I have a baby monitor from Sears. The camaera has the LEDs around the CCD and I can see the baby perfect in the dark. The set costs about $100 and it is 2.4ghz.
--- Sander Pool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I suppose you could use one of those sub $100 > security cams. Those typically > have IR LEDs right next to the lens to illuminate in > the dark. They are > certainly sensitive to IR. > > I caught some raccoons prying open the cat door with > one of those. A closer > examination on how they opened the supposedly locked > door helped me outsmart > the buggers :-) > > Anyway, get a wired version (the 2.4 GHz ones > generally suck) and be amazed > with the image quality. I record it 640x480 in Divx > format right onto my > hard drive. My camera was a $50 special at Fry's. > > Sander > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Henry Spencer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Note that *color* cameras have color filters right > on the CCD, and those > > will block a lot of the IR, so you want a B&W > camera for this. > > > > Sufficiently intense IR emissions can even get > through the filters. CCD > > cameras reportedly can see aircraft IR jammers > (used to confuse the homing > > heads of heat-seeking missiles) as flashing > lights... and that's not even > > near IR, or at least there's not much near IR in > it. (But the power > output > > is very high.) > > _______________________________________________ > ERPS-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.erps.org/mailman/listinfo/erps-list __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree _______________________________________________ ERPS-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.erps.org/mailman/listinfo/erps-list
