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Title: Invisable LED's ?
Post by: rowdyplace on July 08, 2013, 05:37:43 AM

Has anyone had any success replacing the red (night vision) LED's with "invisible" ones?
If direct replacement is too damaging to the camera, then building an external ring could possibly work.
I'm not worried about warranty.  Just what LED's to use.

Title: Re: Invisable LED's ?
Post by: JavaLawyer on July 08, 2013, 05:57:45 AM

DCS-932L camera owners have successfully used external third-party IR illuminators as an alternative light source for Night Mode (and used electrical tape to cover the existing on-board IR illuminators).

Title: Re: Invisable LED's ?
Post by: rowdyplace on July 11, 2013, 08:48:25 PM

I have found this.  It appears to tell me everything I need.

http://www.lucidscience.com/pro-simple%20infrared%20illuminator-1.aspx

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Title: Re: Invisible LED's ?
Post by: acellier on July 12, 2013, 11:10:50 AM

@ rowdyplace -
good info, thanks!

Title: Re: Invisable LED's ?
Post by: JavaLawyer on December 19, 2013, 10:20:51 AM

By popular demand, I drafted the following FAQ post to describing the basics of an external IR illuminator: DCS Network Cameras - Improving Night Mode with an External IR Illuminator (http://forums.dlink.com/index.php?topic=56979.0)

If you have additional information that could improve upon this post or see any glaring errors, please let me know and I'll make the appropriate changes.  ;)