Specifications

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About the Camera
Congratulations on your purchase of this ADS-180 from Swann! You’ve chosen a
great little self contained, easy to install entry-level CCTV camera. This manual will
walk you through positioning, installing, connecting and using your camera, and
offer some tips to help you get the most out of your security monitoring system.
What will it see?
The ADS-180 has a 6mm, 37° lens built-in which allows it to focus its attention
onto one specifi c area. What does this mean for you when placing it?
• The camera will focus on the one particular area in
front of the lens, but won’t see much happening to the
sides of it. You’ll need to aim the camera specifi cally at
what you want to see.
• Objects and people will look like they are slightly closer
to the camera than they really are. You’ll be able to
monitor a space which is as long (or longer) than it is
wide.
The ADS-180 is great for monitoring long, narrow spaces
such as hallways or corridors. It’s also great for monitoring a
specifi c space, such as a doorway, smaller room or staircase.
It’s best mounted high-up in a corner looking down into the space being
monitored, so that it can look over intervening obstacles. Also, the higher the
camera is mounted, the harder it’ll be for an intruder to access the camera or
interfere with it.
Rules is Rules
Regardless of all the tweaking of the lens and image processing you do, there are
a few immutable things that are true for all cameras, CCTV or otherwise.
• The closer the camera is to what you want to see, the more detail
you’re going to get. Really, there’s no substitute for proximity.
• Areas with varied lighting conditions are hard to view completely,
with any camera. If the bright bits are exposed correctly, then the shadows
will “black out”. If the shadowy areas are exposed correctly, then the bright
bits will overexpose and “white out”. Aiming the camera at an evenly lit
area will always give the best results.
• That “image enhancement” stuff that they do on CSI or 24 is all lies. You
can’t zoom in indefi nitely on a video image. Licence plates are only readable
from a few meters (a dozen or so feet) away. If someone’s head is represented
by three pixels, that’s it. Sorry. This is technology, not magic. This is a great
entry-level CCTV camera, but it’s still an entry-level CCTV camera - it can’t see
much better than you can! Still, it does make for good television.
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Technical Specifications
Technical Specifi cations
Video
Image Sensor 1/4” CMOS
Video Quality 400 TV Lines
Effective Pixels NTSC: 656 x 492
Min. Illumination 0 Lux (IR on)
White Balance Automatic
Electronic Shutter NTSC: 1/60 ~ 1/15 000
PAL: 1/50 ~ 1/15 000
Gain Control Automatic
Backlight Comp. Yes
Wide Dynamic Range No
Lens 6mm
Viewing Angle 37°
Night Vision
Range Up to 10m (33ft)
IR Cut Filter No
Number of IR LEDs 30
Infrared Wavelength 940nm
IR LED Life (Average) 10, 000 hours
General
Operating Power DC 12V
Operating Temp. -10°C ~ 50°C (14°F ~ 122°F)
Casing Aluminium
Dimensions (Camera) 2.5” x 2.8” x 2.5”
65mm x 70mm x 65mm
Dimensions (Stand) 2.8” x 2.3” x 2.3”
72mm x 60mm x 60mm
Weight 165g / 0.4lbs (approx)