5 MegaGixel 1/1.8" low light destroyer for $90-AVOID LONGSE JUNK

[nayr]

the key is it cannot have any of the soffit in frame, or else it will ruin the night image with IR reflection.. as long as you can avoid that it'll work fine.. it has 3-axis adjustment to cope with a non-square mounting.

 

[klasipca]

Alright, looks like it is surviving for now. It was cooler today as well.

 

[nayr]

is your's sun exposed? pix looks like its should be pretty well shaded.. I been toying with the idea of getting one of these for the back yard but its got a mean southern exposure and will see little shade, if any.

 

[klasipca]

No, no sun at all, but looks like external POE chokes in the enclosure when temperature was in the 90s.

 

[nayr]

keep a continuous ping running on it over the next few days and check it for packetloss, my birdhouse cam just shit a PoE splitter due to heat I suspect.. before it went i was seeing a little bit of packet loss and it continued to get worse until it just gave out entirely.

I think they are using crap voltage regulators on these cheap PoE devices, they should not be generating so much waste heat to just knock the voltage down.. unless they were horribly inefficient.

 

[Kawboy12R]

Maybe ventilate the roof and put a second roof over the top with a spacer to allow the heat to come out the top?

 

[bob2701]

is your's sun exposed? pix looks like its should be pretty well shaded.. I been toying with the idea of getting one of these for the back yard but its got a mean southern exposure and will see little shade, if any.

Mine has southern exposure and constant sun all day. Has been up for 4 months but here comes summer. I'll let you know how I make out. My solar works great!!

Opps, wrong thread, mine is the Mini PTZ 10X.

 

[FlipNJ]

My LRDC60S500 arrived. I hope I don't need the mini cd for installation since it was smashed in shipping.

 

[Q™]

My LRDC60S500 arrived. I hope I don't need the mini cd for installation since it was smashed in shipping.

I believe that all you will need is the IPCOCX_PX.exe executable which should be offered to download when you access the camera's IP address.

 

[hamsoplo]

Ha, mine just showed up with a smashed cd too. You can just download the programs

 

[FlipNJ]

I believe that all you will need is the IPCOCX_PX.exe executable which should be offered to download when you access the camera's IP address.

With no documentation, how do I find the cams address? Do you know the default address?

 

[klasipca]

Download ipsearch tool from their site. link in first post

 

[FlipNJ]

Their site.....???? Longse or Herospeed? The link offered by Klasipca is a stale link. I have it working but need to change the subnet to work on the network it will be attached to. The address is 192.168.1.168. I installed the IPcocx and installed but there is no working executable program on my PC. Clicking the installed exe file brings up a default windows error box asking what I want use to open the file.

 

[FlipNJ]

Darn Internet Explorer was blocking the active X. Allowed it and was able to log into the camera.

 

[klasipca]

Their site.....???? Longse or Herospeed? The link offered by Klasipca is a stale link.

Either going from Longse.com or directly to Herospeed would've taken you download area. They updated their site recently

 

[FlipNJ]

This POE adapter does run very hot. My garage is about 75 degrees so I can only imagine what 90 degrees will do when it is outside.
Makes me a little nervous about no ETL or UL rating. If it burns down my house, the ins company will be laughing.

 

[fenderman]

Makes me a little nervous about no ETL or UL rating. If it burns down my house, the ins company will be laughing.

The notion that an insurance carrier can disclaim coverage if a fire is started by a non UL compliant device is an internet myth. As long as the policy does not have a specific exclusion for non UL appliances (I have never seen that) they will not be successful at disclaiming.

 

[tangent]

The notion that an insurance carrier can disclaim coverage if a fire is started by a non UL compliant device is an internet myth. As long as the policy does not have a specific exclusion for non UL appliances (I have never seen that) they will not be successful at disclaiming.

Technically there's something in the NEC about everything you plug in being UL listed or something along those lines. If some junk device from china starts a fire, there may not be enough of it left for the investigators. If they slapped a fake UL logo on there's no way the insurance company could expect you to check the validity. So yeah, basically there isn't much danger from the insurance company. But some of the counterfeit chargers and untested stuff are quite dangerous and really shouldn't be used.

 

[pozzello]

just got my first S500 (3.6mm turret) hung up next to a Hik 3MP (2.8mm turret)

image settings at default/auto.

not real happy with the colors, but the light is kinda weird right now (as sun is setting)
Longse S500 on the left, Hik 2332 on the right. (BI snapshots at 100% jpg)



field of view is about the same. i prolly shoulda gone with the 5mm tho.

as it get darker, the s500 is starting to come into it's own:
(the dusk-activated xmas lights on the tree are already on)


and just after they both switched to B/W (still some light out):


pretty much as dark as it's gonna get tonight:

 

[klasipca]

You may need to adjust the lens as it appears to be soft in the near center and are you running at default settings? Looks like a lot of jpeg compression there. Bottom line it doesn't look as good as mine