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Selecting ******
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Cordless ******
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Batteries *** ******** ******
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***** *** ****** **** ********* ***** *** ****** to ** *********** ****** one ** ******** ******* extremely **** ********.
Pick *** ******* ****** *** ***** **** **
******* ***** **** ************* have ***** ************* ******* sizes *** *******. **** selecting * ******** *****, think ***** **** ***** power ***** *** **** so *** *** *** a ******** ***** ** the **** ******. *****, good ***** *** ** found ** *********** **** containing *****, ****, ** even ***** ********* ***** tools, *** ******** ** work ****** * ****** battery ********.
Corded ******
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Driver ******
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*** ******* **** ** an *** ******** ****** drill **** ******* *** charger ******** ** ~$*** USD. *** ******* **** of * *********** ******* is ~$*** ***.
*** ******* **** ** a ** *** ******** speed ****** ****** ***** is ~$*** ***.
Hammer ******
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Rotary ****** ******
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Drill ****** - ******* ** ***** ** ***
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Comments (37)
Undisclosed Integrator #1
Really scrapping the barrel for content. I'd be surprised if 1 member read this and thought I didn't know that.
Being informative is a good thing but stating the obvious is another thing altogether.
imho
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Undisclosed Integrator #2
We always use Bosch with Li-ion batteries. Impact drivers, drills and hammer drills. Been really solid and well performing only having the odd failure when they get really old.
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Undisclosed Integrator #4
We commonly use impact drivers for Tapcons as well. They break with ease if you use a regular drill. Impact drivers do the trick perfectly.
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Michael Archer
Very good topic, every part of CCTV installation for professionals is valuable educational material for everyone. Readership of IPVM covers a wide spectrum of people.
Understanding the needs for jobs in hand is the basics. If you don't have that right you are in trouble.
Green plugs, now if you check your CCTV camera from China, and wonder why it comes with the kind of plugs below you ever wonder why?
China buildings are all solid concrete blocks slapped together, so the only way to install anything at home on a wall any where means you must use a SDS hammer drill. So the use of the above style of wall plug/anchors are provided. mostly are the lowest cost part of your purchase.
In rural places they use splinters of wood, picked up from the floor. Newly build homes come pre-installed with 4inch diamond cut holes in every room, for Air Conditioning units. However there is no way possible to route cables for CCTV unless you chase the walls, so CCTV installations are not the most cosmetically attractive.
Everyday you can see someone carrying a giant core cutter drill on a bike, on a metro, on a skateboard whatever's needed!
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Joseph Parker
My installers have always carried a cordless hammerdrill, corded hammerdrill, corded SDS, and a variety of drivers. We also have a couple of floating SDS Max corded units with various outrageously expensive yet indispensable core bits. Then one day I was on a 60 camera warehouse job and noticed I had one tech spending 90% of his time moving cords for the guy on the boom lift. Went next door to tool co. and bought a Dewalt 20v cordless SDS and some 5AH batteries. It was one of those tool purchases that was both incredibly helpful but also soul wrenching as I realized how much time we had wasted previously. My techs now carry a cordless SDS as well, and haven't drilled a hole in concrete with anything else since. Shoot, I'll get mine out if I want to hang a peghook in the garage with a single tapcon.
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Righteous Indignation
(timidly raises hand)
As a strict DIYer, with only my personal home install(s) and zero formal industry training; who has searched for this type of information after our first burglary (folks that are burgled once are 30% more likely to be victims a second time; my family experienced THREE in a two year time span, not including larceny x3 and vandalism x5) from an industry that does its best to keep this info "in house"/"behind closed doors" (I literally stumbled upon IPVM during recent research into my second system to replace the vandalized first install, never having info of this caliber show up in search queries; been at this since 2013!!) who is contemplating an ongoing membership, I am that "1 member" that did not know these fundamentals. And most people that know me consider me to be pretty handy.
The hundreds of hours of research I've invested in just trying to find the most basic info that's not peppered with advertising pitches/commercials/pop-ups/malvertising, coupled with the stress of needing to do the install(s) myself due to financial considerations while 'flying blind' could have been avoided altogether had I known, or been guided to IPVM from the start.
I know I represent a very small demographic in memberships, and that all installations really ought to be left to professionals, which is not how the multitude of these products are widely sold, but at the same time I find immense value in the info contained here at IPVM, because finances are what they are for me right now. So much so that this tutorial is THE deciding factor in planning to budget an ongoing membership as well as recommending IPVM membership to all my friends and family and anyone else I run into who is considering/researching security surveillance in their home/business. IPVM is like the insider's - inside club.
I can't thank IPVM enough for this opportunity.
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Roman Dabrowski
My go to drill and one I use more than any is my old trusty Stanley Yankee push drill! No batteries, and no cords! I have drilled pilot holes into wood and laminates and drilled into into mortar, drywall, plaster for anchors, and even thin gauge metal.
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