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  1. CaptainCrunch

    Review- New Design Tendelux 10 Watt IR illuminator.

    I guess I need to unplug it to see if the captures are much different. I installed it at the same time as the camera but I don't recall testing the camera without the ir. That's good to hear. Most of the times, the numbers seem to be only in best case conditions. B&H says expected availability...
  2. CaptainCrunch

    Review- New Design Tendelux 10 Watt IR illuminator.

    Have you tried out the Tendelux DI20 20 Watt IR illuminator? It's a 90* beam but claims an effective range of 150-240 feet. I have a z12e set up as an lpr at about 130 feet with a DI20 aimed in that direction to help out. The Iluminar claims a range of ~100 feet but the beam is a little more...
  3. CaptainCrunch

    Dahua WIZMIND X SERIES

    It sounds like you are saying you believe the 12mp camera set to record at 8mp should have the same limitations or lack of limitations as an 8mp camera recording at 8mp. If I'm not mistaken, the camera still captures the 12mp image then downscales it on the camera to 8mp. If that's the case...
  4. CaptainCrunch

    EmpireTech 2023 Thanksgiving Day and Black Friday Sales Nov.20-24th

    So far I've gotten number + 1 = winner number + 1 = winner number + 2 = winner
  5. CaptainCrunch

    EmpireTech 2023 Thanksgiving Day and Black Friday Sales Nov.20-24th

    It is only 3:18am there so I guess I should wait until the time a normal person wakes up.
  6. CaptainCrunch

    EmpireTech 2023 Thanksgiving Day and Black Friday Sales Nov.20-24th

    Ho posted this yesterday.
  7. CaptainCrunch

    EmpireTech 2023 Thanksgiving Day and Black Friday Sales Nov.20-24th

    1 down...only 61 left to go.
  8. CaptainCrunch

    EmpireTech 2023 Thanksgiving Day and Black Friday Sales Nov.20-24th

    That's actually the point of the lottery. It's designed to increase sales. Sure, anyone can win. But your odds increase the more cameras you buy.
  9. CaptainCrunch

    EmpireTech 2023 Thanksgiving Day and Black Friday Sales Nov.20-24th

    My nvr went from Shenzhen, China, to Memphis, TN in about 48 hours. That's not mush of a delay to me.
  10. CaptainCrunch

    This is Mind-blowing

    What about the DOT Helper. It looked like he may have been in front of his truck and took a ride on his hood. Was there anyone in the car?
  11. CaptainCrunch

    This is Mind-blowing

    successiveI agree with most of the above. I think the guy pulling the trailer was moving over as a courtesy for the vehicles on the side of the road. It sure looks to me like the truck just didn't want to let the trailer in. In the first picture, it looks like the trailer has enough room to...
  12. CaptainCrunch

    EmpireTech 2023 Thanksgiving Day and Black Friday Sales Nov.20-24th

    Oh, I know. I already plan to have a SD22204UE-GN-W in the back of the house so me or the wife can access it through the wireless connection to keep an eye on the kids in the pool. I'll have a color bullet for the back patio and a 5442 for people approaching the back door. Overview will be from...
  13. CaptainCrunch

    EmpireTech 2023 Thanksgiving Day and Black Friday Sales Nov.20-24th

    I have 7-8 cameras I still need to install. Any new cameras, like a thermal camera, would enhance the planned coverage, not add new coverage.
  14. CaptainCrunch

    EmpireTech 2023 Thanksgiving Day and Black Friday Sales Nov.20-24th

    There are a few cameras I would like to get but I have to tell myself I need to pace myself and save some cameras for the next sale.
  15. CaptainCrunch

    Blue Iris PC and EmpireTech NVR together?

    Thanks, that's what I thought I figured out but wanted to ask a pro to be sure. It looks like the 6 series has 2 network ports. They are also geared more for businesses and start off at $1K. That's a little much for my budget for a test platform. I don't mind plugging the NVR into the camera...
  16. CaptainCrunch

    Blue Iris PC and EmpireTech NVR together?

    To extend this conversation, I have my cameras on a separate network. All of the cameras are connected to POE switches. The BI is plugged into the switch. A dual NIC allows me to also plug the BI into the main network. If I want to add an NVR for testing and backup purposes, I should be able to...
  17. CaptainCrunch

    EmpireTech 2023 Thanksgiving Day and Black Friday Sales Nov.20-24th

    Are you going to deliver my lottery super prize in person?
  18. CaptainCrunch

    I put together a sky/roof rig with (4) 180* Color4K cams...

    I'd have to consider adding the EmpireTech PTZ1A2M. Your setup seems like it would make great spotter cams.
  19. CaptainCrunch

    I put together a sky/roof rig with (4) 180* Color4K cams...

    In the view example, all of the camera views are pretty level. In the shots of the build, half the camera shrouds are mounted opposite the other half. Are you going to be mounting them with half facing more up and the other half facing more down?
  20. CaptainCrunch

    Subdivision Monitoring - Smallest Viable System Recommendations

    That's great. I learned something else new. I was able to add one of the NVRs from the wiki to SmartPSS.
  21. CaptainCrunch

    Subdivision Monitoring - Smallest Viable System Recommendations

    I'm in the process of convincing my hoa to add cameras. I've learned a few things during my research so I may be able to address some of the things that I did not know that I didn't know when I started. The Z12E is popular for catching plates. I've got 2 set up for just that purpose. They are...
  22. CaptainCrunch

    EmpireTech 2023 Thanksgiving Day and Black Friday Sales Nov.20-24th

    I can volunteer to buy 4 more tickets if you really really NEED them gone.
  23. CaptainCrunch

    This is a little different...

    I don't think I'd limit that group to drug addicts. The system and a year's worth of coverage is about $500. I think a better use of that money would be to get a locking bed cover.
  24. CaptainCrunch

    ANPR NVR Confusion

    So an anpr camera will recognize a plate and put the plate number in the metadata it sends to the nvr. The nvr has a search function that allow you to search the metadata for criteria, like color and plate and stuff. In your case, your nvr tries to isolate the plate but doesn't read it because...
  25. CaptainCrunch

    ANPR NVR Confusion

    Are you able to maintain a database of plate numbers?
  26. CaptainCrunch

    ANPR NVR Confusion

    I'm looking for an NVR that will be paired with a IPC-LPR437B-IR camera. As I understand it, with an sd bard, the camera has the ai built in to capture and read plates and store those plates in a database. The NVR8CH-8P-2AI says it can create a data base with up to 20,000 plate numbers...
  27. CaptainCrunch

    Review - EmpireTech IPC-TPC124X-AI 1/2.7'' CMOS 4MP Thermal Network Mini Hybrid Eyeball Camera

    That's what I would have thought. The main stream from the thermal camera is 1280x960. That means the camera takes the 50k pixels and sends out 1.3M pixels? It sends out 25x more data than it takes in?
  28. CaptainCrunch

    Review - EmpireTech IPC-TPC124X-AI 1/2.7'' CMOS 4MP Thermal Network Mini Hybrid Eyeball Camera

    Ah. Thank you. I missed that part. I must have stopped looking after the second line under thermal. That makes me wonder what the max resolution means if it doesn't mean the max resolution.
  29. CaptainCrunch

    Review - EmpireTech IPC-TPC124X-AI 1/2.7'' CMOS 4MP Thermal Network Mini Hybrid Eyeball Camera

    When I saw this picture, my first thought was that I hope the deer don't jump off the cliff. The specs list the thermal resolution as 256 (H) × 192 (V). Is the resolution of the thermal measured differently somehow? That's the size of a high quality desktop icon. Some of the images, like the...
  30. CaptainCrunch

    A Truck with chemical gas explode on 7th in China

    I think they're lucky they ran off in the direction they did instead of down the wall.
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