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    Review- New Design Tendelux 10 Watt IR illuminator.

    Partially off topic, I've tried 4 or 5 of the round 4-watt IR illuminators. After a few years every single one, including Tendelux, let water inside. I suspect it's because the plastic seal between the body halves shrinks. If ithe problem gets caught early enough, the illuminator can be...
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    Camera side RJ-45 wire sequence

    Educated guessing: The green and orange pairs are pretty self explanatory, other than you don't know if the original wiring was 568A or 568B. In a thread just this last week with the same question, the camera connector was wired with 568B. The brown and blue would be for power when the source...
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    Dahua WizColor 5x59-PRO and SmartLight 5x59-IL new series

    Good question. I'm using Brave and I of course should have tried IE on my own. All the other things I've tried seem to work good with Brave.
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    The Nostalgia Thread

    When in college one of my profs said there would be a computer on every desk, terabyte memory, and glass cockpits in the planes. I thought he was crazy, and obviously know now I was the not-so-bright one. This was when a big IBM mainframe had 32k words of memory.
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    Dahua WizColor 5x59-PRO and SmartLight 5x59-IL new series

    I can't zig-zag, straight lines only. But you can have a bunch more than 4 of them, as on older cameras.
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    The official "WTF" thread

    Is this gaslighting, incompetence, fraud, or what? Yahoo "news" headline says Sounds pretty clear to me. But the headline for the story it links to says something different And the text of the story says Exactly OPPOSITE of the yahoo headline. Can we believe anything we read or hear?
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    US Elections (& Politics) :)

    I'd like it to be seen as a requirement to post a link to any article or social media post that's repeated in IPCT.
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    Dahua WizColor 5x59-PRO and SmartLight 5x59-IL new series

    Andy, are you going to carry any of the IL-series cameras? About how much less would they cost, compared to the PRO?
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    Dahua WizColor 5x59-PRO and SmartLight 5x59-IL new series

    IR light comparison of 5442 S2 and 54PRO, both 3.6mm, shutter range 0-3 ms., cameras about a foot apart. These 3 images are from the 54PRO. Top image, the 5442's IR light running at 100%. The center hotspot does help light up the distant fence. Middle image, 54PRO IR light running at 100%...
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    Dahua WizColor 5x59-PRO and SmartLight 5x59-IL new series

    Question: Can the PRO's DC power output support an external 4 watt IR illuminator? The first-cut answer is "maybe". My fixed-focus PRO did power the illuminator OK in a short test. The data is: No load output voltage: 11.5 Illuminator off via its photocell: voltage 11.3, current 6ma...
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    Fixing Ethernet Cable On Camera -- 6 wire ?

    If I understand what you wrote correctly, the tester is not meant to do what you're wanting it to. It is to test a patch cable, with the tester plugged on one end, and its remote plugged on the other end. It cannot test the cable hardwired to the camera. This pinout looks totally logical...
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    US Elections (& Politics) :)

    "Inside Melissa’s eyewall, the C-130J was thrown hundreds of feet up and down in seconds, nearly 700 feet of vertical motion within a single minute. " With one of the C130's specs being: Rate of climb: 1,830 ft/min (9.3 m/s) I don't get why 700 feet in a minute is even worth mentioning.
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    The official "WTF" thread

    I think the dems made a big strategic mistake here. The BBB took away a bunch of their pet handout programs. Since it was passed under reconciliation, it passed even though all of them opposed it. They saw blaming the shutdown on the repubs as a way to get their handouts back, but it...
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    The official "WTF" thread

    I've run into this before while proofreading things I've written than contain "rn". I fix it, and it still looks like "m". An unforseen gotcha in the font design.
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    EmpireTech 2025 Autumn Sales

    Let's hope for a 1,000% tariff decrease so Andy can send cameras for free and still make a good profit!
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