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14 Mar, 2018
Promises much but has a few problems
On the face of it, it's a nice scope but the bargain price is for a reason:
It has nice clear optics and it nitrogen purged. The reticle is beautifully clear although it can still be difficult to get it and the target sharply focused - this is very common in scopes without an object lens adjustment - small matter. The finish feels very nice and it has a weighty quality feel but not overly heavy. The 56mm objective lens brings in a lot of light but beware, you might need to change the scope mounts as there isn't enough height on a normal set going from 40mm - yours might be different.
Now the downsides:
First the view through the scope is really sensitive - an inch too near or far introduces really bad parallax. The illuminated reticle is nice but see above; if you don't get the view just right, the illuminating LEDs are clearly visible. Both these problems are really hard to fix at night - you can't see much in the gloom and you can't see the big black wobbly ring that says you've got it wrong.
The adjustment turrets. These are nicely covered with good fitting covers but the adjustments are quite tight and don't have thumb screws but rather a raised rectangle across the diameter with two holes in - suggesting it really likes a tool to adjust them. They can be adjusted by hand but they are stiff and it gets quite fiddly and painful to turn them. The stiffness is a problem because it masks the end stop - and my vertical adjustment fell out because I turned it to far (couldn't tell) and the thread rounded out the thin casting. Junk I am afraid.
Then we come to support... I have a buggered scope so i thought I would contact NiteHawk to check my options... forget it - their website has a cybersquatter and a load of sponsored ad's - they've gone.
Shame
22 Mar, 2018
Just... works!
As far as chargers go, there are cheaper ones about. But... this is a serious charger that will get the job done. It is solidly built with an internal PSU - so it isn't wobbling about on the wall with its own weight dragging it out of the socket. It has four bays which will charge just about any cylindrical cell you have and gives a lovely representation of the state of each.
Two things i would like to see... a discharger and a 9V adaptor. but for what i bought it for it is perfect. Very nice unit
09 May, 2018
Don't muck about with cheap systems. Get the system that will do what you want first time.
2 of 2 found this helpful Swann is a dependable name and their products show why. They are not the cheapest but you certainly don't feel like the Swann kit is cheap.
The manuals are in clever sequence (read this fist, second and last) and all in English - not translated or worse completely foreign.
The cameras are well-built and feel solid in the hand. They are "intelligent" in that they automatically switch over between daytime and nighttime IR automatically (there is a click inside and the only signals are power and video, so no command from the master unit). They are easy to mount, but for brick-wall-mounting throw away the supplied the screws & wall-plugs and use inch-long size 6 (inch 6's - not 6 inch!) screws and red plugs, any DIY shop will know what these are and I bet you already have some in your shed. The cabling couldn't be easier - just check you have the cable (from the camera pig-tail to the master unit) the right way round before you feed it all the way through! One end has a power socket, the other a power plug - if you get it the wrong way round, you will be trying to plug a socket in a socket on the camera. I would have liked to see these ambidextrous and it wouldn't have been that hard to do really. Other than that, the ladder work and cabling were the hardest thing about this... plugged it in, set it up (easy) and set the recording schedule (easy too) and that is it.The master unit immediately recognizes any cameras and starts using them. Daytime view is a crystal clear colour 1080p, nighttime is a crystal clear black and white 1080p... couldn't ask for more. Make sure you get the camera positioned to limit the sun shining directly on its face or the picture will be quite dark with a single bright spot - don't get narked about this - all cameras suffer from over-exposure problems if you point them at a bright light. Expanding to more cameras is a simple task of plugging them in and setting your recording schedule - if you use the same for everything, really easily you can just go to CH1 and copy it to all.
The Controller needs a wired network connection - i.e. it doesn't do WiFi (one of the "LAN" sockets on the back of your router). You'll need a VGA monitor or HDMI TV to do the initial set up and you can leave it attached like that afterwards if you want. For more convenience, it has a built in web server so you can use Internet Explorer (only, at the moment - small niggle) to watch the cameras and get to nearly all of the controls without going near the master unit. I use mine like this all the time now and unplugged the monitor after the first round of setup and familiarization. It's the only thing I use IE for so I set my IE homepage to the camera view... very nice, start IE, enter my password and up pop my cameras.
Downloaded the app to my phone (Android) and it all just works. Very happy.
One word of warning, don't turn the power on the main unit until you are sat in front of the monitor waiting to set it up - it will prompt for an admin password at power on and if you miss this you'll be looking for the master password which is the MAC address. If you don't know how to retrieve this from your router you will be on the phone to the help-desk and that can take a while... do it in the right order and you won't have any problems.
I spent a long time before making the jump, now I wonder why I hesitated.