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RE: In Car Cameras

To: "'Bryan Savage'" <basavage@earthlink.net>
Subject: RE: In Car Cameras
From: "Albaugh, Neil" <albaugh_neil@ti.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 11:01:11 -0600
Bryan;

Maybe the video camera problem is simply the fact that those camera
manufacturers are not using enough Texas Instruments parts inside! (advt)  :
)

Regards, Neil     Tucson, AZ


-----Original Message-----
From: Bryan Savage [mailto:basavage@earthlink.net]
Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 9:57 AM
To: Albaugh, Neil
Cc: 'Jim Webb'; Land-Speed
Subject: Re: In Car Cameras



Away to isolate the problem might be to totally block off the sound to 
the camera
and use a small pocket audio recorder.
Bryan



Albaugh, Neil wrote:

>Jim;
>
>The video camera problem could possibly be due to EMI/RFI noise getting
into
>the camera's electronics. Similar problems affect electronic tachometers,
>too. The cure is shielding and filtering-- not always easy.
>
>Regards, Neil     Tucson, AZ
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jim Webb [mailto:jimwebb@nutsracing.com]
>Sent: Sunday, February 09, 2003 7:31 AM
>To: Land-Speed
>Subject: In Car Cameras
>
>
>Morning KT & all,
>
>There's something I've been wanting to ask y'all about... what types and
>what mounting methods have you used for in-car video cameras?
>
>At Speedweek and Finals last year we mounted a C-VHS regular hand-held
>camera to the roll cage in the Big Red Truck. Since Bernie had some
>experience with cameras on alcohol dragsters, he recommended that we tape
>foam over the microphone to damp out some of the audio else it would
>overdrive the video. So we put some foam over the mic...
>
>The video worked OK - at least until the motor started making power. Then
>the world blanked to all white. There were momentary glimpses of the course
>during shifts and the world all came back after shutdown. Of course, it was
>a lot of fun telling people that when you are accelerating that much, the
>world _really_ does go all white! The audio was great, except that
everybody
>can hear a bad shift. ;-)
>
>Anyway, I know there are lots of in-car cameras and I'm sure that folks
have
>'em working well, so I'm looking for a few pointers. A single camera with
>audio would be good, and something that could record multiple angles would
>be better. Something that didn't cost a fortune would be ideal.
>
>Oh yeah, after World Finals, Bernie got out the camera and discovered that
>some of the internals had diassembled themselves. I guess JVC doesn't use
>enough loctite!
>
>Thanks,
>Jim Webb
>jimwebb@nutsracing.com
>Chock Full o' Nuts
>#527 A/PP 193.402 2002
>     B/PP 190.967 2002
>     A/PP 172.695 2001

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