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I'm very happy with it. Its a bit pricey (~$300) but I figure for the amount of money and time I've put into my system its a drop in the bucketThat is freaking awesome! I ordered once the CMVision 300-400ft IR blaster and I couldn't see a difference at all. My old Sunba PTZ was a better blaster LOL.
I need to get one of these - it would so help my one camera and some overflow would hit my plate area and maybe get some of these tough plates like you get!
I always forget about that site. Maybe I'll see if I can brighten it a bit more and see if perhaps I have confused a "S" with a "5" or something similar.Auto Check has no entry for S795TF as a Florida plate.
@wittaj So are you going to get a Laser bouncing off China cabinet mirror and give 210 feet a try again?Yep....I am guilty of oh I think I can improve this...and nope. If it works, don't mess with it LOL.
A month ago or so I thought - hey if I stretch this Z12 to 210 feet I could lessen my angle and be more straight on. Looked GREAT during the day. Nighttime got very few plates...
Then I had to re-adjust back to where it was pointing and these things can be a pain to fine tune point them at the zoom we run LOL.
That and the reflection off the parked car sideview mirror@wittaj So are you going to get a Laser bouncing off China cabinet mirror and give 210 feet a try again?
I can wholeheartedly recommend the Axton AT-11E-S. In addition to adjusting the shutter and gain to avoid washout by my Axton illuminator because it's so bright, I can and have lowered the aperture of my camera. The smaller aperture keeps the target in focus for greater range of distance, so adjusting the focus is not as critical for good capture.So now the results. How does it perform? Well, it performs so well, that I had to step up the shutter speed to 1/2000 and even gain down to 0 - 40 because my first plates that were captured were washed out and waaaay too "hot". I was lucky in that I aimed it right when I installed it so I didn't have to do any tweaking or moving. Here is a plate I got last night (capture in OpenALPR) with the Axton unit, for example, that I've never seen before at night with the built-in 5241-Z12 emitters: