Installed this 2 years ago. Went back today to install a couple more TURRETS and fix this.
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Bullet camera spider web issues.
- Thread starter dudemaar
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Installed this 2 years ago. Went back today to install a couple more TURRETS and fix this.
omg wow! This image should be added to the wiki on why bullet cameras are sometimes not the most popular DUE TO SPIDERS. I bet that looks awful with the IR going.
Ckb3
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Riclyo
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I didn’t know spiders were really an issue with bullets till I came here. I’ve had them for 2 years and only had the occasional spider repel in front of camera. I’m curious as to how well the turrets hold up against nesting wasps?
looney2ns
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looney2ns
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This isn't a spider problem, this is a property owner problem.
bigredfish
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Pretty sure form factor wouldn't have mattered here.
I get spider webs but not like that. THats like an abandoned house spider web action!
Mark_M
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Im sure they seen it, they just didn't feel like climbing up a pole to clean it i quess.
smoothie
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Turning off the built in iR on the camera and installing a separate iR illuminator a foot or so from the camera to provide illumination would cure this. The spiders will build their webs on the illuminator and rarely on the camera.
The area that home is located does seem to have an extraordinary amount of spiders, even when I had bullets there was only the occasional spider building a web around it. I am not sure that a turret versus a bullet is going to make that much of a difference with such an industrious spider population living there. Turrets are superior to bullets because the iR emitters are not colocated under the same glass as the lens but are usually fully separate. That separation is rarely more than an inch which does not appear to be sufficient separation for the level of web building dedication OP's spiders are displaying.
I know a great many people and businesses that never look at their camera feeds until something happens and they need the footage only to find the camera obstructed with trees or spider webs etc. Like anything a camera system must be maintained to keep performing at its peak.
The area that home is located does seem to have an extraordinary amount of spiders, even when I had bullets there was only the occasional spider building a web around it. I am not sure that a turret versus a bullet is going to make that much of a difference with such an industrious spider population living there. Turrets are superior to bullets because the iR emitters are not colocated under the same glass as the lens but are usually fully separate. That separation is rarely more than an inch which does not appear to be sufficient separation for the level of web building dedication OP's spiders are displaying.
I know a great many people and businesses that never look at their camera feeds until something happens and they need the footage only to find the camera obstructed with trees or spider webs etc. Like anything a camera system must be maintained to keep performing at its peak.
It's spiders and dust from the hogfuel in the pens combined. Just need quarterly wiping off with a broom and you'll be fine.
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As looney2ns said, use Duct seal.
Four out of four turrets that I checked had wasps inside after a year.
Before:
Wasp Nest:
Remounted and duct sealed:
