What is the best mini camera for your money that you could mount on a flat car or similiar, for On board videos. Keep in mind it’s for HO scale. Nothing guranteed just thought it might be kinda cool too see videos of my empire on a realistic view.
I’m going to bump this up. I’ve been looking at video camera’s as well for my train club and would like some opinions on what is good and what is bad.
There are some on Ebay…
All I can offer are some questions…
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Black and White or Color?
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Sound or No Sound?
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How small?
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Quality of the picture.
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Broadcast range?
Just some food for thought.
David B
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Its got to be colour
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Not sure about sound, what do you suggest?
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Its got to fit inside a loco, we don’t want it mounted outside of the loco.
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We would like the quality to be good, if its a little distorted then why bother. It will be displayed on a 20" TV. What about LCD monitors? Can it be displayed on them?
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Our travelling layout is 12’ by 18’ so the range should be at least 18’.
I have one of these
http://www.wirelessmicrocolorcam.com/estore/product_info.php?products_id=41
Great little camera !
Takes about 2 hours to charge and will run about 50 min on one charge
the broadcast range will vary depending on the number of obstacles
About 200 ft max
it will transmit while going thru tunnels
And yes it has sound
Will it fit inside a loco?
No i push it around the layout on a flat car in front of the Loco
It does have an amazing depth of field
I also got mine from SJT Enterprises,
http://www.wirelessmicrocolorcam.com/estore/index.php
The camera comes with a 9-volt battery. I didn’t want to mess with changing batteries, so I got the DCC-compatable power supply along with it. I mounted this in a Proto 1K R-17 subway car. This is one of the unpowered cars. Here’s the car, camera unit and power supply board as they came originally. (Click on the pictures for a bigger view.)
No, this stuff didn’t all fit. The jack at the end of the black wire coming off the camera takes another plug, and that connects up to the 9-volt connectors on the power supply. I couldn’t fit all that connecting hardware, so I swapped e-mails with Jerry at SJT, and for $15 (really good deal) he rewired it to my specifications, including shipping it back. Note that there’s a small circuit board embedded in the jack, so it’s more than just snipping wires and re-soldering some connections. This is what came back about a week later:
The capacitor has been moved off-board, too. I installed the board inside the gray box in the center of the car. (That’s where the motor is in the powered version.)
This is the nose-on view of the car. The camera is in the center porthole. The large gaping holes at the bottom are for the LEDs, which haven’t been installed yet. I removed the original silly incandescents and put in small LEDs to get more lighting in the tunnels.
I installed small slide switches on the bottom of the car to independently control the lights and the camera power.&nbs
Hey all i would like to know my self, i do N-scale so size is even more critical, would not mind mounting it to a flat car, so any thoughts, i see one listed in the Micro-Mark catalog, any body use one of those before?, thanks.