NiteMaxx digital night vision camera

**ROMbler** · 03-11-2006, 03:58 PM

Recieved mine today - very cool. Thanks for all your help!!

**pcfreak** · 03-11-2006, 04:47 PM

Yeah I received mine today as well but was wondering if you had any schematics to help me get this working with an independent camera? I thought by the pic that you had it had a vid in jack on the front, but it turns out that it is a vid out jack, my bad. Any help would be appreciated. Other wise I will spend the time sooner or later to figure it out. Thanks for the package Mark.... Excellent pack job....

**shotgunefx** · 03-11-2006, 05:05 PM

Originally Posted by pcfreak

Yeah I received mine today as well but was wondering if you had any schematics to help me get this working with an independent camera? I thought by the pic that you had it had a vid in jack on the front, but it turns out that it is a vid out jack, my bad. Any help would be appreciated. Other wise I will spend the time sooner or later to figure it out. Thanks for the package Mark.... Excellent pack job....

If you have a complete camera, If you disconnect the camera board (the 3 wire molex plug), the video out becomes in. I accidently plugged something into the output while I had the camera and it kind of composited the signals, but not in a good way. Didn't seem to harm anything, but who knows.

If you just have a back half, you just power it and then use the video-out as an input jack.

**pcfreak** · 03-11-2006, 05:19 PM

Just the lcd here... good info... but how is just the lcd powered? Which wires get the power and on the front it says 9 volt but I read back on like page 3 that they take 12 volt. Just want to make sure I don't fry one.

**shotgunefx** · 03-11-2006, 05:22 PM

Originally Posted by pcfreak

Just the lcd here... good info... but how is just the lcd powered? Which wires get the power and on the front it says 9 volt but I read back on like page 3 that they take 12 volt. Just want to make sure I don't fry one.

I believe (not 100% off the top of my head) you can put 12v to it (I wouldn't put a car's 12v to it, cause it ain't 12v, for that you'll need a regulator).

You can use a 9v adapter as well. That will work. I've done that.

**NiteMax Mark** · 03-11-2006, 05:30 PM

Originally Posted by greenman100

How do I power the LCD (Which wires do I connect) and will this lens:

http://cgi.ebay.com/CS-2-5mm-Fixed-I...QQcmdZViewItem

work directly with my camera?

The lens looks perfect.

Should we start a new NiteMax LCD Thread?

- Apply 12v DC on JP1 Pin 11
- Attach Ground to JP1 Pin 9
- On the pads near JP1, connect a 5k Ohm potentiometer between the "5v" pad and the "Gnd" Pad. Connect the center (wiper) pin of the potentiometer to the "Brt" pad.
- Feed the video signal in on JP1 Pin 5

Here's the LCD Controller Board...

Pin Name... I/O Pin Description...................... Remark
--- ------- --- ------------------------------------- ----------------------------------
1.. /Hsync. .O. Horizontal Sync...................... Output for specific Application.
2.. /Vsync. .O. Vertical Sync........................ Output for specific Application.
3.. NPC.... I/O NTSC/PAL mode selection.............. Note 1
4.. SW..... .I. Composite/Analog RGB Signal Selection Note 2
5.. CVS.... .I. Composite Video Signal Input.........
6.. Bin.... .I. Separated Blue Video Signal Input....
7.. Rin.... .I. Separated Red Video Signal Input.....
8.. Gin.... .I. Separated Green Video Signal Input...
9.. GND.... .-. Ground...............................
10. GNDS... .-. Ground...............................
11. Vin.... .I. 12 Voltage DC Input..................
12. GNDS... .-. Ground...............................
13. COL.... .I. Color terminal adjustment............
14. LR..... .I. Left/Right scan selection............ Note 3
15. UD..... .I. Up/Down scan selection............... Note 4

Note 1: Default is auto detect for NTSC or PAL system.(Controlled by internal UPS015) High for NTSC mode and Low for PAL mode.

Note 2: Default is Composite Signal (Low); High is for seperate Analog RGB signals.

Note 3: Default is reversed scanning (High) and Low is for normal scanning (L —›R).

Note 4: Default is reversed scanning (High) and Low is for normal scanning (U —›D).

**NiteMax Mark** · 03-11-2006, 05:34 PM

Originally Posted by shotgunefx

I believe (not 100% off the top of my head) you can put 12v to it (I wouldn't put a car's 12v to it, cause it ain't 12v, for that you'll need a regulator).

You can use a 9v adapter as well. That will work. I've done that.

The Power Supply Board in the NiteMax takes any voltage from 6v to 12v or so and converts it to the needed 12v for the CCD Camera Board and the LCD Controller Board inside. If you've got a complete NiteMax, then you you can feed it 6v to 12v or so and it'll do the conversion.

BUT...

If you are working with the LCD or CCD Camera Board directly, you'll need to feed them with your own regulated source of 12v DC. (You can get 12v from the HDD or Floppy Connectors of a PC Power Supply.)

**pcfreak** · 03-11-2006, 06:04 PM

Good deal Mark... you Daman... but 1 more stupid question..... what voltage do you feed the IR Arrays? As it appears that it was getting it's power from the other half of the unit, are they also 12v? Sorry that I'm a pain in the ars.....but hey, that's me......

**NiteMax Mark** · 03-11-2006, 06:14 PM

Originally Posted by pcfreak

Good deal Mark... you Daman... but 1 more stupid question..... what voltage do you feed the IR Arrays? As it appears that it was getting it's power from the other half of the unit, are they also 12v? Sorry that I'm a pain in the ars.....but hey, that's me......

The IR Array gets a variable voltage from the NiteMax Power Supply Board. You can feed it whatever voltage you'd like depending on the brightness you want. At 12v DC you'll get full brightness. At 6.8v DC you'll get basically nohing. If you pick a voltage between, you'll get a brightness in between.