OMG Thermal!

It makes you wonder why they don't have these, with matching zoom lens on the PTZ to aid target tracking.. have two other cam's zoomed slighly further out from the PTZ's main lens and these can advise where it needs to move to keep the target centered.. .follow behind trees etc

even better would be if you could pull this back to a NVR or software which would decide that your one target had become two and send another PTZ to follow the second
 
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Yeah much like the one I had (gave to a buddy for his farm) one measures temp and displays it. The other sees but doesn’t give you temp readings
 
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Is there any downside to getting the temperature measurement camera instead of the other one? Are any important features lost?
 
I only played with the one, and not that long. The downside of the temps one I had was no IVS only MD. But that actually worked fine for me as the thermal doesn’t see leaves and shadows nor bugs that well
 
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bigredfish said:
The downside of the temps one I had was no IVS only MD.
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I thought I had read that, but the specs section for the thermal camera says this:
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Which is why I'm asking about this in the first place. Maybe a mistake in Andy's specs? I pulled the Dahua spec sheets for both cameras and they both say IVS is in there, but the available lens sizes are different: 2mm and 3,5mm with Andy, and 2mm and 7mm on the data sheets.

On a non-US Dahua page, there is a 3.5mm listed. And it also lists tripwire and intrusion.
TPC-DF1241-T-S2 - Dahua CEEN Region

So I'm as confused as heck. I'm going to ask Andy over on his fall sale thread.
 
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It may be he's selling newer models. The ones we bought cheap off the guy on Ebay were from 2001 Covid era
 
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tigerwillow1 said:
I thought I had read that, but the specs section for the thermal camera says this:
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Which is why I'm asking about this in the first place. Maybe a mistake in Andy's specs? I pulled the Dahua spec sheets for both cameras and they both say IVS is in there, but the available lens sizes are different: 2mm and 3,5mm with Andy, and 2mm and 7mm on the data sheets.

On a non-US Dahua page, there is a 3.5mm listed. And it also lists tripwire and intrusion.
TPC-DF1241-T-S2 - Dahua CEEN Region
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there is full IVS for each channel on my thermal (bought from Andy, TPC124X-AI-S2).. supported tripwires and intrusions...

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One more thing for people interested in thermal (especially the cheapest models from Eureka line, which is sold by Andy)..

Don't buy those cams for normal video functionality. Only for thermal one.
Those have very shitty small image sensor, very closed aperture and very bad image processing.
Even using IR performance at night is bad.. Any 5442 will kill & eat for breakfast those cams at normal video performance.

Also don't buy 2.8mm version as replacement as normal 2.8/3.8 turret mounted on totally dark back of house.
I did this mistake and now I known that this cam is not for that. Again any 5442 works better for those situations.

This cams shows own value when You want to monitor 'heat signatures' (like animals & people) at bigger distances inside some bushes / forest where normal video cams don't see anything.
For that use more zoomed versions..

Thermal sensor have very low resolution: 256x192 in Eureka line, 400x300 in Pro series (much higher price)..
Yes, they need only a few pixels to catch any animal movement, but remember: You need more zoomed version for Yours monitored distances...
 
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