Gardman Nestbox With Color CCTV Camera - Manual

NESTBOX WITH COLOUR CCTV CAMERA
Includes a 12v DC power adapter, a SCART adapter and
a 20m cable to allow you to watch and hear garden birds
on your TV as they nest and raise a family.
This system is designed to show the nest box pictures on
a TV set or video monitor equipped with AV IN. To connect
this system to a computer, you will need a video capture
device and suitable software.
Connecting up your BTO nest box camera kit
Open the roof by turning the catch on the back left hand side
of the nest box, just above the roof. This is what you should
see when the long cable is installed and the front cover on
the white trunking (down the right outside wall of the nest
box) is removed.
The camera is a colour CMOS CCTV camera. It has six invisible
infra-red LEDs on the front of its case to enable it to see
clearly in pitch darkness, so you can watch day and night
without disturbing the birds. The camera is mounted
on the back panel by means of a stainless steel bolt.
If you ever need to remove the camera, simply unscrew
the bolt and lift the camera out. Please note that it has
a little black lens cover over front of the lens to protect it.
This black cover should be removed before use –
it simply pushes on and pulls off.
There is a wire with three connectors hanging out of the
camera. The yellow connector carries the nest box picture
(video) back to your TV, the white connector carries the nest
box sound (audio) back to your TV and the red connector
carries the low voltage power (12v DC) to the camera.
The three little wires from the camera go out through a slot
in the top of the right side wall so that the three connectors
hang down inside the white trunking on the right outside of
the nest box. The trunking has a cover that clips off and on
– if the cover ever becomes too loose, squeeze the walls of
the trunking outwards to improve its grip on the cover.
The kit also includes a long 20m cable, with three
connectors on each end. The yellow and white connectors
are the same on both ends, but the red connectors are
different – one end is a red plug (the TV end)
and the other end is a red socket (the nest
box camera end). This enables the
picture, sound and power to be
carried in one cable.
To connect the long cable to the
camera, open the trunking on the right
outside of the nest box and simply
connect the ‘long cable’ connectors
to the camera cable connectors –
yellow to yellow, white to white and
red to red. Don’t forget – the red power
connectors on the long cable are
different at each end, so if one red
end doesn’t fit, the other red end will.
Indoors, at the TV end of the cable, you can plug the yellow
and white connectors into their corresponding yellow and
white AV sockets on your TV if it has them (little round
sockets, usually on the front of the TV). Alternatively, you
can plug the yellow and white connectors on the long cable
into the SCART adapter provided, and then plug the SCART
adapter into the SCART socket on your TV (as shown in the
diagram above).
Now connect the power. Make
sure the switch is turned off at a
wall socket, then plug in the 12v
DC power adapter. Plug the little
black plug on the end of the power
adapter into the red socket on the
end of the long cable.
When you turn on the wall socket,
you should get a picture of the
inside of the nest box on your TV’s
AV channel. If not, switch off the
wall socket, make sure it is all
connected up properly, the TV is on
and the lens cap has been taken off
the camera, then turn it on again.
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