Recent content by duranged2001

This past Sunday morning, our deck camera captured some strange video. We thought it was creepy as hell. You decide. (The camera is an old Foscam FI8921, so excuse the poor quality.)

Thank you! Roxy is our 13 yr old pomeranian. She loves it up there in the mountains. She hasn't said much about my epic install though. :(

The connectors are for the ac power, ground, alarm inputs/outputs, and audio in/out. I do have the ethernet connected normally. I needed to use the steel pole for strength, and resistance to sway. It can get pretty windy there. Thank you for your comments! David

Thanks Chris. A better man could have easily dug a hole and fixed the pole in cement. I'm lazy and dumb really...lazy because I hate using a post hole digger, and dumb because I probably spent 10 times the effort doing it the way I did. The ground is really not bad at all. North Carolina...

Continued from previous... Then, I completed the installation of the ground rod, conductor wires, ground bonding wire, and ethernet surge protector: The installation was a buttload of preparation and work, especially since this is at our "getaway" location in the mountains. Having...

Now that I've had our new camera in place for a few weeks, I am posting my installation process. In a previous post, I had asked about installing the camera on a pole I installed our weather station. I quickly learned from others that the new camera is too heavy to enjoy a sway "free" install...

Here are the settings that I tweaked enough to make me happy with the image. I'm familiar with photography, but not video. So, I just stepped through all of the adjustment settings I could find, and fiddled. I hope to learn more about the technical aspects of video tuning, but for now, I just...

Thanks. Man, i played for 10 minutes trying to get it to expose and focus right. I'll post the settings tommorow. I took screen grabs, but they're on my pc. Later.

Tonight I recorded video of the "Super Moon" rising in Laurel Springs, NC. This is one video that you don't have to wait for the exciting part, so feel free to fast forward. This is my first posted capture since installing our new camera. I'm going to post pictures from the installation as...

Thanks for the quick answer. I have a poe splitter coming but I wanted to bench test the mic in the interim. Thanks, David

Hey Nayr, I bought the bullet mic from Amazon for my Dahua cam install. On the powering of the bullet, would it be safe to use a 12V 2.5A adaptor? I just had this power brick laying around that used to go with "something." Thanks!

i plan to drill holes in my camera "mast" in order to run the wiring from the camera to the inside of my building. How do I waterproof the holes? I have searched for different solutions, but i havent found the answer. Thanks, David

Thanks for the explanation. The power "bundle" has its own ground wire (labeled "earth" and colored yellow/green.) The alarm bundle also has a yellow/green labeled "gnd"

Internet/phone on one, and power on the other. They are about 10 feet apart, but connected together. So, I guess I'll get another. Thanks man.

There are two six foot grounding rods in the ground behind my building. I am going to mount my camera pole a good 16 feet away. Should I pound another rod into the ground directly under the pole, or run the ground wire to the closest existing ground rod. (I wouldn't imagine lightning wants to...