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Porch Surveillance

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I have a residential property that requires driveway and porch CCTV coverage!

At night the driveway is very dark so I'm left with little alternative but to use IR - Will use 1/3" 480line IR cams which will be mounted under the eves of 2 storey house.

Also i need to have porch covered so a 3.6mm dome style will be fine as theres a PIR/light closeby - my problem is that the customer does not want any cable showing........The walls are cavity and the DVR is in the loft....what solution would you offer???

The house is a new style redrow ,no more than 5yrs old....

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Its possible to pass the cable down the cavity, but I've found that in many new build properties the insulation is tightly packed in so impossible to get through.

Best thing I've ever purchased though for this sort of job is a set of rods from www.super-rod.co.uk I've got the mega set. If you attach the cable to the "chain", then pass this through a hole into the cavity, Its possible to pass the rods down through the cavity via the loft and use the magnet attachment to attract the chain, works a treat!

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Its possible to pass the cable down the cavity, but I've found that in many new build properties the insulation is tightly packed in so impossible to get through.

Best thing I've ever purchased though for this sort of job is a set of rods from www.super-rod.co.uk I've got the mega set. If you attach the cable to the "chain", then pass this through a hole into the cavity, Its possible to pass the rods down through the cavity via the loft and use the magnet attachment to attract the chain, works a treat!

Thats a real snazzy piece of kit.......

So if I drilled a 10mm hole above porch, would I then be able to feed cable up thro to loft....Are they really that flexible?? (I mean going thro wall and then have to bend thro a very sharp 90degs)...

Likewise if I went via loft and down, is the magnet strong enough to attract and then pull rod thro 90degs and out of 10mm hole.....

Sounds really A1 :rolleyes:

Just been told you can buy offa Ebay....

Drill the hole up from the camera at a steep angle so the rods only need to bend slightly.

The opinions I express are mine and are usually correct!

(Except when I'm wrong)(which I'm not)

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Drill the hole up from the camera at a steep angle so the rods only need to bend slightly.

common Sense is a wonderful thing....wish I had some :yes:

Its possible to pass the cable down the cavity, but I've found that in many new build properties the insulation is tightly packed in so impossible to get through.

you can't run cables in the external wall cavity.......

you can't run cables in the external wall cavity.......

i never do that :whistle:

Eucam Security Systems

0845 4630 746

www.eucam.co.uk

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i never do that :whistle:

Now i'm lost......? so how can I get round issue of feeding cables?

Maybe I'm having a sense of humour failure....Just taking this serious right now B)

dont see the problem myslef its between two bircks and also its 12 v dc or 24v ac max nOT 240v so wheres the problem

regs colin

it is against the regs, but everone does it

Eucam Security Systems

0845 4630 746

www.eucam.co.uk

i never do that :whistle:

Me neither, I always abide to BS7671 / NHBC building requirements. :whistle:

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