CCTV Help

powerfulp · 16 Mar 2011

Could do with some advice. On a Bungalow: I want to purchase & mount an outdoors single camera, preferably wireless. Also need a monitor.
Mainly for watching wild life.. Ideally something reliable, not cheap stuff.

Am totally new to this and would appreciate advice as to where to start, Any reliable sellers ? Any Installers for such a small job in South east ?

Thanks in advance.

oasistechnical · 16 Mar 2011

1st thing 1st

you do not want to use a wireless system, the refresh rate is lousy!!

have a look around on Google for the following;

external IR camera with a TVL of 550 and above,
this will give you a good all round image quality,

if you are just going to view the camera you will need a BNC enabled monitor, or a computer monitor with a VGA adapter

if you are going to record it via a digital video recorder the output will most probably be VGA so a standard computer monitor will do.

Oasis

powerfulp · 16 Mar 2011

Thanks.
What is TVL.?
Which type of cable is used for this system ?
Is Sansung a good make for such items ?

Have found BNC explanation

Alarm · 16 Mar 2011

TVL
Television Lines, the higher the better.

HH1 · 16 Mar 2011

Have a look at RFConcepts website.
http://www.rfconcepts.co.uk/index.htm
Plenty of choice there and quick delivery.

I purchased a B&W low light bullet camera from them ages ago, as a kit. Just plugged straight into TV using phono plugs. It was something like 0.003 lux or similar and therefore gave exellent night time results. Image quality has degraded slightly but this may/may not be dirt on the lense, quite difficult to reach to clean so haven't bothered trying so far. Cost at the time for the complete kit (camera, mounting bracket, power supply unit, extra cable length) was under £100. Forgot the exact price though.

digdilem · 16 Mar 2011

Or just buy an ip camera and watch on your computer, laptop or remotely across the internet.

Y-Cam black has infra-red led's built in (good for about 8m in my experience), 640x480, "up to" 30fps, wireless or wired, and works pretty good - I'm running 8 or so of these. Just set it to your wireless and give it some power. Don't need anything else.

The new ones will record onto sd card too - motion or steady, and you can record to computer remotely too.

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