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United Digital Technologies KCM-5511 manual

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    K CM -551 1 2M Outdoor Box w ith D/N, IR, Ad v anced WDR, 22x Zoom lens Hardware User ’ s Manual (DC 12V / PoE) V er . 2013/07/02[...]

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    w w w . a c ti . c o m KCM -551 1 Hard ware Manual 2 T able of Contents Precautions 3 Safety Instructions ........................................................................... 4 Introduction 6 Package Contents ............................................................................. 6 Physical Description .................................[...]

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    w w w .a c ti . c o m KCM -551 1 Hard ware Manual 3 Precautions Read these instructio ns Y o u should read all the safety and op erating instructions before usi ng this product. Heed all warnings Y o u must adhere to all the warnings on the product and in the instruction manual. Failure to follow the safet y instruction given may directly endanger [...]

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    w w w .a c ti . c o m KCM -551 1 Hard ware Manual 4 Safety Instructions Don’t use the pow er supply with other vo ltages This device is lik ely to be dam aged or damage other equipm ents / personnel, if you use a power suppl y with different voltage than the one included with this device. All warrant y of this product will be voided in the situat[...]

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    w w w .a c ti . c o m KCM -551 1 Hard ware Manual 5 extensive work by a qualified techn ician to restore the video prod uct to its normal operation. Safety Check Upon completion of any service or repairs to t hi s video product, ask the service technician to perform safet y check s to determine if the video product is in proper oper ating condition[...]

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    w w w .a c ti . c o m KCM -551 1 Hard ware Manual 6 In troduction Package Contents KCM-551 1 QIG T erminal Blocks for Power , DI/O and Serial Port Warranty Card[...]

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    w w w .a c ti . c o m KCM -551 1 Hard ware Manual 7 Physical Description 1) Micro SDHC Card Slot Insert your Micro SD HC card here for local r ecording on camera . 2) Power LED This LED light will ind icate current camera status. 3) Audio Input / Output The IP device supports audio inp ut and output with earphone jac k 4) Power Input If you use Pow[...]

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    w w w .a c ti . c o m KCM -551 1 Hard ware Manual 8 5) Serial Port This port connects t o serial devices via RS-4 85 or RS- 422 protocols. Use the supplied ser i al port terminal block to connect the wires from the ca mera to the ser ial device. See Serial Port Con nection on page 15 f or connection details. 6) Reset Button Step 1: Switch off IP de[...]

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    w w w .a c ti . c o m KCM -551 1 Hard ware Manual 9 • 2 Digital I nput s - An alarm input for connecti ng devices that can toggle bet w een an open and closed circuit, for ex ample: PIRs, door/window con tacts, glass break detectors, etc. The device will detect the ch ange in digital input and transm it the signal to video surveillance servers. T[...]

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    w w w .a c ti . c o m KCM -551 1 Hard ware Manual 10 Preparing for Installation Remove the back cover by unscrewing the four attach ments. How to Do the W aterproof Installation The following installati on procedure mak es the ca mera be water-resistan t even for the situations where the cam era can easily be floode d by pouring rain. The important[...]

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    w w w .a c ti . c o m KCM -551 1 Hard ware Manual 11 3. Two pieces from the conduit gland set will be attached to flex conduit f irst. 4. The third piece goes through the back side cover of the cam era. 5. The fourth piece (l ocking nut) is used to lock the gland firm ly from the i nside of the back side cover. 6. Pull the network cable through the[...]

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    w w w .a c ti . c o m KCM -551 1 Hard ware Manual 12 7. Connect the flex con duit to the back side cover of the cam era. 8. Tighten the dom ed sealing nut. 9. Plug the network cable into the camera’s RJ -45 connector before c losing the back side of the cam era. If y ou are not us i ng PoE and need an additional po wer cord then please connect it[...]

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    w w w .a c ti . c o m KCM -551 1 Hard ware Manual 13 11. Finally, the b ox camera with properl y mounted flex conduit as well as with proper outdoor bracket wou ld look like this.[...]

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    w w w .a c ti . c o m KCM -551 1 Hard ware Manual 14 Basic Connections Follow the procedures b elow to connect the IP device to the respecti ve apparatuses. If you have a PoE(Pow er over Ethernet) suppo rted switch or injector: 1) Connect your IP Box Cam e ra to the S w itch / Injector by CA T 5 or CA T6 c abl es with RJ 45 connector . 2) Connect y[...]

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    w w w .a c ti . c o m KCM -551 1 Hard ware Manual 15 Serial Port Connection The zoom cam era can be connected to a Pan-Tilt (PT) Scanner (Pan-Tilt Head) using the serial port connector . This allows the zoom ca m era to do pan and t il t using th e Pelco - D protocol. Most PT scanners ac cept Pelco- D and P el co- P protocol comm ands via RS-485 or[...]

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    w w w .a c ti . c o m KCM -551 1 Hard ware Manual 16 For more inf or m ati on on connecting PT scanners, p l eas e refer to the Kno w ledge Base art icle: Pan and T ilt Scanner for ACT i Zoom Cam eras (http://www .acti.com/support/Knowle dgeBase/outside/detail.asp?KB_ID =KB201 101200 01) available on the webs i te.[...]

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    w w w .a c ti . c o m KCM -551 1 Hard ware Manual 17 Accessing Camera Configure the IP A ddress In order to be able to communicate w ith the camera from y our PC, both the camera and the PC have to be within the same network segment. In m ost cases, it m eans that the y both sh ould have very sim ilar IP addres ses, where onl y the last num ber of [...]

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    w w w .a c ti . c o m KCM -551 1 Hard ware Manual 18 bar of the browser . If y ou work with our cameras regularly , then the re i s even a better way to discover the cameras in the network – by using IP Utility . The IP Utility i s a light software tool that can not only disco ver the cam eras, but a lso list lots of va luable inform ation, such [...]

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    w w w .a c ti . c o m KCM -551 1 Hard ware Manual 19 Use the default I P address of the camera If there is no DHCP server i n the given network, the us er may have to m anually assign the IP addresses to both the PC and the cam era to make sure they are in the sam e network segment. W h en the camera is plugg ed into the network and it does not det[...]

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    w w w .a c ti . c o m KCM -551 1 Hard ware Manual 20 Manually adjust the I P addresses of multipl e cameras If there are m ore than one camera to be use d in the sam e local area network and there is no DHCP s erver t o assign un ique I P addresses to each of them, all of the cam eras would the n have the i nitia l I P address of 192.168.0.100 , wh[...]

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    w w w .a c ti . c o m KCM -551 1 Hard ware Manual 21 A ccess the C am era Now that the camera and the PC both have their unique IP addresses and are under the same network segm ent, you can use M icrosoft Internet Explorer on the PC to access the camera. Note: Only Microsof t Internet Explorer is supported by the cam era at the time of writing this[...]

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    w w w .a c ti . c o m KCM -551 1 Hard ware Manual 22 Upon successf ul connection to the cam era, the user interface called Web Configurator would appear together with the login pa ge. T he HT TP port num ber w as not added behind the I P address since the default HTTP port of the cam era is 80, which can be omitted from the address for conveni ence[...]