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  1. Ri22o

    EmpireTech 10th Anniversary (Summer+Prime Day)Sales

    Andy, when will you have the lottery prize list available?
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    I bet a lot of you belong to the "HVAC crapped out at the worst time" club.

    Any affiliation with the South Harmon Institute of Technology?
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    I bet a lot of you belong to the "HVAC crapped out at the worst time" club.

    Got a call from my lady friend last night. She got home from work and her house was 81 degrees. Luckily it was just the capacitor and I was able to get one on short notice. I went ahead and ordered one to keep on the shelf for my house, because that's how the timing on these things work.
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    Same gallon of gas in 4 or 6 cylinder

    My theory has always been that they size the tank to get you 300 miles. No bigger, no smaller.
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    Camera in hot Texas attic? Will it last?

    Wouldn't it just be easier to get a remote temp/hygrometer?
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    Looking for advice on my install locations.

    If it weren't for a couple of the trees, I would have more freedom with the upper level of the house, but planning around them, and their growth, limits me a bit.
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    Looking for advice on my install locations.

    Yea, I like the look of my house, but the lack of gables complicates things like this and Christmas lights... I still have ethernet at the upper soffit location, so trying it there is still a possibility, but wanted to have a back up plan in case it was less than ideal. I would prefer it up...
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    Looking for advice on my install locations.

    Same as where the mini PTZ is now. See my picture above.
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    Looking for advice on my install locations.

    I've thought about asking the neighbors if I could set up wireless bridges and hang cameras off of their houses, but I always figure they will say no... Here is the front of my house. The mini PTZ used to be in the corner with the green circle on the upper soffit. Here is a video with it...
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    Looking for advice on my install locations.

    It's really there, or nowhere. Everything else is behind that point and would have poor line of site with the house or trees. The only other option is on the second story soffit, but I tried that with my mini PTZ and obviously moved it down. However, this was before I removed the tree though, so...
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    Looking for advice on my install locations.

    Relation to the road/sidewalk, for reference. That tree is no longer there.
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    Looking for advice on my install locations.

    I would be looking to replace the mini PTZ with the larger PTZ. Thoughts on having it this close to the ground? It's maybe 11'
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    Looking for advice on my install locations.

    For sure. No one thinks twice about cameras at stores, why can't I protect my stuff? Or any second thoughts about the FLOCK cameras tracking your every move around town. If I had a bunch of Ring cameras with solar panels, would that be ok?
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    Looking for advice on my install locations.

    Yea, that's where I am with it. It's at a high potential of recognize, but not enough to ID, necessarily. I have some thoughts I am going to try tonight, but who knows if they will work. My street is dark. No street lights, only the coach lights next to the garage doors on the houses and not...
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    "I want 2.8mm cameras everywhere to see everything..." - This is why you need specific FOVs with purposeful focal lengths.

    I added some videos to the top of the first post from my old set up, showing how bad the captures were.
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    Looking for advice on my install locations.

    I finally found and uploaded the footage from 2018 of a kid who had been vandalizing our neighborhood for a couple weeks. I captured this with my Lorex MPX system. Needless to say, anything I have now is better than these captures, but I want to make sure going forward that anything I do will...
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    Same gallon of gas in 4 or 6 cylinder

    Not to mention, the amount of emissions you are allowed is related to the size of the vehicle (or the other way around, even). This is why trucks have gotten so much bigger. The envelope the vehicle size has to meet for the emissions has gotten bigger, so they just make the truck bigger until...
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    Same gallon of gas in 4 or 6 cylinder

    I had a 2016 Chevy Colorado with the 2.8l 4 cylinder diesel. I deleted the exhaust, DEF, etc and was getting near 700 miles to a tank. This was also with oversized tires and definitely heavier wheels, so economy could have been even better. Fuel capacity is listed at 21 gallons with a combined...
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    Looking for advice on my install locations.

    "simply"
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    Looking for advice on my install locations.

    The last capture is 0-16 and gain at 0-22, I am not sure how much higher you want me to go. I am also not sure what .1333-.1666 range means. There is no smart IR, so I don't know why it would reduce the IR power.
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    Looking for advice on my install locations.

    Yea, the 25mm at 75'. No real light just whatever IR I have blasting from floods and other cameras.
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    Looking for advice on my install locations.

    Here is a dark capture at 16/22, not sure where to go with it from here. It looked much better on my phone screen than my PC screen, I am guessing because the smaller screen hides the noise better. I wonder if some of it is a focal point issue, or maybe I am just used to 4MP and seeing 2MP just...
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    Looking for advice on my install locations.

    It's still dusk here, so not quite dark, dark yet, but this is a transition capture that just happened. I'll chime back in with more in a bit. I will need to make some adjustments, I think some lenses are still on default Image settings. I'm running the onboard Day/Night switch, so maybe it is...
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    Looking for advice on my install locations.

    I considered Z4s for this as well, but had the 3X to test and figured why not give it a shot. I don't necessarily need 3 total overviews of the driveway..., but am liking the mid view (which seems longer than 12mm) that gives me additional coverage of my sidewalk at either side of the driveway...
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    Looking for advice on my install locations.

    Here it is with the spacer I made. It's still nowhere near dark, so it will be a bit longer before I can get some night captures. It also bothers the hell out of me that this thing will not index to 0* on the rotate adjustment. My other one is the same way.
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    Looking for advice on my install locations.

    Of all of them, that was one of the better ones, but I think I got lucky with it.
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    Looking for advice on my install locations.

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    Looking for advice on my install locations.

    For reference, it's 75' to the middle of the street and 100' to the other side.
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    Looking for advice on my install locations.

    I'll grab a picture of the spacer I made. It's 65mm tall, and could possibly be shorter, but for me it allows the camera full upward tilt while also clearing my Z12E LPR near it. I may design one that's shorter, but indexed and stackable, so you just stack as many as you need.
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    Looking for advice on my install locations.

    Well, it's been a minute since I have posted in here, but some happenings over the last couple nights have made me rethink my front coverage and my neighbors' opinion of me. This is a long, all-over-the-place post, so stay with me. During my journey I have made efforts to move towards...
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