okay if you got the um lorex security system or pretty much any security system
they give you the cameras the wires and the um the dvr type recorder like this for the most part so
then you run the wires from the dvr to the cameras and that's how you connect to these wired systems
there are a lot um more resolution and you don't have to worry about batteries like
on the wireless system so they're pretty cool but they do have a problem i want to show you
so on this system we have a battery symbol on four of the eight cameras i have and i'm showing
you little battery symbols here and what that means is the power to the camera is insufficient
to record um it's losing resolution let's say you can't really tell on some of them um
they're not that bad but if you have a little battery symbol it means that there's not enough
power going to that camera and we're going to solve that pretty quickly here
now in the loric system it comes with the 12 volt 2 amp adapter and each camera two
cameras are put on each adapter so if you have six cameras you're gonna have three adapters
and what happens is on longer cable cable runs let's say the standard cable run you get with
your camera system is sixty feet let's say if you add 100 feet or put 260 feet together to get
120 or even 200 feet the longer the cable run the more power it's going to require for that camera
so from the nvr to the camera sometimes you can get a fuzzy image or image
drops out or you get that um you get that little camera battery symbol on the um images at night
especially at night because the infrared takes a lot more power than during the day so to fix
this problem what you do is you basically go to a third party and buy a bigger power adapter so
you got a 12 volt 2 amp that comes with the system you could go to amazon or somebody and
buy a 12 volt 5 amp a 12 volt 8 amp a 12 volt 10 amp adapter the bigger the better but let's
say you get the 5 amp you could easily put two cameras on a 5 amp and so if you have six cameras
you might want to buy three of those adapters and they run around ten dollars on amazon the
only reason why i'm saying amazon is because when i first bought my power adapters off amazon i
received some that didn't work properly they could barely run one camera even though there are five
amps and that's because of a manufacturing problem with these adapters that seems to be common
so that's why i say if you're going to buy these get it from a store or retailer that
you can return them because it seems that a lot of these adapters are made by basically the same
company and they're not made very well so um a 5 amp should be there to run easily two cameras
even three cameras um i have five amps on two cameras each so i have basically three adapters
on six cameras um on my other two cameras i'm using the standard adapter because they're
in the light all the time and they don't require a bigger adapter so here you can see
after i put the bigger adapter on i lost all the little battery symbols on the um
four cameras i have it was having trouble with so if you have a problem with your camera system
it might be because the power for the adapter is not enough one of my viewers actually
suggested that for longer runs he uses a bigger adapter and that's why i wanted to do this video
because people don't know that right off and the images come in a little clearer
with the bigger adapter the only image that's not coming in very clear is the one on the upper right
because there isn't that much um it's pretty dark over there um when there's no movement when it's
movement the lights come on and you could see but um it's it helped a little bit there but not much
so if you have problems just you can purchase these adapters for like 10 and give it a shot
Lorex Security System 4k Problem most people will have