jono300

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eBay.co.uk: Infra Red Night Vision Camera Wireless CCTV Spycam UK (item 320043169962 end time 05-Nov-06 13:00:00 GMT)

Anyone any experience off these cheap wireless cctv cams sold on ebay as per the link above ??

having read this chaps advert it certainly seems as if it could well be a very good low cost form off security, particularly like his idea off using software to access the cctv image from your pda / laptop or whatver from wherever you are.

anyone here use one ??

Johnny E

My experience's with wireless cctv is that I end up ripping them out and fitting a wired system.....................

i8gtmf

I fit cctv for a living so i can say from experience they are rubbish. Ok they are better than nothing but the ir part allows you to see about 3 feet in front of the camera when it's dark and the daytime picture quality is pretty poor.

StickyMicky

yup go for wires and don't expect much from the nightvision mode


i have 3 different types here at work

cam1


this is a Panasonic (i think? been 3 years since i put it up) CCD camera in a maplins external housing, its up a 30/40 foot pole, i cant remember which lens i used

cam2

this is a cheap micromark black and white cam from B&Q, the nightvision mode is very good considering and can see pretty much everything in the dark.

cam3 and cam4



cheap wired ebay specials, with "nightvision" mode, the cam is supposed to go into black and white mode at night, in reality, you can not see **** all when the lights go out, cam 3 is in a proper housing with a glass front as its inside the carwash and would get wet.

here is both cams last night for instance

office cam in nightvision mode

as you can see, its crap LOL

wash exit cam not in nightvision mode due to a big light in view


the 6 white dots are the "infrared" beams bouncing back of the housing glass front and being picked up

not very good either

The Hoff

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Jono - I bought on of these a while back, they are ok for a bit of fun but not much else. The signal is very hard to keep constant and the nighttime quality is not great.

jono300

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Cheers guys really do appreciatte all the advice given, very helpful indeed.

cheers

j4ckos mate

i expect it would be a fasle economy to be honest

use a cheap camera to protect something of value

alistair

Not cheap, but I can recomend this camera which is high res colour by day and infra red sensitive by night. Wired though, but it's not exactly hard, I have them mounted high and run the cables through the loft.

I've got a couple of them with the big IR illuminator here they work really well. I tried the smaller illuminators, but they weren't really up to the job - i've got mine mounted up high on the house and one lights up the drive and cars and the other covers the back.