Motion Sensor - trigger cam and floodlight?

[Vince71]

Hi, first post. I have three IP cams and one motion sensor that triggers the DI on one of the IP cams. I'm interested in adding two more cams and also IR illuminators which I have never used before. I was thinking about also adding a white floodlight over my driveway, triggered by motion. I was concerned about buying a standard motion floodlight with a motion sensor that is subpar that would be negatively affected by IR illuminators. I wanted to get a better dual sensor motion detector that can trigger my IP cam and a white floodlight. Is there an easy way to do this?

Anyone have motion floodlights that work OK with IR illuminators close by? Thanks.

 

[nzipcamera]

I have my LED pathway lights and two IR lights on two separate motion senors (one at either end of the pathway) This seems to work really well. The camera gets a nice clear night time image and the house isn't lit up like a Christmas tree.
As most IR lights have a daylight sensor built in. You will find the flood lights will turn the IR lights off. I guess you could always put a piece of tape across the IR lights sensor to stop this.
What type of cameras were you looking at?

 

[Vince71]

I use ACTi cameras. I think there is a way to have the motion detector's alarm signal trigger two devices if I daisy chain them and use the correct type of trigger (either NC or NO). I did not get the hardware yet so I have not tried it. That is a good point about the white light turning off the IR light, I did not think of that. That should be OK, the camera won't need the IR if the white light turns on.

 

[nzipcamera]

Ok I have Hikvision. I've got the wiring diagrams for Hikvision cameras but nothing for ACTi, sorry. Ive been really inpressed with Hikvision.

Do you want to stick with ACTi ?

I have my lights wired in parallel so if one fails the rest keep working. A daisy chain topology wouldn't be a good idea. Make sure you place a electrical relay between any high current devices (lights) and the motion sensor / camera trigger. I wired mine so that the two motion sensors and camera trigger/alarm are all separated by a relay from any high current or voltages. The last thing you want to do is fry a expensive camera or motion sensor with too much current or over voltage.

 

[David Davis]

Hi there, my friend is using motion floodlights.