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Want Advice On Cleaning Lens On Dome Camera Mounted 36' High?

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Dwayne Grant
Aug 22, 2015

Have an Axis 3007-pv mounted 36’ high above the tipping floor of a waste reduction facility. It’s been in use for 10 months. We’ve cleaned it once 2 months ago with a bucket truck. Looking for other alternatives beside a lift. Looked at some pole cleaners on line. Want a general consensus on a good quality pole cleaner.

Thanks Dwayne Grant

Axis M3007-pv

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John Honovich
Aug 22, 2015
IPVM

See: Camera Cleaning Tool - Domewizard and DIY

Brian or Ethan will likely have more specific feedback, but that is the closest related post.

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Dwayne Grant
Aug 22, 2015

John thanks, I saw that article already. Was wondering if anyone has any different options? Has a drone been retrofitted to accomplish this yet?

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Brian Rhodes
Aug 22, 2015
IPVMU Certified

A drone, no. :)

Short of the extension pole, I'm not sure how you'd get that lens clean without getting up there with a lift.

We did a post on a lowering mount (No More Bucket Trucks? CamEvator). Despite that being overkill here, maybe you could rig up a mount with a similar idea? Use rope wire and pulleys to lower the camera for periodic cleaning?

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Marty Major
Aug 22, 2015
Teledyne FLIR

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Undisclosed #1
Aug 22, 2015
IPVMU Certified

If you're willing to sacrifice a sliver of your FOV to see clear thru the rest:

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Israel Gogol
Aug 23, 2015

sorry for the Off-topic: too bad you can't find this guy:

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Christopher Freeman
Sep 08, 2015

We use a truck with a Grabbit with a extension for cleaning lites , works great , only reaches about 30 ' though so if your trying long pole , it wont work

The Problem I dont see or hear much about is not the dirt, but the spider webs, that streak across the housing an during the nite create effects on the illuminators , distortions, lite waves from other lite sources , and other effects in the videos

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Daniel S-T
Sep 08, 2015

I once attached a sponge to an extention pole to clean a camera about 28' off the ground. It worked surpringly well!

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Dwayne Grant
Sep 08, 2015

Thanks with the sponge idea, didn't even think of that. Did you use water? Did you get water streaks after it dried?

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Daniel S-T
Sep 08, 2015

Regular water. It was a fixed dome, so I gave a real good scrub on the viewing area, didn't care much about the rest of the dome. It was at our office, and a few years ago now (don't typically mount cameras that high with the new job). I don't recall any streaks, but it was also very, very dirty, so even with a few streaks it was a massive improvement.

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