Back Up System Help

[Jeff Miller]

As an addendum, probably the lowest risk experiment (lowest, not
without risk) would be to ground that pin and see if the image
reverses.

- Jeff Miller
still in Holland, MI


--- In WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com, "Jeff Miller"
wrote:
>
> LOL
> I think that the tech support person knows nothing.
>
> My take from the manual pages is that the lettering on the camera
was
> poorly translated from Korean or Chinese, and says "Magnetic"
> and "Non-Magnetic" instead of "Mirrored" and "Non-Mirrored" so the
> manual is trying to explain the correct switch positions. In a CRT
> (not LCD) the horizontal and vertical deflection is magnetic,
either
> mirrored or normal, might be where the Chinese got confused, I've
> seen lots of botched manual translations.
>
> It appears that the monitor does the image-reverse, and is signaled
> by the switch on the camera and utilizes an extra wire in the DIN
> cable.
>
> The signal is probably GND or +5v, could also be +12v / GND, but
> without knowing which it is difficult to reverse the image
manually.
> Perhaps another tech support person will know more.
>
> Again, the image in an LCD monitor can't be reversed magnetically,
> they are unaffected by reasonable amounts of magnetic energy
(unlike
> CRTs), it will have to be reversed by a built-in software switch to
> do the pixel-mapping backwards (which it apparently has if you can
> figure out what the signal voltage needs to be).
>
> - Jeff Miller
> in Holland, MI
>
>
> --- In WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com, Dan Leftwich

> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks for the response Jeff.
> >
> > I gave the tech guy from Safety Vision a call late today to
further
> have
> > him explain how the Safety Vision system works. He said the
monitor
> > does the reversing of the image but works in conjunction with the
> camera
> > that reverses the polarity through the use of magnets. Don't
know
> if I
> > completely understand this but I guess it sounds plausible. He
said
> > that you just need to make sure that you have a camera that does
> this.
> > He said there were cameras on the market that do this other than
> Safety
> > Vision. I don't think I have ever come across one though.
> >
> > Just for interest look at the top of pg. 2 at HYPERLINK
> > "http://www.safetyvision.com/attachments/...20CKITQIG-
> 001_3.pdf
> > "http://www.safetyvision.com/attachments/...20CKITQIG-
> 001_3.pdf
> >
> > I'm going to have the guy who got me the Honeywell camera stop by
> to see
> > what he thinks. He is an installer for home and commercial
alarms.
> > Hopefully he will be able to address the problem.
> >
> > The old monitor was working when I took it out. I used some of
the
> > brackets for the new system that held the CRT monitor together.
I
> might
> > need the monitor but if I do not I will drop you a line. I have
the
> > rear b/w camera too.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Dan Leftwich
> > 87 35FC Somers NY
> >
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