Ready Made Mobile Cctv Kit

[daubs8]

I have to put together a mobile CCTV kit consisting of 12v dvr, a camera with 50mm lens, battery and charger etc. It will be sited in a vehicle to watch another vehicle over a weekend. I have sourced everything I need and need to order this week. I was just wondering if anybody had come across a 'ready made' equivalent?

[arfur mo]

I have to put together a mobile CCTV kit consisting of 12v dvr, a camera with 50mm lens, battery and charger etc. It will be sited in a vehicle to watch another vehicle over a weekend. I have sourced everything I need and need to order this week. I was just wondering if anybody had come across a 'ready made' equivalent?

Maplins and Henrys Audio among others offer a 12 volt DVR, a camera with you spec can be got from multiple sources including Ebay, your main problem is how long will the battery your using last if not charged?

if this is a longish term or multiple use project, i'd concider a seperate heavy duty caravan type battery just for the CCTv and a split charger (any camping outlet or Halfords) from the cars electrics to keep it topped up.

regs

alan

[Chorlton]

try searching "vehicle cctv" because this has been asked & answered a few times before.

the last topic was in ralation to installation on plant equipment IIRC

[kensplace]

Not seen a fully ready made unit (ie the whole lot in one kit) but have been using a mobile dvr from (2nd hand off ebay) (looks the same as a mobile drv V6N, if you google that you should see plenty of them from different suppliers.)

Small, fits onto a docking station, works of 12v (fairly good range so fine to fit straight onto vehicles electrics) can be turned on/off via ignition, or just wire a switch up to 12v if you dont want the engine running. 4 camera inputs, 4 audio inputs, hard drive built in, some models have inbuilt gps, or inbuilt wifi. Compact flash, ethernet port, vga outputs, composite outputs, sensor inputs, the thing is loaded with connections....

Very robust looking, small and quiet, not used them much in anger yet, but they seem good units at first looks.

They have a 12v output for powering cams, so you can wire it straight up to the vehicles electric, or your own battery, set it to record all the time, on a schedule, or on motion only, or when a sensor is triggered (so you could use PIR sensors, door sensors, or whatever). As it has a power output, its easy to hang a 12v cam of the back of it...

[daubs8]

Thanks for the info guys. I have sourced a battery which can give me approx 72 hours recording and charged with a golf trolley charger. I have used an 'avermedia' mobile dvr previously which will suffice. I was mainly wondering if a kit was available because the client wants it in a suitcase for transferring. I was just dreading cutting shapes out of sponge!

[Doktor Jon]

Just as a quick suggestion, if necessary, use more than one battery, or even two pairs of smaller batteries ( I always used to prefer using a pair or three of the 12v 24Ah for convenience, and reducing any risk of hernias on longer term projects. )

If you connect up two sets of power supply leads (+ve left longer than -ve to help prevent the risk of any accidental short circuits ... and insulated when not connected), one pair can be fitted to the battery in use, and the second set used to connect the replacement set, before you remove the first depleted set.

That way the system operation is not interrupted when changing over batteries. Personally I always used to use polarised push fit connectors, so changing batteries was very straightforward, and in practice there was no risk of any accidental short circuits as the terminal pins are insulted in the connector housing; also you can't accidentally reverse the polarity, which can be fairly damaging for most cameras.

Depending on whether you want to get hyper cautious, an in line fuse can be fitted to protect the power line for the equipment, and if you really want to go over the top, a nice fat diode for secondary polarity protection, and a decent electrolytic capacitor if there's any risk of intereference from any moving parts (e.g. DVR fans).

Anybody would think I've done this before ....

[Securitycomp]

The last battery i used was a Sure24 system, the batteries lasted for a week and were supplied in a case