My staging is hidden under these hills along the left wall. Trains go behind and then under brown hill at the far end, then into the gray rock banks, to exit at this of the room.
Each of the 3 staging tracks hidden therin holds 2 trains, parked end to end. I need a camera and monitor to see the center of the area, where the trains pull up close to each other, so as not to couple. It’s tight in there, and all I need is to see are the cabeese of the leading train on the track, and the Locos on the point of the following ones.
I’m not real tech savvy. One guy suggested a bluetooth camera to use with my phone. I could do that, but would rather use a small dedicated screen if such is available, & reasonably affordable.
Does anyone have a similar setup or ideas you recommend? Dan
That’s what I’m looking for. Didn’t think about automotive baby-cam. Um, I have plenty of 12 v transformers but don’t tell my wife. Might be an excuse to get that vehicle! Thanks for the replies. Dan
My wife sets up a cheapo camera and uses a junker tablet for a screen if she needs to monitor a sick animal or litter of puppies from another room in the house.
You might put in some kind of overhead track or slide, and a ‘clothesline’ style loop to pull, so you could run the camera up and down over the length of the yard. One of the cameras with built’in illumination or ring light would inherently move the light source right along and aim it if you arrange pan or tilt…
I found the lit for the older CRT version and they were 58’ long. I suspect the answer about the new flat screen version is “adequate” as I don’t recall coming up short. It’s some sort of DIN plug on the flat screen version I have, but the recent pics suggest this connector may have changed.
If a vehicle “mirror” monitor is used, will the baby appear on the monitor as if HE was in a mirror, thus if he raises his left hand you’ll see it on the left of the screen? Or will it appear it as if you physically turned around, looking at his left hand on YOUR right side of the screen? If it’s like a mirror, then the trains in staging, coming towards the camera on tracks 1,2,3 will appear 3,2,1?
Do these cameras offer a choice of how the monitor is biased?
Edited in: I just looked at home wireless baby monitors with a small screen. The adjustable focus feature looks pretty handy, and no DC conversion needed. Hmmm…
Ummm, yes, I understand that. But you typed 58’ and what I was really asking was did you type a ’ instead of a ". This is a common typing error and I wanted to be sure.
I also experimented with some cheap automotive backup cameras, and indeed was the case, the onscreen image was reversed. I was able to correct that by using front facing cameras instead of rear facing. Most of the rear facing also had an unpleasant red/yellow/green alignment grid on the screen that could not be turned off.
