Charlotte
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I keep having people ask how to get set up to watch their mares. So ..........
What kind of survelience system do you have for foal watch?
What kind of camera? Wired? Wireless?
What are your stalls like?
How many mares can you watch with one camera?
What kind of monitor?
Can your monitor view more than one camera?
What kind of lighting do you use?
How far is your house from barn?
What do you like and not like about your set up?
Is there anything interesting or unusual about your situation or system that would be good to pass on?
I'll start this off with our set up
This is what we see on one of our monitors (the parallel sisters)
*This is a wired system from Sam's Club
*The stalls are welded bars
*We can watch 4 mares per camera
* The monitor is part of the system....12" I think
*Each monitor can view 4 cameras
*we use clamp lights with 40 to 75 wat bulbs depending on the light we need....aimed at the ceiling so as to not leave too much shadow.
*the barn is about 250 ' from the house
Our cameras are aimed at the center row of stalls and you look through those to the stalls on the east side of the barn. This system has worked wonderfully for us for 15 years however we have just recently lost 2 lines (in buried conduit) so can only use 2 cameras. We acquired a wireles system from Radio Shack to have as back up. It doesn't transmit through metal walls, but we have windows over every stall so I think it will work in a pinch.
I guess that's our system
Charlotte
p.s. I just realized....I have a family protrait in that picture...almost LOL The two closest horses are full sisters...Paradigm on the left and Buttons on the right. Across the aisle from Buttons is Lace, their dam. And Cowboy is directly behind the camera! He's their sire.
What kind of survelience system do you have for foal watch?
What kind of camera? Wired? Wireless?
What are your stalls like?
How many mares can you watch with one camera?
What kind of monitor?
Can your monitor view more than one camera?
What kind of lighting do you use?
How far is your house from barn?
What do you like and not like about your set up?
Is there anything interesting or unusual about your situation or system that would be good to pass on?
I'll start this off with our set up
This is what we see on one of our monitors (the parallel sisters)
*This is a wired system from Sam's Club
*The stalls are welded bars
*We can watch 4 mares per camera
* The monitor is part of the system....12" I think
*Each monitor can view 4 cameras
*we use clamp lights with 40 to 75 wat bulbs depending on the light we need....aimed at the ceiling so as to not leave too much shadow.
*the barn is about 250 ' from the house
Our cameras are aimed at the center row of stalls and you look through those to the stalls on the east side of the barn. This system has worked wonderfully for us for 15 years however we have just recently lost 2 lines (in buried conduit) so can only use 2 cameras. We acquired a wireles system from Radio Shack to have as back up. It doesn't transmit through metal walls, but we have windows over every stall so I think it will work in a pinch.
I guess that's our system
Charlotte
p.s. I just realized....I have a family protrait in that picture...almost LOL The two closest horses are full sisters...Paradigm on the left and Buttons on the right. Across the aisle from Buttons is Lace, their dam. And Cowboy is directly behind the camera! He's their sire.
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