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Colour Camera Going Black & White


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Hi Guys,

we have a 14 camera system installed at clients offices. 3 of the 14 internal cameras (dome infrared) are giving a black & white image half way through the day.

If i power them off then on, the problem goes away but seems to come back after a few hours?

2 of the cameras are on 40 metres runs and the other is on a 20 metres run all over cat5e with passive video baluns on both ends? Using a 10amp 16 way 12v power supply unit. (Am I overusing the maximum 10amps???)

anyone come accross any problems such as this? any advice on what i could look at?? I'm due to go back to site on thursday so would not mine some advice on what I could try.

Thanks

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First thoughts power problems. Might be worth putting one of the cameras on a seperate psu to see what happens.

Also, I've had similar probs that turned out to be the dvr and by swapping channels everthing was ok for a while.

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Hi Guys,

we have a 14 camera system installed at clients offices. 3 of the 14 internal cameras (dome infrared) are giving a black & white image half way through the day.

If i power them off then on, the problem goes away but seems to come back after a few hours?

2 of the cameras are on 40 metres runs and the other is on a 20 metres run all over cat5e with passive video baluns on both ends? Using a 10amp 16 way 12v power supply unit. (Am I overusing the maximum 10amps???)

anyone come accross any problems such as this? any advice on what i could look at?? I'm due to go back to site on thursday so would not mine some advice on what I could try.

Thanks

If the picture is still Mono with a camera connected to your test monitor.

I'd start by getting your meter out and checking to see what the supply voltage is at the camera, seems unlikely that your overloading a 10A psu with 14 Cameras though, that would mean over 700mA each....... more likely volts drop in the cable.

how much light is there in the area, is it a cleanish site, or are the lenses covered in dust ? never had one changeover thriugh dust, but I spose it could happen.

Lastly, do they all go Mono at the same time, or seperately ? if so, look for a common denominaor.

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Could just be as simple as the lighting level ....if the area gets dull inthe afternoon the camera could just switch to mono.

I assume the led's are coming on aswell....when it switches to mono

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