Re: Will IR Illuminator work with any CCD Camera?

["Robert L Bass" <robertbass1@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Unless you have a real need for obscurity, there's a much simpler (and usually less expensive) approach to covert CCTV.  Speco makes
a standard motion detector light with two flood lamps that come on for a couple of minutes any time someone walks by after dark.
Most people are so accustomed to seeing these lights that they don't give them a second thought.

What the subject won't know is that there's a camera mounted inside the motion detector.  One advantage of this approach is that
you'll get a much better, more detailed image with white (well, close to white) light than with IR.  Another advantage is that when
most people trigger those lights the first thing they do is look up directly at them.  This will give you an excellent chance at
recording the person's face.

I might be a little biased in favor of Speco since I sell it online.  However, I've used their cameras with good results on several
of my own installations.

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Regards,
Robert L Bass

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> You need to make sure the cameras do not have an IR cutoff filter.
> Being color, they most likely do. But check to be sure. If they
> don't have one, then they will work. If they do have the filter,
> you will need a LOT more IR to make it work.
>
> Brian