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Engineering Elegance, Or Lazy Install?

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Jonathan Lawry
Jan 26, 2015
Trecerdo, LLC

I saw this camera outside of a mid-mountain lodge at a Vermont ski resort this weekend. It appears to be an indoor camera, installed under a solar panel for backup power. Clearly the panel also gives it some level of protection from the elements.

My question: Is this a sign of engineering elegance (solar backup doubling as snow/rain protection), a lazy install, or both?

Ski lodge camera under solar panel

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Luke McKay
Jan 26, 2015

Those are ip66, so at the very least they will keep out most of the moisture. I wouldn't have put that exact camera up but it seems to be a ok solution.

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Brian Rhodes
Jan 26, 2015
IPVMU Certified

I am going to go with lazy. Those poor cables aren't long for this world...

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Ari Erenthal
Jan 26, 2015
Chesapeake & Midlantic

Laziness is the drunken uncle of invention.

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Matthew Rivera
Jan 26, 2015
IPVMU Certified

Value engineered? Most likely lazy.

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Onur Bayraktar
Jan 26, 2016

If the buyer is tracking the cheapest, for some cases they push you create such short life solutions, instead of the perfect fit solution.

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Harrison Mitchell
Jan 26, 2016

What is protecting the camera's jack where it connects to the blue cable? Kinda looks like tape.

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Jonathan Lawry
Jan 26, 2016
Trecerdo, LLC

It certainly does, doesn't it?

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Undisclosed #1
Jan 26, 2016
IPVMU Certified

Equally disturbing is the lack of dip in the drip.

The last cable segment looks like the final turn at Magic Mountain!

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Undisclosed
Jan 28, 2016

Clearly installed by a southerner working there for the ski season. Of course, to a Vermonter, Connecticut is in the deep south.

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