[CS-FSLUG] Closed circuit TV

[Frank Bax]

Ah yes.  I'd forgotton about this "problem".  The camera will be 
operating in "monitor" mode; not "record" mode.  What you want is to 
have the camera sending a signal through the output wires even though 
the "record" button has not been depressed.  Some camera's do not work 
well in this mode.  One camera we used would not send a signal through 
the output wires unless there was a tape in the camera (even though it 
was not used).

It would be wise for you to setup an additional tv (probably in sound 
booth) that is fed from same signal that feeds your new location.  This 
device does not need sound; but should be monitored to ensure there is 
always a video signal.




Yama Ploskonka wrote:
> get a camera that stays on.
> 
> Silly as this might seem, the one time I tried this the camera would 
> turn itself off every 15 minutes, to "save battery", even though it was 
> with external power all the time...  I guess there might have been a 
> setting somewhere, but we didn't figure it.  So eventually we needed to 
> have someone by the camera that would move the tele up and down every 
> few minutes so the camera would notice some user activity...
> 
> Frank Bax wrote:
>> Robert Wohlfarth wrote:
>>> Does anyone have experience with transmitting worship services over 
>>> closed circuit TV? What type of equipment do we need? What problems 
>>> did you encounter? Any advice?
>>
>>
>>
>> Nothing fancy.  Get same cable you would use for cable-tv or antennae.
>>
>> VCR probably has this connection in and out.
>> TV often has this type of input connection.
>>
>> Feed video camera into VCR; then feed VCR to TV.
>>
>> We were feeding service to nursery in a previous building (maybe we 
>> still do).
>>
>> We used sound from sound system, not from camera; but I'm not sure how 
>> that part is done.  No problems with this system that I recall.