I had another Dahua cam fail, but this post isn't about that.

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So I had a 5442 S1 fail today. No signal, it won't boot with POE or 12vdc.
Anyway, this is what I'm posting about. The cam was mounted on a fence high enough I couldn't see the top of the cam.
When I took it down, I found this from what I'm sure is caused by one of our many Tree Rats (Squirrels).
Yes, it actually made divets in the aluminum. :wtf:

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looney2ns said:
So I had a 5442 S1 fail today. No signal, it won't boot with POE or 12vdc.
Anyway, this is what I'm posting about. The cam was mounted on a fence high enough I couldn't see the top of the cam.
When I took it down, I found this from what I'm sure is caused by one of our many Tree Rats (Squirrels).
Yes, it actually made divets in the aluminum. :wtf:

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Really soft metal, its time to start making IP cameras out of unobtanium lol
 
looney2ns said:
So I had a 5442 S1 fail today. No signal, it won't boot with POE or 12vdc.
Anyway, this is what I'm posting about. The cam was mounted on a fence high enough I couldn't see the top of the cam.
When I took it down, I found this from what I'm sure is caused by one of our many Tree Rats (Squirrels).
Yes, it actually made divets in the aluminum. :wtf:

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I don't understand why them frickin' bastage tree rats get the urge from time to time to chew metal...maybe it feels good or or it removes scale, God only knows. It's not like they don't have plenty of food here what with the acorns, walnuts, pine cones, etc.

Here's where they gnawed the overhead aluminum neutral/messenger feeding my MIL's house back in 2019; only 240VAC devices would work in her house (water heater, oven, dryer)...she had nothing 120VAC.... no lighting, TV, etc.

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When I was a traffic signal & lighting tech, the squirrels would chew in a perfect circle around the thermoplastic top of the photoelectric cell for the street light, open 'em up like someone had used an old fashioned can opener leaving the 'lid' sticking up. The rain would come in, mess up the circuitry after a time and we'd get a call for the street light day-burning. At least the PEC would fail with the light on, as the circuit is designed to power the lamp ON with the normally closed contacts of the relay.

Their gopher cousins would burrow into any electrical pull box in the ground...
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That is the paint，bit thick paint. The housing is alloy , maybe a nice one to do teeth grinding
Anyway, they have nice teeth.^^
 
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Squirrels teeth grow continuously and have to be worn down continuously. They chose the wiring of my solar panels for that. Fortunately I only had to remove 2 panels to get to the broken wire. Horrible creatures.

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