I have the newer model, and last night I have noticed that constantly was zooming into a neighbor's house and goind back to preset #1. Non stop was doing this.
Even a soft reboot did not help. When I changed preset position, it stopped doing that.
What could be the problem?
That's something I don't really understand either. I "only" have the problem with the reboots. Since the camera is currently being tested in my study, it does nothing other than display a live image/stream. All other functions such as MD, IVS etc. are not activated. That's why I don't understand why there are days when no reboot happens and then days when a reboot happens two or three times. If it is due to the battery that may be too weak, then these differences shouldn't actually occur. But we probably won't be able to find out the exact cause anyway. At least not me.A dying memory battery somehow also causes spontaneous reboots, but I have no explanation as to mechanism. Perhaps the firmware is failing to write data, detecting the fault and rebooting for the exception.
Thank you very much in advance for all this information, but since you are in a conversation about the hardware of this camera. My camera is dead and I want to revive it. My question is, what are the connection pins for the UART port? Is additional hardware necessary to connect to the UART of this camera other than USB-TTL?Delta is still looking good.
Turned my attention to camera Charlie. Charlie had bad amnesia. Thinks he is only 1 week old and has had his firmware updated only once even though Charlie is much older and has undergone multiple firmware upgrades.
Charlie survived his capacitor and battery replacement procedure today. Took me just under 3 hours with all the disassembly, electronics rework, optical cleaning, and reassembly.
Not a time efficient process, but might save the camera.
Here are all the caps replaced on Charlie's POE power & PTZ drive boards. Of course, the battery was pulled from its camera module. Old one was reading 2.3 volts.
All the caps had degraded in capacity and ESR, except the Nichicon 470 uFd / 16v. The Nichicon was in surprisingly good shape when I measured it. Good quality caps do last longer.
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I'm hopeful I can get some more life out of these old PTZ's, but still just a couple days into their field trial.