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All for re-use/re-purpose, and landfills thank you. PoE issues aside, I think you'll enjoy your cam once all the kinks work out. I seem to recall Candy did reassure you (unless I'm dreaming?) earlier, so I would pursue a dispute and apply any refund towards that PoE goal. Poor descriptions (altered?) only lead to such misunderstandings, and only cash talks to get them to 'behave', if at all. Cheers!
You are right I am enjoying the cam. It is going up on my roof as soon as the power injectors get here.
Yesterday started on a mount for it. I have a Davis weather station mounted on a 1" pipe on my roof and the top end of the pipe is were the Huisun PTZ will go. Bought a 1" conduit pipe thread mount, a sealed plastic box, put the 2 together, it's almost ready just need to make a mount that will allow the cam to set directly on top of the box with a spacer designed to have the Huisun bolt right on top without using the arm. I have a lathe and mill and plenty of aluminum and plastic stock.
Today, made a prototype for the camera mount out of some nylon I had laying around because I knew the nylon would be very easy to machine. In the next few days I'll reproduce this design in aluminum with a few slight revisions. I used the stock Huisun mounting screws and it fit well and felt solid. This nylon is pretty soft so that is why I will make an aluminum version. If this was the harder type nylon I would just use it and not bother making another out of aluminum.
In the below photos I am just holding it all together to simulate how it will go. The camera mount is not screwed to the top of the plastic box. I will remake it out of aluminum before I drill/tap the mounting holes to screw it to the top of the plastic box. I was going to not use a box and attempt to slide the connectors inside the pipe but decided that would have been too much trouble as I'm sure it would have been a very tight fit getting those connectors inside the pipe. Using the box will make the connection easy to do.
Here [below] is a quick video made from my roof where I am going to mount the Huisun PTZ. Watch this and you will see why I bought this camera.
Sorry It is a bit unsteady, I used my cell phone and quickly turned around 360 degrees, being on an inclined roof I was not really able to hold the camera very steady.
The rusty top of the pipe with the weather station mounted on it is where the camera will mount. I may end up moving the weather station down a little to make room and keep the cam from blocking the rain collector on the weather station.
Youtube is getting really good when it comes to removing shakiness from video, you would not believe how much they where were able to improve this video, it was so shaky I almost got motion sickness watching it, now you can hardly tell.
Robert
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