Comments on: How to build an arctic web cam

By: barry99705

barry99705 — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:43:44 +0000

Hey adam, I’ll agree the linksys cameras suck balls too. Their other stuff is pretty good though. Yea, it’s colder in the antarctic than the arctic, but we had a greater temperature swing than there. -40F or colder in the winter to +90F or a bit warmer in the summers. the camera took both in stride. for an off the shelf cheap ass camera, some black pvc pipe and a piece of plexi it did better than i though it was going to.

By: samuel

samuel — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:43:03 +0000

yeah but in antarctica your looking more at 60 oC celcius

By: adam

adam — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:38:40 +0000

d-stink? only thing needing “stink” in it is stinksys.

By: barry99705

barry99705 — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:41:16 +0000

I had one of those d-stink web cams that look like half a soda can mounted on my roof for a couple years. Built an enclosure out 6″ pvc pipe. Built a poe adapter for it, and mounted it to the tv antenna on the roof. Ran year round, even at -40F in the winter. No heater needed. Didn’t have a lick of trouble with it until I rearranged my network rack and plugged in the wrong power injector to it. Smoked the camera, but the little web server in it kept working. Really bummed me out.