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[InteractiveDsgr]

Ive just bought and installed 2 DCS-932L in my children's rooms and it works perfectly in the Day mode.

My problems starts with the Night Mode.

I hear continuous clicking sounds (at every 90 to 120 seconds) as if its rebooting or switching modes. The camera becomes unresponsive for a while and it comes back online 5 to 10 seconds later, after another click sound.

This is really irritating.

Anyone might have an idea what might cause this?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Frederic

[JavaLawyer]

If I understand you correctly, you are referring to the fairly loud clicking noise when the DCS-932L switches between Day Mode and Night Mode. Unfortunately, when the light levels hover around the threshold between Day Mode and Night Mode (e.g. twilight) , the camera will flip back and forth between both modes until the light levels fall well into daylight or well into darkness.

[kamleman]

It might also be a problem with the transformer.

I tried to extend the wire of the original transformer so that I could mount the camera high up.  Spliced in about 2.5m of cable, and when I switched on got exactly that behaviour...red light on...redlight off, clicking sound with IR lights on, and then cycling.

I found that if I reduced the splice to about 1m the problem went away.  I realise that you probably did not monkey around with the hardware I did, but maybe there's a hardware problem with the xformer?

I assume that the camera isn't actually putting out a picture during all this...if it is, then I guess that it is the light level as JavaLawyer says.  You could get around this by manually setting day/night mode timing in the setup.