Business Security and Personal Security Issues
Voltage Polarity
One of the most important things to remember about your cameras is their power polarity. Almost all 12V DC cameras are polarity sensitive, which simply means, if you connect the negative wire from your camera into the positive terminal of your power supply it will actually fry components in the camera. This will damage the [...]
CCTV Hard Drive Shortages – Factories Flooded
As some of you may already know the massive floods in Thailand have affected the current world supply of hard drives and hard drive components. The availability plummeted the day after, due to increased panic purchasing, based off of projected shortages for up to the next 9 months. It may take this long until the [...]
Infrared Camera Questions
by Jennifer Spears I have heard a few interesting questions this week on infrared cameras so I thought I would post and then answer them here. 1. Why does the infrared camera turn to B&W at night? – B&W camera chip sets can see in the infrared spectrum, thus they can see the infrared illumination [...]
License Plate Recognition Cameras
by Jennifer Spears – Business Solutions Manager License Plate Recognition Cameras otherwise known as LPR cameras are meant to do one thing. Can you guess what it is??? You guessed it! They are made to capture license plates very VERY well. If you aren’t familiar with LPR technology let me explain a few things. These [...]
Wireless Cameras – what you can REALLY expect!
by Jennifer Spears So you’ve decided that you need cameras. And wireless is going to fix every problem you have with running cables, getting power to the cameras, and it’s going to be snap to install them… Let me go ahead and get my fairy wand out for you! Because that’s the only thing that [...]
Rugged CCTV Hires New Brand Manager
I’d like to introduce you to our newest employee. Dale Burnett has accepted our offer of employment as a manager – Brand Marketing. His first day was July 5th 2011. Dale has 21 years of experience in increasingly responsible roles within sales & marketing with a manufacturing firm. In his most recent position, Dale managed [...]
New Phone APP Lets You View Up To 16 Cameras Simultaneously
The Importance of Labeling Your Cables
by Jennifer Spears Now I know this is going to sound really REALLY simple – because it is. But it is SO important and I just don’t think a lot of customers or installers (you know who you are) think to do it until it is too late. LABEL YOUR CABLING. Yup that’s it. When [...]
DVR Input Connectors – The Good, the Bad and the Observation System
by Jennifer Spears Here are the 3 most common analog style video input connectors you will find on cameras and DVRs. BNC, RCA and RJ11. I’ll discuss each briefly and tell you what to watch out for. (RJ45 connectors are used for Network and IP camera connections, and we will cover this style of connector [...]

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