Recent content by timjet

Yes it would, thanks.

Actually 4 wires, neutral and ground. There are 2 hot wires from the street transformer to the house and since I have a double pole breaker leading to the garage both legs are present. So what I think you're saying is I just need to find the common hot wire from the transformer that both the...

The garage is fed from a double pole breaker in the house.

My garage has its own 50 amp circuit powered from the main circuit breaker panel in the house and my router is inside the house so on a different circuit.

OP here, I replaced the NVR with one that is compatible with my camera's. I did not connect the camera with the underground cable that went to my detached garage to the new NVR but all the other camera's work. I do have power in the detached garage and a wifi access point as well. I may...

Thanks Techguy, your post was informative. I called Lorex and they gave me a deal on a new NVR that's compatible with my existing camera's. I was beginning to believe the POE ports on the NVR may have been the issue. After the strike the 5 thru 8 ports connected camera's weren't working. After...

Yes I think I can connect a cam to a 12VDC wall wart, performing a hard reset, and connecting it to their LAN but connect to its webGUI on a PC by opening a browser to its IP address I will need some help with.

Thanks again Tony. As you said I must decide if taking a chance and replacing the recorder and hoping the camera's work or replacing the entire system.

Thanks Tony, but you're talking way over my head. The 8 camera's came with the NVR and are Lorex branded. The camera model #: E892AB-Z.

3 weeks ago a tree next to my house got hit by lightning. My Lorex NVR model N842A8-Z would only display 4 of the 8 camera's connected to it. So today I attempted to reconnect the 4 camera's that didn't display and in do so I smelled a hot electrical smell. I disconnected power to the NVR and...