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The current solar panel is 410Wp used together with 2x 100Ah batteries. Although there might be a better solar panel... Everything starts with energy efficiant hardware. There is much more to gain when using more efficient hardware as there is on the solar panel side. But I want to optimize as...

Hi, Last year I build an live streaming PTZ wildcamera powered by a solar panel. It worked perfectly. But the problem is the solar panel beiing huge (160cm x 100cm). for a new version I want to try to build a wildcam with a smaller solar panel, ideally one that could fit high in a tree. So...

No, autotracking does not work with wildlife.

Hey @EMPIRETECANDY , I was first looking for the 2MP version but the shop said that the 4Mp was the newer version and I didn't think of it. I thought, 4 is better then 2: so good deal :P. I am thinking about adding some extra floodlights as the solar panel is generating more than enough juice...

Hi, As I'm the starter of this topic I will post a little update. As stated I wanted to build an offgrid wildcam in the middle of the woods. Which, I can tell you, is a bit hard :) The setup Camera: Dahua DH-SD49425XB-HNR Batteries: 2x 110Ah 12V deep cycle batteries (used as a 24V setup) Power...

Yes, I think it will do the trick. As far as I have read I will get some downtime in the winter but only a couple of days per year. That is no problem. It is more like... will this setup work. And is this smarter to do.

Hi guys, Here I am again with the next version of the project :rofl: . So.. What @Teken said, you need a charging method on site otherwise the batteries die like snowflakes in summer. In the next version I would like to add a solar panel. But after a day googling a lot (serious a lot) of...

Haha thanks, appreciate the info!

Thanks @Teken As your post might read as a bit demotivating (everything is wrong :rofl:) it is good value. It is a hobby project. Every now and then I come up with ideas and just try to go for it, making millions of mistakes and learn a lot from it. It's more fun than theory in the school banks...

@sebastiantombs very clear! That is what it is going to be. Thanks! Much appreciated!!

Thanks. Would be awesome. Learning a lot here ;) Im happy with 1,75x.

Thanks for checking. Then I hope that going for 2 batteries and 24v wil work . Going to try that. Didnt know I could tap 12v from 1 battery. Few questions remain: 1. Does it also drain that one battery a little quicker because of the router and arduino are added load to that single battery...

@Old Timer , the router and the arduino both have an inbuild voltage regulatie. So they run on the 12V. The arduino is a self build device that measures the voltage and sends it through wifi (to the router) to a server so I can see when I need to replace the battery. If I go 24 volts I indeed...

@sebastiantombs The voltage stabilizer is this one It has an in and an out. It says input 6-36V and out, 12V. I had it wired up directly to the battery with the 80m cable in between. So: Battery => 80M cable => Stabilizer. I had nothing ON the stabilizer. Just measuring the blank cables that...

You guys were right. The problem is clear. But not how to fix it. Bt I guess/hope/know you guys can give me the best advice. Test with empty battery First of all, I went to the location. Measured the (at that moment) empty battery. Voltage at the battery: 12.08V Voltage after 80M cable...

No, Dahua says a 12V/3A adapter should be provided. But at max it draws 21W (IR on/Moving). Which is not even 2A (if i'm right). See sheet: https://data.kommago.nl/files/pdf/dahua-dh-sd49425xb-hnr-datasheet.pdf I dont know a lot about electricity but I thougt that if it would need 3A and there...

We'll see guys. Appreciate the help. Tomorrow I'm going to remove that splitter and measure voltage. Will be continued. @tigerwillow1 So POE would also not work for these distances right? I mean, those cable pairs are much much much smaller.

No, I don't have an SD card :)

No, I replace the battery when it is 12.2 volts. But that should still be enough to run 12v cam. I had a 12v stabilizer between it, and it outputted 12.1v steady, it didn't matter if the battery was 13v or 12v. But I removed it to see if that thing was the problem. Only thing left is the barrel...

I soooo hope it is that splitter. That would be the easiest :banghead:. It is here at night and that camera is in the middle of the forest surrounded by 40cm snow right now. Otherwise I would go there now immediately :wtf:. Have to be patient. Please let it be the splitter. There is nothing else...

What do you mean with rated at? It is just a passive splitter(?). It has 1 barrel connector and splits it to two barrel connectors. It came with the Foscam microphone: Outdoor microphone for IP cameras It is labeled as the "Power Y cable"

There is currently a barrel connector splitter between the microphone power barrel and the camera barrel. Can I detach the audio and use the multimeter on it while the camera is booting?

@sebastiantombs thanks. Well maybe but I'm not aware of it. It even uses the same barrel connector haha. But what is important to measure? To see if a voltage drop occurs on the wires that go to the camera? The battery is currently giving 12.8 volts. But I will try with a multimeter tomorrow if...

@sebastiantombs Wire is 80m. 1.5mm outdoor cable. YMvK-mb cable 2X1,5. It is hard for me to believe it is power related. As I have run 3 weeks with another Foscam camera without any reboot or downtime.

I found something weird in the logs. Have seen it a couple times but to isolate it I cleared whole log and waited till it occured again. And the Log has an "Abort" entry, and then a "Startup" entry.

Well. It was not the problem. The cam worked whole day pretty good. But sometimes it kept going offline for a minute. Now I have tried some things and when I set IR to it's brightest it reboots. But WHYYYY. Edit: It looks like it is completely random. It now happend while doing nothing.

Hi, I have a Dahua DH-SD49425XB-HNR running as a wildcam in the middle of the forest streaming to Youtube. I use a directional antenna because there is barely any 4G coverage. With the pointing antenna I go from 80Kb/s upload to 700Kb/s. Now, the Dahua has so many settings. How can I force the...

Well. It was the stabilizer. It now works.

Hi, I'm building an offgrid wildcam. For this I use a 110Ah 12V deep cycle battery, a 4G modem and a camera. This is the setup: Now what happens is that the Dahua webcam keeps (what I think) rebooting. I can see it is comming online in the router and then after 30 secons or so it...

Thank you! I replace the 49425 for the PTZ1A225. I think the autotracking is a super plus if it works on animals + being more quiet is also a plus :)