Price : $27.25
Product Description
Tiny and wireless, this inconspicuous camera offers effective surveillance protection . It has an operative range of 150 feet, providing full motion, real-time, color video with no delay. It is easily concealed and the built-in microphone provides great sound quality that's perfect for presentations or interviews.
Client Critiques
I picked this unit right after significantly research, for a house-made robot (class project). Here's the scoop:
For the price, it really is great!
Efficiency: Our perfect outcomes, with a fresh battery, camera unit transmitted ~200' of open parking lot AND ~75' of industrial making w/ lots of flouro/wifi and so on. with minimal interference. In spite of this, signal strength fell off with batt pwr. Regrettably, we employed a assortment of 9Vs at numerous stages of use or I'd have a lifespan for you. Very best guesstimate is minimum 30 minutes full strength from fresh batt.
We also played about with it indoors, with the AC adapters on each units.
Either way, you'll occasionally have to tweak the RX tuner for top reception if the camera is mobile, or the environment modifications (body blocking the antenna of the Tx etc.) See that small knob by the Rx unit's antenna? That is the tuning knob.
How does it function?
Camera unit powered by AC adapter, or 9V battery (brief life as expected) sends audio video to receiver unit.
Receiver unit-RCA cables-Tv/VCR/whatever (I implemented an old portable Tv/VCR combo from a junk sale). No "Wifi" here.
If this thing had night-vision AND digital tuning it'd have 6 out of 5 stars. Speaking of IR, this camera will detect IR like most digi-cameras. The only test I managed to do ahead of it's demise was to point a Tv remote at it in a sealed darkroom, and it did register the IR LED.
The TX unit was smoke-checked by an idiot miswiring an improvised AC adapter right after we lost the very first 1, but I'm definitely getting another.
I bought this setup for birding. Installation was a breeze. A single bit of confusion was the manual which stated the power adapters for the camera and transmitter should not be interchanged and could harm the equipment if hooked up wrong in spite of this, the adapters had been identical. I installed every thing and had it working in much less than ten minutes. There is some interference as other individuals have pointed out, i.e., occasional lines and jitters, but all in all a rather superior color picture for the cost. I do not see a issue with low light conditions - I have a robin who built a nest beneath my deck, and was hoping to watch the babies hatch. These days they did inside half an hour of my installation of the camera. The camera is tucked up underneath the joists and there is no direct sunlight, yet the picture is clear and bright. This could possibly not hold true for dusk, but for use in normal daylight, I'd hugely suggest this process if you're on a tight spending budget. I couldn't ask for much more considering price/overall performance ratio.
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