in-car cameras

[obr184]

Hi.

I was wondering if anyone knows where i can buy a hard-drive recording system for off road use. i looked into the stack dash but that was $10grand US.....

Anyone have anything similiar or any other ideas??

Cheers for your help

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[Brandon_Charley]

Is their anyone on here that knows how to make them? I know that it isn't too much more than a computer hard drive and a lipstick camera.

We want to put quite a few cameras in our Expo for Jason (CR Films) to get footage, but just one stack will cost more than our whole truck.

[Race8100]

PM me and i'll send you the details on the system we sell. HD based recorder that can capture 4 cameras at once.

[SuperRanger]

We are trying out the following system. It will be able to record 4 different cameras at a time. The cameras can automatically switch to infared as well. We plan to just run the DVR, a switch, and some cameras - put the LCD in the tow rig. The system we are putting together is a custom job, not one of the packages shown. Erik is the guys name and he is pretty knowledgable.

http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/showthread.php?t=428871

[stuckthrottle]

Personally, It's going to be a long while before Stuck Throttle Films starts using DVR decks. There are many people that dissagree with our mentallity but they are hard drive driven and one hard hit and youre going to corrupt the disk. Its then going to cost you an arm and a leg (if youre lucky) to recover your high speed roll over,tap, bump, etc.
But that's just us.
In the mean time, we are working on a different miniDv type deck longer recording time solution,

[Brandon_Charley]

Theres got to be a way around that. Like modifying the cases or whatever like PCI does to the GPS, or better quality hard drives like the ones in the new laptops that are supposed to take a drop and keep on ticking.

[Curtis Guise]

Tape is still the only reliable solution for awhile.

[Race8100]

The system we use is out of cop cars (think of the footage you've seen from 'Cops'). So, it can take a pretty good hit. The system itself is shock mounted, plus the drive is double shock mounted. Plus, the OS itself is actually on a ROM chip and not on the drive. Only the data.

[stuckthrottle]

The system we use is out of cop cars (think of the footage you've seen from 'Cops'). So, it can take a pretty good hit.

Can we realistically compare ANY 'real world' application to the stuff deser racers put equipment through?
Im sure the HardDrive system you guys use works 99.99% of the time, but all it takes is that one hit (or system crash, short, etc).

[Race8100]

Yes, true. Even in a very hard hit, though, its not going to crash the OS. This runs linux and can suffer through HD errors much better than Windows. So, even if the drive gets corrupt sectors, etc, the worst that will happen is a small freeze in the stream until the OS adjusts. Drives do fail, true. So do tapes & cameras, too. I've kicked this system as hard as I can over and over again trying to get it to skip. Noting happened - still recording. I'll gladly let you do the same.