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In an effort to satisfy my obsessive-compulsion to install IP cameras at our facility I decided to add a fourth outside camera to cover one of our parking areas.
This parking area is illuminated at night by flood lights, so good IR wasn't a need. The camera needed to be installed approximately 28-feet high on the side of our building, mounted to an existing floodlight pole. As our budget is always tight I decided to go with a 4MP, 2.8mm, AliExpress, DS-2CD3345-I for $88.50. It came. It works. Yah baby.
The cable run from the LCOM surge suppressor/lightning-arrestor to the new camera is approximately 125-feet and I choose Shireen CC-1021 Outdoor Shielded solid copper cable (which was recommended in another post here at IpCamTalk.com...I can't remember who recommended it but thanks a million because this cable is super heavy duty high-quality stuff). A+++ cable IMO.
Working up 28-feet on an extension ladder is not a safe proposition, so we used a man-cage and put one of our fork trucks outside to lift the cage and the man (me) into position.
To mount the camera onto the floodlight pole I built a custom-mount using some excess StarBoard® we had laying around (free) along with a Home Depot galvanized wood fence to steel pole adapter which cost $4.97.
The installation was relatively uneventful and proceeded just about as planned...I finished up by wrapping the HIK pigtail in Coax-Seal®.
As an afterthought I added some additional camera signs (one type I purchased at Home Depot and the other I had custom made on the Internet); I see signs as a great deterrent. I'd rather be scaring the bad-guys away than handing the police a video that probably won't be very much help in apprehending the evil-doers.
Pictures are attached (and links to the products I used for this installation follow).
It was fun...but it only mollified by IP camera compulsion for a couple of days.
Now...if...I...can...just...figure...out...where...to...put...the...next...camera...
This parking area is illuminated at night by flood lights, so good IR wasn't a need. The camera needed to be installed approximately 28-feet high on the side of our building, mounted to an existing floodlight pole. As our budget is always tight I decided to go with a 4MP, 2.8mm, AliExpress, DS-2CD3345-I for $88.50. It came. It works. Yah baby.
The cable run from the LCOM surge suppressor/lightning-arrestor to the new camera is approximately 125-feet and I choose Shireen CC-1021 Outdoor Shielded solid copper cable (which was recommended in another post here at IpCamTalk.com...I can't remember who recommended it but thanks a million because this cable is super heavy duty high-quality stuff). A+++ cable IMO.
Working up 28-feet on an extension ladder is not a safe proposition, so we used a man-cage and put one of our fork trucks outside to lift the cage and the man (me) into position.
To mount the camera onto the floodlight pole I built a custom-mount using some excess StarBoard® we had laying around (free) along with a Home Depot galvanized wood fence to steel pole adapter which cost $4.97.
The installation was relatively uneventful and proceeded just about as planned...I finished up by wrapping the HIK pigtail in Coax-Seal®.
As an afterthought I added some additional camera signs (one type I purchased at Home Depot and the other I had custom made on the Internet); I see signs as a great deterrent. I'd rather be scaring the bad-guys away than handing the police a video that probably won't be very much help in apprehending the evil-doers.
Pictures are attached (and links to the products I used for this installation follow).
It was fun...but it only mollified by IP camera compulsion for a couple of days.
Now...if...I...can...just...figure...out...where...to...put...the...next...camera...
- http://www.homedepot.com/p/YARDGARD-2-3-8-in-Adjustable-Wood-Adapter-328598C/204510284
- http://www.amazon.com/Shireen-DC-1021-Outdoor-CAT5e-FTP/dp/B009WA56NK
- http://www.aliexpress.com/item/New-model-DS-2CD3345-I-4MP-IR-Network-Dome-IP-security-CCTV-POE-HD-camera-H265/32450754424.html
- http://www.kingplastic.com/products/king-starboard/
- http://www.amazon.com/Coax-Seal-Connector-Sealant-12in-Rolls/dp/B005PQRL5Q/
- https://www.l-com.com/multimedia/datasheets/DS_ALS-CAT5EJWP.PDF
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