Protecting your Ute with cameras.

[HSVZ]

I borrowed this post off ls1.com.au after I had posted re the system I had installed at my place, Drew wrote this thread about it after he installed it. Some might find the following handy if you dont garage your vehicle. Thanks to Drew.

Basically it is a complete CCTV kit that comes with everything you need to get up and running. I don't know much about this stuff so wanted something that you just plug in and away you go as I didn't know the necessary individual bits to buy.

• 4 x cameras (2 x 30 metre range infrared, 2 x 15 metre range infrared)
• DVR unit with 80Gb HDD
• All cables etc to connect all cameras to DVR
• Mounting brackets and screws for cameras

Everything is straight foward to connect up. The biggest problem with doing something like this is running the cables through the roof to the mounting points for the cameras. Each cable has video and power, with all 4 cameras being powered off 1 power point from a 4-way split cable.

The DVR unit connects to a monitor via a composite cable, which luckily my monitor has. So you just change the input from VGA to composite to switch between PC view and the CCTV.

The DVR can also connect to a router via network cable so you can view the cameras via your local network, or from the www - easiest if you have a static ip.

The DVR is fairly easy to use, with all operations performed mainly with a few buttons of the front. There are a lot of menu settings but you don't need to adjust many to get up and running the way you want.

The cameras can be set to record:

• all the time
• on motion detect
• specific times, adjustable for each day of the week
• or, a mixture of the above

At the moment I have mine set to record all the time during the day, and at night on motion detect only. The reason for this is I found during the day the motion detect is getting triggered all the time anyway from shadows, changing light etc. Each camera has a number of settings to adjust motion sensitivity etc, but I've just left as standard for now.

This site has quite a bit of information, including pics and the user manuals:
http://www.hometechnologyclub.com.au...&products_id=4

Would I recommend one of these kits? Absolutely! They are great value for an entry level system. Where did I buy from? http://www.rhinosecurity.com/go.php?...ist&group_id=2 Price? Under $700 delivered which is great value.

The cameras can also play an alarm when motion is detected. The only real gripe I have is it seems if you turn this on, all cameras will set off the alarm, when I only want specific ones to do this (and this was because of all the false alarms during the day).

The camera picture obviously isn't as good at night as it is during the day, but it is quite acceptable.

30m camera from the front:


30m camera from the back:


Monitor showing all 4 cameras:


Monitor showing camera 1:


15m camera:


DVR unit:


Night pics below.

The light appears purplish on camera, but it is red to the naked eye. It also appears much brighter on camera than to the naked eye.

[HSVZ]

Just found some new style cameras, might have to get one as a test !!

[ERASER]

OMG. MORE Cameras! Might be able to catch the santas this time. lol..................

[MRSHSV]

You will need more than a camera for those santa's.... you will need a trap