Recent content by EssDeeEll

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    Automotive IR emitter

    I'm right there with you on the ridiculous speed limits. I don't have a problem with speeding as a whole, as long as it is appropriate for the time and place. This is my road They regularly reach speeds of 50mph through here. Not appropriate at all, it's a 30 limit. 25 is a good speed. Just...
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    Automotive IR emitter

    Already I've found something that makes me a bit happier.... "PhotoShield™ is a clear plastic license plate cover that incorporates a thin diffusion lens designed to make your license plate unreadable and distorted to traffic cameras when viewed at an angle "
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    Automotive IR emitter

    It's a shame things like these are available so freely. The only deterrent is a high fine - $5000 I'm going to look in to how they work. It must be some sort of refraction.
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    Automotive IR emitter

    There's definitely something up with the rear plates over here. Not all, but some. I'd say 2 in 20. They simply are not reflective to the standard I believe the law requires. Saw one today while walking. The yellow pigment seemed very paint like and flat as opposed to a subtle sparkling sheen...
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    My Speeding Dectector Setup

    I've put my local police force and council on notice - if there is a death I have years and years of footage of speeders with number plates (manually acquired with the MK1 eyeball) and I'll drag them to court with the community behind me. The problem with the radar in my case is that there are...
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    Automotive IR emitter

    I wonder why the slight difference between yellow/white?
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    Automotive IR emitter

    Here's a police car with reflective livery - this was 1/1000 though. Think I'm better off at 1/500 Just going to have to accept there are some plates I simply will not catch unless I relocate the cam more in line with the direction of cars. OR, get another cam facing the other way since I...
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    Automotive IR emitter

    Right now I have the floodlight on the dashboard of my van pointing directly at the plate, but my camera is at an angle. No difference in plate brightness. I think you're right about the fact it has to be right down the lens - there's not much more perfect than the IR LEDs built into the camera...
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    Automotive IR emitter

    It's a 150 LED floodlight thing - more of a 6ft bright spot with a 30ft aura. It's either too much or too little in most of my other applications.
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    Automotive IR emitter

    I'm not sure. The retro reflective surfaces I've seen tend to have some structure visually, indentations and undulations and such. Our plates are more like the stuff they use to make reflective painted road markings. Like a paste with reflective sand that glows more than it reflects.
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    Automotive IR emitter

    I'm not sure why but for me at night no amount of extra IR seems to make any difference when my shutter is 1/500 0-33 gain and some HLC. Maybe I'm doing something wrong but that was my observation in my setup. EDIT: Must add that I am capturing diagonally, I've yet to ask my neighbour opposite...
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    LPR Night Time Settings

    Hey BigRedFish, can you explain why your gain starts at 10 and what this does? I always wondered why there was an option. Also you have a manually adjustable iris? Do you balance this with the shutter? Mine is either auto or off so I leave it off. Thanks in advance.
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    My Speeding Dectector Setup

    I share your annoyance with speeders - I have the same here. Police and council not interested until someone is killed, then we get the old "lessons have been learned, things will change.....", with any luck they'll change the record. Here in the UK you can force businesses and public bodies to...
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    LPC - CBR vs VBR?

    This should give a better idea - this would be like being in the capture zone. The cam is up under the roof ledge where the arrow is pointing.
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    LPC - CBR vs VBR?

    I think with hindsight it's more like 25-35 feet or there about. With the optical zoom it looks to be as if the camera was only 15 feet away. Roll on 1am, 00:25 right now. I also have a white box van which I purposely park with the back doors facing the capture zone as it seems the reflection...
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