Teardown / Parting Out Wisenet XNP-6550RH Security Camera 

It's so cool that you were able to locate the old position of the camera

Man, I remember when that was a brand new camera...... Among the laundry list of odd jobs I did, casino surveillance was one for like 8 years. Ended up hands on learning to be a tech, doing installs, and had local law enforcement constantly bringing footage from robberies etc from stop and rob stores, and such regularly. Most of what we worked with, you had to have a low voltage power line, and a coaxial type BNC connection on each camera. Even a smallish casino, the wiring added up quick. 300 feet across property each direction, give or take, and 2 lines to every camera, in the case of the one that was about that size, we had 93 cameras. A few outside, but inside was heavy on "money trail" cameras. Tables to cage, cage to vault, vault to deposit bag going out. I cannot begin to tell you the things I saw..... Even in some cases 20 years later, I am just jaw dropped. When my job profile upgraded, I was often the guy taking a random gym bag out of the place, and off to the bank. You ever wanna piss off a drive thru teller? Roll in with 23 little tube shuttle loads of cash, checks, and such.......

Alright that was super cool that you could see that exact camera on the street view

I love when the video starts out with a bold "I have no idea what I'm doing".. Makes me really want to see where and how this goes! :D

Build a wire bridge. De-solder the connector and then place wiring between the gap. Then, you can fit the other connector into the mating port of the other port.

I am unreasonably excited to see what you do with that pan tilt frame.

WALL-E. Your hording your parts so you can replace when needed. Great content keep it going. Use the heck out of that bottom assembly. Thanks for your efforts and time.

“i’m not going to throw that away” - channel name checks out 😂

Bro you have the coolest tinker house setup I have ever seen . I freaking love it ! The thrifted tinkerer !!! Great finds man !

I liked watching the snow melt in the time lapse at the end.

Nice work on the security breach combined with the osint follow-up :)

Thanks for the video! It was a lot of fun to watch you tear this camera down. It's really cool that you were able to locate the old position of the camera on Google Street View. I also like that you saved all the parts, even the ones you couldn't use. You never know when they might come in handy!😎😎

I am a Certified Safety Professional and I approve this video 👍👍🤣🇺🇸

Thats one of the best performing 2 megapixel cameras ever made. 55x zoom, the IR focal matches whatever zoom you use. The camera is POE. I've installed tons of these.

The PTZ part is probably the biggest Gimbal I've ever seen. I think the resolution on it is probably really high the day and night video you played was crystal clear! The size of the camera sensor makes a big difference in video quality. My Canon 90D DSLR only has a 2/3 sensor that thing is probably 10x the size.

I love how you take things apart and reuse components for other projects. I've learned a lot from observing your think-out-of-the-box approach. Also that safety strap doubles as a 3rd hand. You clip it on to something secure so that you don't have to use 2 hands to hold up the unit and have no hand to turn the screwdriver. I've worked as a gaffer for theater and TV and Movies and that's it primary purpose in that field. 1:52 yea, sounds like what Apple does. Can you say Lightning connector? And how about the older 30pin iPhone thing. Finding the cam location is a fun thing to do for sure. Love the timelapse

Love the Hamms bear pillow, he is a sadly missed mascot that needs to return.

How mighty friendly of them to sell you tons of free background/stock footage lol.

That camera has a pretty baller 55x optical zoom 😉

Very interesting video Gabe, also great bit of detective work finding your original camera mount. So it’s safe to assume that weren’t impressed with the power supply? Lol 😂 must agree with you about companies doing that though. Thank you for sharing this brilliant video, best wishes to you and the family.

Always Fun Pulling PTZ Cameras apart! I Run a CCTV Shop and do a lot of repairs. Just Think that camera is a $4,000 Camera Well "Was" LOL! IT's Strange that the connector did not fit , All the Wisenet PTZ cameras i have used seems to always be the same. But going to guess , they got warranty and that's the first thing the manufacture told them to change , the 60W POE Board.

Yeah that actually was kind of fun that you were able to find the camera on Google maps

Really cool stuff! Also surprised that they left those SDCards in the camera. It would be really interesting to see what flash chips you could read firmware from on that device :)

Nice on the fly geoguessing!

Eesh.. felt like you were disassembling Johnny 5 by the end... 🤖😌 Some very decent high quality parts in that head though, quite impressive and will definitely be good for other projects.

First Amish man that I have seen who has his own RU-vid channel. Progressive.

Love the internet sleuthing you did to find your camera.

Oh my, Transformers are gold. If they are good you add a rectifier & voltage regulators & get a non-switching style power supply free of the RF pollution that other supplies generate. You can give yourself several DC voltages by using several regulators. One of the nicest features to have is a supply that gives you say minus 6 volts to plus 6 volts because most op-amps require such an arrangement in order to be utilized. Op amps are great but too much to discuss in this tiny comment. If the transformer is shot like the one I just found that came out of a, from a flood, car battery charger then you salvage the magnet wire that makes the primary & secondary windings. I got 30 feet of 13 gage wire & over 100 feet of 18 gage wire. The lighter wire is being used for a 20 meter antenna & another length for an antenna that feeds the precurser to a direct conversion receiver where that is a regenerative receiver. As far as small ceramic capacitors, except for the large ones I find they are not worth the effort to salvage. Inductors especially RF chokes are worth it, variable capscitors hands down are worth it, the hook up wire is worth it, knobs are worth it, heat sinks are worth it. But, above all salvage the transformer is my creed.

I love these type of videos. Keep them coming!!! Love your engineering thinking.

No disassemble Number 5!

2:27 It looked back at ya as if to say, "no sh*t, I am a robot head!" 😆 😆

LOL the face in the thumbnail... That's gonna get them clicks baby!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Even before clicking on the video i just knew you would find a way to involve satalites into it! 😂 Interesting video as always. Maybe the infrared can be used to make SaveItForParts night vision goggles? Warm greetings from the Netherlands🇳🇱.

He really did my boy Wheatley dirty.

Very cool and interesting! Save them parts!

Rip, little robot.

And this is a nice set of optics

maybe use jumper leads to bridge those connectors, done it before with weird PLC controllers.

Awesome 😎 Thank you for sharing with us.

0:07 “ you know you’re going to to learn their names” 😂

Isn't there supposed to be like a plexiglass Dome over that gimbal assembly? I love that little heater unit! A power resistor, bi metal thermostat and a fan. It doesn't get any simpler than that. I imagine the Optics on that camera are pretty darn good

The way the camera seems to be specifically at the road, I wonder if it was used for traffic studies or something

I can only imagine the price of that beast.

They should sell the van too..... It doesnt seem to be getting used 😂😂😂😂

Only malicous corperations can anger Gabe. You're a well-spirited guy, you know? I suppose you could desolder the connectors and directly wire the two boards together .. defeats the purpose of the easy disconnect though. Man, that plain 'ol sucks.

Your videos are always interesting!

Great Video thanks for sharing 🙏

Ha ha Leuk 1 Mega grote Bolcamera

"where i have no idea what i'm going with this video" 🤣🤣🤣

depending on the build quality of the camera, it might use USB or a MIPI-CSI bus, I have torn apart a smaller IP camera in the past that was the USB type, but this was from about 10+ years ago when it was cheaper to make IP cameras out of USB 'webcam' type chipsets combined with a basic ARM or MIPS based SBC and some motor control logic. I still have it in my 'parts' bin. that lens assembly has motors in it as well, some of the additional lines from he camera board are no doubt for controlling the zoom and focus adjustments, probably the Iris too and the IR Filter.

I would save the housing and cowling for the fact it might add weatherproof to the mechanism, so you can install it statically on your roof. Sad for the camera, might have been a good one (lens is really big!) but I get you!. stepper motors seem to be bipolar (i.e. 4 wires), which is a pain in the back to drive but a simple cheap controller might do the job.

There is a raspberry pi stepper motor hat which has the same molex connectors as the stepper motors

These aren't the droids you're looking for :D lol

If you're looking for a real challenge you might be able to repurpose the camera to keep the lenses and slot a new CCD in there.

That's a good mechanism. The illuminators are likely infrared. Camera probably isn't worth it, but the mounting and lensing may be useful. My house burned down not quite two weeks ago, so I'm going to be excavating my own stash. FreeGeek will probably take some of it, but I'm sure some is just going to end up as E-waste. I really wish there was something like a makerspace where other like-minded folk may find a use for stuff, but I don't know of anything. Leonardo's Basement was once like that, but they haven't responded to my inquiries.

1:17 I'm certain that cable is for Japanese building code. Earthquake!

Be careful. Pretty sure that is a Turret from Fallout 4.

The base w/connectors is the wrong one for your unit. Someone just threw a part with it to make it "complete."

Could you just cut that plug in the middle and plug it individually the black plastic piece, is it solderedto th boardon pins, cut right between the 2 D connectors to separate them? That may be a infrared illuminator.

O,O,O, I could put that on my RPV! 😱😁😝🤣🤪👍👍🇺🇸

The wife and I watch you cause you never lie to all of us!!👍👍

The sensor on that camera may be unimpressive, but the lens is probably a standard connection, long zoom range, and pretty decent quality

That used to be a nice camera, I am already curious to see what will become of the camera parts. It is not good that the connector does not fit.

Maybe the pinouts are different and something will break if you connect a base to the wrong camera. The misaligned connection is actually an elegant way to prevent damage to the camera.

Samsung will have that connection. They own the pat on the wisenet. FYI that camera was probably 3500 usd new.

What a bummer... I hope to see a working cam, a bit hacking and soldering. I thought.... desolder the connectors and wire the two pcbs together...

i wonder how many back doors would be on there software for that cam

handy man corner

I tore down a PTZ today as well! It's a Geek Nexus

Was that looking at the 10th Ave. bridge rebuild they did a while back?

HI i see your problem powering the camera ! But there are ways ,i was thinking at first adjust that plug thats just a touch small as in cutting one off or both as clean as you can and use these connectors on a new base epoxy them on after you wired them up ...make them fit ! Idea 2 no plug ! have a look at where the voltage gos in to the main board the PCB ,The capacitors will tell you around about what volage is used it will be under what they are rated at if 16 v more than likely 12v if they have a 50v cap perhaps 30v ,the connection to the board ....one will be ground where all the large caps are look at the positive where of the caps gos ...gives you an idea where to connect the voltage ...Look at the ics ! google them ! the data on the pin connections tell you where to power them what is their rated voltage again you now have a idea on the low voltage side of the circuits ...look for regulators they turn what coming in to a lower voltage ...you have to really study power supplies .....So really you have to be a detective with no circuit data but you have information infront of you study the wiring in from power which i would guess is mains you can by pass this and feed in DC as i mentioned if you look at the caps and ics and feed it the correct voltages . Mains in would be the easiest if you can work out Ground and AC mains in you could solder a mains cable to the other side of the connector

I'm wondering if that connector board might be for a similar but different model of camera that was also scrapped at the same time?

Sun tracking unit for solar panels? Saint Paul is a great place to track the sun for your solar panels. Is that camera rotator strong enough to support 200 W?

Remove connectors, use ide ribbon cable to extend them n 3d print a spacer to use that bottom mount. Proprietary "save it for parts" mount😂

Maybe the connectors used pigtails?

LMFAO Dinky Town. 3:12

are those connectors redundant? Will one do the job?

Just starting video but it could make for an interesting R1D1-Type_Zero Droid Unit ^_^

I wonder if you can see the last file a d see if it just stopped working or if it was just removed for obsolescence

You didn't by chance create a Strong break productions did you? Kus if your my old friend from long ago, that would be awesome to just stumble on to your channel and see your keeping up with recording and making videos

Pull the screws out and see what happens.

Hanwha Vision is basically Samsung

If it was my camera, I'd just use some copper wires to bridge the spacially mismatched connectors electrically 1:1 and just see what happens.

I know this may be farfetched but, It would be really cool if you registered each part with some sort of serial number containing Video#, item#, part# + whatever you need to keep track of it and then when you do end up using the part everyone can know which video that part was from. Later on when we see your frankenstein creation with part numbers CAM2345 + SAT1234 we know what parts you used and you could still mention it in the video. I know it may be out of the scope of the channel but thats just how my brain works, it may not be to other's fancy. Also, it would help you keep track of your stuffs when creating a digital database for youur personal use.

Gabe: *_"If I EVER become the purchasing manager for a company I will NEVER purchase proprietary garbage like this."_* *HONEYWELL* has entered the comment section...🤭

lol, that camera looks like a prop

Robot face Halloween mask

Damn. I was almost the 69th like.

Spectacular camera! If it worked, I would try using it to track the moon or sun with a lens filter during eclipses at some point. In fact, I had that idea and did something with an Axis P5635-E that I haven't finished yet due to lack of time. I have several old Axis Q6042-E cameras that I have saved to make tracking antennas for UHF bands, as you mentioned in the video. I also don't know if it would support the weight of a small telescope on such a structure to track the International Space Station, planets, etc. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rNXX35oHmDQ.html