{"id":307,"date":"2010-08-26T22:04:26","date_gmt":"2010-08-26T22:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bcmeteors.net\/wp\/2010\/08\/26\/sentinel-iii-system-in-photos\/"},"modified":"2010-08-26T22:04:26","modified_gmt":"2010-08-26T22:04:26","slug":"sentinel-iii-system-in-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bcmeteors.net\/?p=307","title":{"rendered":"Sentinel III system in photos"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Camera and Housing

<\/strong>The housing for the camera, the anti-dew heater, the thermostat,  and fan are all housed inside a PVC tube and toilet flange. <\/strong>
As packed for shipping. Stands approximately 0.5 meter tall.



<\/strong>Top shipping end removed reveals the camera and baffle.

\"Top

The Rainbow L163VDC4P fisheye lens mounted on the camera body. Note the PVC stiffener rods with coax cable running through it..

\"fisheye


<\/strong>
Once the top section tube is removed the heater (consisting of two 50 watt metal case power resistors plus heat sink plate), 
the thermostat, circulating fan, the tube supports and camera are revealed.


<\/strong>Here is a close up of thermostat control. It is set at 100 F (37.7 C)which prevents dew or ice from forming on the dome.

\"Thermostat\"

Close up of the Rainbow L163VDC4P fisheye lens adjustment levers. Protective cap over the lens.

\"Lens

The Sony HiCam HB-710E camera body.

\"Camera


The DIP switches (4), Level and AGC adjust potentiometers, plus power, and auto focus attachments at base of the Sony HB-710E.
\"Dip\"
The bottom section that houses the AC cord (white) and the  video coax plus video output jacks with RCA to BNC converter.
\"Bottomof

Once adjustments were made and lens centred on CCD chip the system was reassembled and the acrylic dome placed over the lens.

\"Dome\"

The Sentinel Video box, the frame grabber, the red face box with black power cord (left)  and video input coax on the right.

\"Vid2\"

Close up of the Sentinel Video box (frame grabber). Coax video input via BNC and DC input +3.3 V.

\"Close

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The Camera and Housing The housing for the camera, the anti-dew heater, the thermostat, and fan are all housed inside a PVC tube and toilet flange. As packed for shipping. Stands approximately 0.5 meter tall. Top shipping end removed reveals the camera and baffle. The Rainbow L163VDC4P fisheye lens mounted on the camera body. Note … Continue reading “Sentinel III system in photos”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":295,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-video-methods"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcmeteors.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcmeteors.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcmeteors.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcmeteors.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcmeteors.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bcmeteors.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcmeteors.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcmeteors.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcmeteors.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcmeteors.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}