR LEDs to illuminate the target. It has
sufficient range to adequately illuminate the bedroom antics, but I despair
of anything over about twenty feet.
An alternative might be a low-light camera with ordinary illumination of the
target area. That would look considerably more normal than the eerie red
glow of IR bulbs. ( "Oh, that? Well, dear, it's a Carbon Monoxide detector!
While dying inflagranti delecto is the perfect way to go, I'm not ready to
go yet..." )
Cwatters
"PeterD" <pet...@hipson.net> wrote in message
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> (sorry, but I do a lot of these, and wireless is at best a poor
> solution, that may work. Range is very limited, and as the distance
> between the camera and the receiver increases, the video quality is
> going to drop. Two hundred feet is pushing it, it will be noticable.
Wireless cameras are prteey poor but why not use a Wireless Network camera?
Good ones are a bit more expensive but there are some cheap ones about.
Video quality mainly limited by the lens/sensor.