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Yesterday, my misses asked me what that solar panel thingy is in the front lawn.
Review- New Design Tendelux 10 Watt IR illuminator.
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JDWX
Getting the hang of it
Was pondering grabbing a different illuminator earlier and thought I'd come here and check what was being used. Glad I did! 
Yesterday, my misses asked me what that solar panel thingy is in the front lawn.
I never thought about it, but I bet most people would mistake it for a small solar device during the day if it is mounted on the ground and/or away from any CCTV cameras.
One year update, it's still working perfectly. No problems.
It's been exposed to some serious weather over the past yr of all types.
Wind driven torrential rain.
100 degree temps.
-6 below temps.
It's been exposed to some serious weather over the past yr of all types.
Wind driven torrential rain.
100 degree temps.
-6 below temps.
Yep, me too. I have 3 20 watt and 3 10 watt "new design" IRs currently, and they are still going strong!
Mike A.
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4 of my 5 have been good too. One died after a heavy rain but it miraculously came back to life after sitting for months.
I have two being delivered on Monday to use with my mini PTZ.
Looks great! You'll be amazed with the difference. Would like to see before/after pictures if possible. How are you providing power to these?
Thanks! The cables from the illuminators go into the weather proof box that you see mounted on the mast. They connect to extension cables inside the box and the cables travel down the conduit you see and under the house. Then they plug into an outlet that I have under the house in the crawl space.
Gotcha. I power all of mine using low-voltage landscape lighting transformers.
You should have some drip loops on your cables before they go into the junction box.
But they look great.
Can't wait to see the results.
Definitely some drip loops on those wires just prior to them entering the box.
CanCuba
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Great setup and image looks great! Hopefully you get some good wildlife video!
Yep, external IR can really turn the mini-PTZ into a winner!
Parley
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I changed the wiring. Originally I had one POE cable running to this fence post, so I had 3 cameras, a POE extender, and two of those CMVision IR40 illuminators (4W each?) all running off that one cable run, off of a single POE+ 802.3at port from an Amcrest AMPS5E4P-At-65. It will allegedly deliver 30W to one port and 65W to all 4 combined:
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I ran a second cable* out of the POE+ switch to power one camera and one illuminator, which reduces the load on both the POE extender and that one POE+ port:
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It works! I ran the 10W illuminators for 5-6 minutes last night, and nothing shut off like it did last time.
I need to find some daytime when I can mount the two Tendelux illuminators, and I also want to zip tie some of that diffuser material onto them, so it'll be a few days before I get new and improved coyote footage.
* running that second cable was supposed to take 20 minutes, but it took 2.5 hours because my pulling eye got unscrewed from the fish tape in the middle of the conduit, so I ended up with an empty conduit and no pull string. The conduit run is only about 30', but it has a few bends that I can't push through, so I had to vacuum a new pull string through it, which required me schlepping the shop vac and 3 extension cords down to the trail. But at least it worked!!
Are you feeding the Tendelux 10W IR illuminator off of the IP camera power plug? The 5.5mm x 2.1mm connector?
Just a small update. My install of the Tendelux illuminators consisted of their 30' 12 volt extension cables. One for each unit. I noticed one of my illuminators was turning off every couple minutes then back on after several seconds. The other illuminator was staying on just fine. I swapped power cables between the two units and the other illuminator started doing the same thing. So I knew the one power cable or power supply was suspect. I ended up connecting a different 12 volt power supply with a higher amperage rating and the illuminator stays on just fine now. I think the included power supplies might be borderline for what they are intended to power.
Parley
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Thank you for the update. I plan on doing that if I do buy one. A 30' 12 volt extension cable would get me close to a 120VAC outlet.
TheWaterbug
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Correct. I bypassed the power input diode on the internal circuit board, so the 12 V inside the camera from the POE circuit comes back out the barrel connector. Just needs a gender changer.