The True Details And Specifics on X-10 Or Other Wireless Frequency Surveillance Cameras.  Reading This Will Save You Time, Money And Aggravation. 

Shown below are several pictures of so-called hidden surveillance cameras you’ll find while searching the web. At a quick glance for a lot of folks they look like a great option. Allow us to give you an in depth explanation of how they work. First of all many sites conveniently just show a picture of their “hidden wireless” camera. Left out in the ad is the transmitter you’ll need with an obvious antenna that needs to be placed in an open unobstructed area to send wireless radio frequency signals from the camera to a receiver.  This receiver also with an obvious antenna needs to be hard wired to a VCR or to get best results to a Digital Video Recorder. Without being connected to a VCR or a DVR you will not have any recorded images at all. 

Naturally for most folks searching for a camera, they see this ad with just this picture of a “hidden camera” and say “this sounds great, No wires, just this camera? Only 59 bux? Wow! Let me buy this right now!”  …..REALITY: It arrives and you open the box and hello “what are these other things with these antennas sticking out”   Now for your installation:  For starters IF you don’t have a DVR, a halfway decent one starts at $200.00. More serious reality: Although they will advertise these cameras sending images hundreds of feet what they don’t tell you is the ideal reception requires a direct straight path with no obstacles in the way. Oh, you have walls in your house? That’s why you have fuzzy or distorted images, if any at all. Nor will they mention all the interference from nearly every electronic household device also using wireless radio frequency signals, I.e., cordless telephones, microwave ovens, car alarms, garage door openers as well as every remote control used for Tv’s and even kids toys. In many cases all it takes to interrupt the transmission is someone using a cellular phone within 300 feet of your home.  Here is a test.  Call up any surveillance company and tell them you are interested in installing wireless security cameras at your home or business. Their answer will be in somewhat different variations of “we don’t install them because they are not reliable”. Certainly not having to run “hard wiring” would save consumers and businesses hundreds if not thousands of dollars. Of all the thousands of surveillance cameras installed in the Wal-Marts, Sears, Home Depot’s or any huge chain there is NOT one wireless camera.

Should you purchase one of these X-10 or other wireless cameras this will be your scenario; 

You first determine the area ideal for their “hidden camera”. This of course is non negotiable as naturally you need to place the camera where it will “see” the subject.  The transmitter with the antenna sticking up can not be obstructed or hidden. It needs to be in plain view of the receiver (this picks up the video frequency transmission) these two devices can NOT  be blocked by walls or furniture or you’ll have just fuzzy images if any at all.  But before you can locate the receiver unit you have to make sure it’s near an outlet because this NEEDS power.  It has a transformer that needs to be plugged in.  (Some of these wireless cameras use batteries that will last only a few hours and this is a fact!)  The next step is the VCR or DVR needs to be directly wired to the receiver.  This means you either run a long wire to wherever your VCR or DVR is located. (Probably on top of your TV in another room) or move it to the room where the receiver needs to be located to receive any possible signals. So now you move your TV too?

Here is exactly how these “hidden” cameras ideally work.  In a large room with the transmitter and receiver in a direct visual path, both close enough to an electrical outlet and the VCR or DVR placed right next to it.  Doesn’t seem like its “hidden” now does it?  There goes your well thought out plans to have a secret camera.  They don’t work and all the unsuspecting folks that buy them find this out!  Now you don’t have to be one of them.

Below are some pictures of typical “hidden” wireless cameras being sold on the internet by these “hucksters”.

 Bill Mullen/Owner/www.SecuritySystems.com

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AIR FRESHENER Color
•HC-ARWCK-GC Wireless Camera $438.00

1.Connect the 2.4 GHz receiver video output to the monitor or VCR input using the RCA-RCA cable.

2. You may need to set your VCR to video line input, see note below. Turn on the 2.4 GHz receiver.

3. Turn on the camera / transmitter by connecting the male plug from the battery pack to the female plug from the transmitter. This is located inside the Air Freshener. A 12vdc power supply can also be connected to the female plug instead of the battery pack.

4. If the signal is not clear, move the 2.4 GHz receiver. The receiver has an “Arrow” on it. Point the receiver in the direction of the transmitter. For best performance the receiver should be facing the Air Freshener.

Isn’t this is a “GREAT” example of a “COVERT” camera?

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