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DX7000 Series Digital V ideo Recorder C665M-C (5/03) ® OPERA TION/PROGRAMMING[...]
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2 C665M-C (5/03) CONTENTS Section Page GETTING ST ARTED ................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................. 5 DISPLA Y MODE .......................................................................[...]
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C665M-C (5/03) 3 PRESETS ................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 44 HOW TO MOVE TO A PRESET ......................................................................................[...]
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C665M-C (5/03) 5 GETTING ST ARTED Y ou will need to install your unit before using this manual. Refer to the installation manual supplied with the DX7000 for installation instructions. Once the system is installed open the front panel of the DVR and press and hold the power switch down until the LED turns green. The operating software of the DX7000[...]
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6 C665M-C (5/03) Figure 1. Display Mode 1 Camera Name and Recording Status – The colored circle located to the right of the on-screen camera name indicates the recording status of the camera. RED indicates that the camera is recording continuously . If the circle is BLUE , camera recording was triggered by motion detection. YELLOW indicates senso[...]
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C665M-C (5/03) 7 7 COPY Button (Backup) – Click the COPY button to record to a backup device that is recommended by Pelco. NOTE: The copy button appears only if a backup device, such as Pelco’ s DX7000CD and software, are installed. Refer to the How to Copy to a Backup Device section of this manual for more information. 8 EXIT Button – Click [...]
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8 C665M-C (5/03) SYSTEM SETUP To set up the DX7000 Digital Video Recorder , click the SETUP button located in the DISPLA Y mode. The SETUP mode appears on the screen. T o exit the SETUP mode and return to the DISPLA Y mode click the EXIT button. WARNING: The DX7000 server will stop recording and all remote site users will be disconnected during sys[...]
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C665M-C (5/03) 9 Figure 2. Camera Setup Menu 1 CAMERA NAME Box – T o name a camera drag the cursor over the text in the CAMERA NAME box and type in the new name. Up to 70 characters can be entered in the box. 2 SIGNAL TYPE – Set the NTSC/P AL signal to the correct camera setting for your location. NOTE: The NTSC/P AL switch located on the back [...]
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10 C665M-C (5/03) COLOR SETUP If required, use this screen to adjust the contrast, brightness, and color level settings of a scene. Figure 3. Color Setup Menu 1 CAMERA Selection Box – Use the drop down menu to the right of the camera selection box to select a camera. 2 CON (Contrast) Slider Bar – Drag the cursor on the CON bar to change the con[...]
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C665M-C (5/03) 11 4 RED Slider Bar – Drag the cursor on the RED bar to adjust the red color level of the viewed and recorded scene. 5 GREEN Slider Bar – Drag the cursor on the GREEN bar to adjust the green color level of the viewed and recorded scene. 6 BLUE Slider Bar – Drag the cursor on the BLUE bar to adjust the blue color level of the vi[...]
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12 C665M-C (5/03) SCHEDULE SETUP The default recording schedule for the DX7000 is to continuously record all enabled cameras twenty-four hours a day , seven days a week. Pelco recommends clearing the default setting before programming a schedule. T o clear the default setting click the CLEAR ALL SCHEDULE button. T wenty-four group schedules can be [...]
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C665M-C (5/03) 13 3 END TIME - Program the time to stop recording. If you want GROUP 1 to stop recording at 5:30 in the evening, use the arrow keys and set the END TIME to 4 CLEAR ALL SCHEDULE – Clears all group schedules. FULL RECORD – Configures Group 1 to record continuously all enabled cameras twenty-four hours, seven days a week. SENSOR TO[...]
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14 C665M-C (5/03) HOW TO SET A SCHEDULE Example: Record 4 cameras with motion detection from Monday to Friday , 8:00 AM - 6:00 PM; Saturday 8:00 AM - 2:00 PM; and no recording on Sunday . Step 1 – Select GROUP 01 and set the ST ART TIME to 8:00 and END TIME to 18:00. Step 2 – Check MON, TUE, WED, THU, and FRI in the DA Y OF WEEK section. Step 3[...]
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C665M-C (5/03) 15 Step 5 – Select GROUP 02 and set the ST ART TIME to 8:00 and END TIME to 14:00. Step 6 – Check SA T in the DA Y OF WEEK section. Step 7 – Select 01, 02, 03, and 04 in CAMERA section. Step 8 – Select 01, 02, 03, and 04 in MOTION section.[...]
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16 C665M-C (5/03) SPEED SETUP Use the Speed Setup window to program the recording rate for each camera and to program the pre-alarm function for motion and sensor recording modes. The total images per second available to be distributed for all enabled cameras varies by the mode selected. In duplex mode the maximum recording speed is 60 fps. In simp[...]
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C665M-C (5/03) 17 4 IMAGE QUALITY Slider Bar – Sets the quality of the recorded image. Image quality affects storage capacity and transmission rate. More bandwidth and storage capacity is required for high quality images. VHS image quality is equal to 43%. 5 MOTION EXT . (Extended) DURA TION Slider Bar – Sets recording time after motion is dete[...]
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18 C665M-C (5/03) 1 3 2 MOTION SPEED MENU Figure 6. Motion Speed Menu 1 MOTION Button– Select the MOTION button to open the motion speed menu. Use this menu to set motion detection and pre-alarm recording speeds. 2 Motion Recording Speed Slider Bar –Use the slider bar to set the recording rate for motion detection. If the camera is already set [...]
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C665M-C (5/03) 19 1 3 2 SENSOR SPEED MENU Figure 7. Sensor Speed Menu 1 SENSOR Button – Select the SENSOR button to open sensor speed menu. Use this menu to set the sensor detection and pre-alarm recording speeds. 2 Sensor Recording Speed Slider Bar - Use the slider bar to set the recording rate for sensor detection. If the camera is already set [...]
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20 C665M-C (5/03) MOTION DETECTION SETUP Motion detection recording saves hard drive space and makes it easier to search and retrieve recorded data. Use the motion detection menu to select the motion detection areas of a scene. See item 5 for details and limitations. Figure 8. Motion Detection Setup Menu 1 CAMERA Selection Box – Displays the name[...]
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C665M-C (5/03) 21 4 CLEAR ALL BLOCK Button – Deletes all motion detection area blocks for the selected camera. 5 Camera View - A red box indicates an area is set for motion detection. A maximum of 10 detection areas can be set per camera. HOW TO SET UP MOTION DETECTION AREAS a. Select a camera: 1. Click the pull down arrow to the right of the CAM[...]
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22 C665M-C (5/03) P ASSWORD SETUP DX7000 features four levels of password protection to prevent unauthorized changes or use of the system. The following are the four password levels: Administrator Full rights, able to access and setup all system features. Search User Has permission to view live video and search recorded video. The user does not hav[...]
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C665M-C (5/03) 23 3 Number Buttons – Use number buttons to input password. 4 ENTER Button – Select to apply password to level. 5 CLEAR Button – Clears password input area. To set a password: a. Use the left mouse button to select the password level. b. Click the number buttons to input a password. c. Click ENTER to save the password. To clear[...]
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24 C665M-C (5/03) P AN AND TIL T SETUP Set the pan and tilt protocol for the DX7000 by scrolling through the selections in the RX TYPE box. Figure 10. Pan and Tilt Protocol Menu Do the following to set PTZ protocol: a. Click the arrow to the right of the RX TYPE box. b. Scroll through the available selections. c. Click a selection.[...]
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C665M-C (5/03) 25 QUIT TO EXPLORER The DX7000 uses a Windows-based operating system. T o set a network address, add hardware, or change clock settings, click the Quit T o Explorer button. IMPORT ANT : Consult your network administrator to avoid possible network conflicts and to obtain the information required to setup a network address. UPDA TE PRO[...]
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26 C665M-C (5/03) FOR FUTURE USE PRESET BUTTONS CAMERA 01 193 Figure 11. PTZ Menus HOW TO OPERA TE PTZ To control pan, tilt, and zoom functions and to set patterns, preset tours, and presets, click the PTZ button located in the DISPLA Y mode. The PTZ mode appears on the screen. T o exit the PTZ mode and return to the DISPLA Y mode, click EXIT .[...]
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C665M-C (5/03) 27 PTZ CONTROLS To operate pan/tilt/zoom functions on controllable systems, do the following: a. Select a camera. • Move the cursor to a camera screen view . Double-click the left mouse button. •A single camera view appears on the screen and the camera number (1 through 16) appears in the center of the pan and tilt control (refer[...]
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28 C665M-C (5/03) PA TTERNS A pattern is a user -defined, viewable camera path with a definite beginning and end. The pattern can consist of any standard pan and tilt or lens commands. Once defined the pattern is easily activated with the press of an on-screen menu button. The pattern will run continuously until it is deactivated with another press[...]
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C665M-C (5/03) 29 PRESET TOURS A preset tour is a programmed sequential execution of preset positions. HOW TO PROGRAM A PRESET TOUR a. Click the PTZ button in the DISPLA Y Mode. The PTZ Mode appears. b. Click PRESET . c. Select a camera by moving the cursor to the desired camera view and clicking the left mouse button. d. Click the TOUR button to t[...]
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30 C665M-C (5/03) SEARCH To search recorded data on the hard disk drive or secondary device, click the SEARCH button located in the DISPLA Y mode. The SEARCH mode appears on the screen. T o exit the SEARCH mode and return to the DISPLA Y mode, click EXIT . Figure 13. Search Mode 1 Y ear and Month to Search – Displays year and month to search. 2 D[...]
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C665M-C (5/03) 31 5 Playback Buttons – Use to search saved data. PREVIOUS IMAGE GO TO THE FIRST IMAGE RECORDED ON HDD STOP NEXT IMAGE GO T O LAST IMAGE RECORDED ON HDD PLA YBACK F AST PLA YBACK 00953 6 Eject Button – Ejects CD-RW . 7 Primary/Secondary Device Button – Search button for backup (secondary) storage device. It appears only if CD-R[...]
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32 C665M-C (5/03) DA TE/TIME SEARCH a Press the Camera button. b Use the arrow buttons to select the year and date to search. c Select the day to search. Days with recordings are highlighted with a yellow circle. The selected day is highlighted with a green circle. d Use the arrow buttons to select the hour and minute to search. e Use the playback [...]
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C665M-C (5/03) 33 INDEX SEARCH a Click the INDEX SEARCH button. b The Index Data List appears. Select the event type (motion or sensor) to search. Enter the ST ART TIME and END TIME of search. Click the Camera button. Select a camera to view . Depending on the amount of data it may take several minutes before an Index List is displayed. Double-clic[...]
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34 C665M-C (5/03) HOW TO COPY TO A BACKUP DEVICE To backup data to an external device, click the COPY button located in the DISPLA Y mode. NOTE: The COPY button appears only if a backup device is installed and BACKUP mode, located in the SPEED SETUP menu, is selected. INITIA TE DX7000 COPY BUTTON IMPORT ANT : The copy button will not appear in the [...]
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C665M-C (5/03) 35 BACKUP WINDOW Figure 17. Backup (COPY) Window 1 SELECT DRIVE Box – Lists drives with files available for backup. 2 STORED ITEMS Box – Lists all files stored in the selected drive. 3 ADD Button – Adds stored files to ITEMS TO BACKUP box. 4 ITEMS TO BACKUP Box – Lists files selected for backup. 5 CLEAR ALL Button – Clears [...]
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36 C665M-C (5/03) HOW TO BACKUP (COPY) TO THE CD-RW DRIVE a. From the DISPLA Y mode of the DX7000, click the COPY button. The SETUP mode appears. NOTE: If the COPY button is not available, it has not been initiated. Refer to the Initiate DX7000 Copy Button section of this manual. b. Click the COPY button. The backup window appears. c. Select a driv[...]
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C665M-C (5/03) 37 REMOTE SITE SOFTW ARE DESCRIPTION Free remote site software is included with the DX7000 to provide remote site viewing of live and recorded video. The software is compatible with Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows XP , and Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 6. Figure 19. DX7000 Series Remote User Software Installation Menu IMPORT ANT : Mi[...]
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38 C665M-C (5/03) Figure 20. Setup Screen 1 Date and T ime Indicator – Displays current date and time on the local machine. 2 SITE NAME Box – Enters the name of the site. 3 ADDRESS Box – Inputs the IP address or phone number of site. 4 P ASSWORD Box – Use only if the DX7000 registered site is CLIENT USER password-protected. The password mus[...]
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C665M-C (5/03) 39 7 USE BEEP Selection Box and Slider Bar – Beeps when Motion is detected. 8 OVERLA Y MODE Box – Select NON-OVERLA Y MODE if your PC video card does not support multi-layering. 9 EXIT Button – Exits setup screen. 10 SELECT CHANNEL Selection Boxes and Buttons – Selects cameras to view . 11 REGISTERED SITE LIST Box and Buttons[...]
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40 C665M-C (5/03) Figure 21. Online Mode 1 Date and T ime Indicator – Displays current date and time. 2 SEARCH Button – Plays back and searches recordings by date and time. 3 PTZ Control Button – Controls pan, tilt, and zoom functions. 4 CONNECT/DISCONNECT Button – Connects to the domain site or disconnects from the domain site. 5 A VI Butt[...]
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C665M-C (5/03) 41 6 RELA Y OUTPUT Buttons – T urn relays connected to DX7000 DVR ON/OFF . 7 DOMAIN/IP ADDRESS T ext Box – Displays address of domain site. 8 SITE NAME T ext Box – Displays name of domain site. 9 Screen Division Buttons Single camera display Displays cameras 1-9 Not available in non-overlay mode Quad display , cameras 1-4 Displ[...]
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42 C665M-C (5/03) Figure 22. PTZ Controls DOWN CAMERA RIGHT UP LEFT 00949 REMOTE SOFTW ARE PTZ CONTROL MODE To operate pan/tilt/zoom functions on controllable systems, do the following: a. Select a camera. • Move the cursor to a camera screen view and double-click the left mouse button. •A single camera view appears on the screen and the camera[...]
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C665M-C (5/03) 43 PA TTERN A pattern is a user -defined, viewable camera path with a definite beginning and end. The pattern can consist of any standard pan and tilt or lens commands. Once defined the pattern is easily activated with the press of an on-screen menu button. The pattern will run continuously until it is deactivated with another press [...]
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44 C665M-C (5/03) PRESETS A preset is a user -defined camera position using pan and tilt, zoom, and focus commands. The DX7000 Series DVR has programming capacity for 12 preset locations. NOTE: The selected camera is indicated by the number displayed in the center of the PTZ controls. Refer to Figure 22. HOW TO MOVE TO A PRESET a. Click the PTZ but[...]
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C665M-C (5/03) 45 Figure 23. Pattern and Preset Bars PA TTERN BAR PRESET BAR FOR FUTURE USE PRESET BUTTONS CAMERA 01 196 PRESET TOURS A preset tour is a programmed sequential execution of preset positions from the DX7000 DVR. HOW TO RUN A PRESET TOUR a. Click the PTZ button in the DISPLA Y Mode. The PTZ Mode appears. b. Click PRESET . c. Click the [...]
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46 C665M-C (5/03) Figure 24. Search Mode 1 Date and T ime Indicator – Displays current date and time. 2 Search Date Selection Boxes – Selects month and year to search video. 3 Search T ime Selection Boxes – Selects the time (hour and minute) to search video. 4 Selected Camera Selection Box – Reviews video of selected camera. 5 Select Drive [...]
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C665M-C (5/03) 47 7 Copy and Print Buttons – Saves a recorded image to a diskette, prints an image, or creates and saves an A VI file to a backup storage device. 8 EXIT Button – Exits search screen. 9 Playback Control Buttons 10 Use this button if the time stamp is not visible. The background color of the recording time will change. Available b[...]
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48 C665M-C (5/03) SELECT DA TE AND TIME a. Enter the year and month in the SEARCH DA TE selection boxes. Click the up or down arrow buttons to make a selection. b. Enter the hour and minute in the SEARCH DA TE selection boxes. Click the arrow buttons up or down to make a selection. c. Select drive. d. Select the date from the calendar . Dates with [...]
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C665M-C (5/03) 49 Figure 25. Emergency Agent Window Emergency Agent software alerts the remote site client of any triggered alarm at the surveillance site. When an alarm is triggered, a pop-up widow appears on the monitor of the remote site client. The window displays a detailed list (date and time) of all images recorded during the alarmed event. [...]
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50 C665M-C (5/03) HOW TO INST ALL THE EMERGENCY AGENT SOFTWARE a. Start Windows. b. Close all programs, including any anti-virus programs. c. Insert the Remote Users Software CD into the CD-ROM drive. d. The Windows Setup wizard starts. Follow the instructions that appear . e. The DX7000 Series software installation program appears. Click the Emerg[...]
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C665M-C (5/03) 51 BACKUP VIEWER SOFTW ARE Use the Backup Viewer software to search images stored on backup media, DA T tape, or DVD disc. HOW TO INST ALL THE BACKUP VIEWER a. Start Windows. b. Close all programs, including any anti-virus programs. c. Insert the Remote Users Software CD into the CD-ROM drive. d. The Windows Setup wizard starts. Foll[...]
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52 C665M-C (5/03) Figure 26. Backup Viewer 1 Date and T ime Indicator – Displays current date and time. 2 Y ear and Month Selection Boxes – Displays the year and month to search. Use the up and down arrows to select a date. 3 Day Search Selection Box – Days with recordings are highlighted with a yellow circle. The day selected is highlighted [...]
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C665M-C (5/03) 53 6 EXIT Button – Exits Backup Viewer . 7 Playback Buttons 8 Eject Button – CDRW eject button. It appears only if DX7000CD is installed. 9 A VI Button – Creates and saves an AVI file to a selected drive. 10 Print Button – Prints image. 11 FDD Button – Saves recorded image to a 3.5-inch diskette. 12 Zoom/Contrast/Brightness[...]
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54 C665M-C (5/03) b b c c d d e e a a BACKUP VIEWER DA TE/TIME SEARCH a Press the Camera button. b Use the arrow buttons to select the year and date to search. c Select the day to search. Days with recordings are highlighted with a yellow circle. The selected day is highlighted with a green circle. d Use the arrow buttons to select the hour and min[...]
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C665M-C (5/03) 55 a b BACKUP VIEWER INDEX SEARCH a Click the INDEX SEARCH button. b The Index Data List appears. Select the event type (motion or sensor) to search. Enter the ST ART TIME and END TIME of search. Click the Camera button. Select a camera to view . Depending on the amount of data it may take several minutes before an Index List is disp[...]
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56 C665M-C (5/03) WA TERMARK TOOL The Watermark tool allows you to verify if an original image has been alter ed. The Watermarking Viewer software is available on the Remote Site Software CD. If the image has not been altered the following message will appear in the lower left corner of the window: “The Image has not been altered.” Refer to Fig[...]
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C665M-C (5/03) 57 Figure 30. The Image Has Not Been Altered Figure 31. The Image Has Been Altered[...]
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58 C665M-C (5/03) SPECIFICA TIONS ELECTRICAL/VIDEO Input V oltage: 100-240 V AC switchable, 50/60 Hz Signal System: NTSC/P AL CPU & RAM DX7008: Celeron ® , 128 MB DX7016: Pentium ® III, 128 MB Resolution NTSC: 320 x 240 P AL: 384 x 288 Compression: M-JPEG Compressed Image Size: 352 x 240; average 6 KB V ideo Inputs: 8 or 16, depending on mode[...]
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C665M-C (5/03) 59 W ARRANTY AND RETURN INFORMA TION W ARRANTY Pelco will repair or replace, without charge, any merchandise proved defective in material or workmanship for a period of one year after the date of shipment. Exceptions to this warranty are as noted below: • Five years on Pelco manufactured cameras (CC3500/CC3600/CC3700 and MC3500/MC3[...]
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