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| Stealth Cam STC-SLB2B Patroller 2.0-Megapixel Security Camera and Floodlight, Black | 
 enlarge | Brand: Stealth
Category: Home Improvement
List Price: $179.99
Buy New: $121.53
You Save: $58.46 (32%)
Avg. Customer Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 16905
Color: Black
Media: Tools & Hardware
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4
Dimensions (in): 12.5 x 8.5 x 6
MPN: STC-SLC2B
Model: STC-SLB2B
UPC: 813628076117
EAN: 0813628076117
ASIN: B00159XJ0S
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Features:
| • | Built-in 2.0 Megapixel color digital security camera | | • | Motion activates light and camera to shoot up to 2 images per triggering or 10 seconds of video | | • | Powerful 500 watt security light with ultra bright halogen bulb | | • | Illuminate intruders and capture their image and suspect activity | | • | Time and date stamp on every still image |
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Product Description
Not just lights, but camera action! Catch 'em with Stealth Cam Patroller Security Light / Camera! Ordinary motion-trigger lights come on and hope the sneaky will be deterred. This shows you who the intruder is in a digital color photo or video! So you've got not just a scare-factor, but evidence. The next level in true security: 2.0-megapixel color digital camera is triggered along with the brilliant 500W halogen light; Camera can be set to capture 3 still images per trigger, or 10 sec. video; Time and date stamping; Light can be set to shine for 1-5 minutes per trigger; Has 16MB built-in memory and SD card slot so you can use your own memory card up to 2GB; Camera's glass lens is IR coated, view angle 52, fixed focus from about 5' outward; Hardwiring required. Comes with mounting bracket and USB cable; State Color. Security that works overtime, a genuinely effective protector. Get yours now! WARNING: This item cannot be shipped to Canada. Please check your State, County and City laws for restrictions before ordering this product. Stealth Cam Patroller Security Light / Camera
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| Customer Reviews:
 Moderately Useful October 3, 2008
Bought the Stealth Cam at Costco because of their easy return policy. Overall I'm happy with it.
I'd recommend plugging the light's wires into an extension cord so you can play with the 2 buttons and LCD screen in the comfort of your chair instead of on top of a ladder. The navigation is like a bad LCD watch where you cycle thru the choices multiple times in attempt to set the time, camera mode, etc.
Pros:
- Great image quality. Very happy with the quality of the images. Got lots of photos of the top of folk's heads and squirrels.
- The halogen is plenty bright. The night shots look more like day shots. I can only tell because there is no shadow and the concrete is blindly white in the "night" photos.
- The camera automatically writes over the old pictures once the SD card is full. They say they only support 2 GB SD cards so I guess using a larger card isn't going to work. That said you should be able to store many weeks of photos with the 1 GB included card.
Cons:
- The lack of an internal battery means the settings get wiped every time the power gets cut. In my case we have it powered on a circuit with a light switch so if we accidently hit the light switch the time/date stamp is reset. The default time stamp then resets to 06/01/2011 (even weireder you can't manually reset the time date stamp past 2011 so in 4 years you'll never be able to set the correct date).
- The motion sensor housing is tied to the light. It would have been better if the 2 pieces were independent so that moving one wouldn't affect the other (I guess they want to ensure the camera will always have proper lighting, but in my case I don't want to trigger the light until the person is right below the camera). Currently only about 1 in 5 shots gets the person in the frame.
- I tried using the EyeFi SD card (a cool SD memory card that can automatically send the pictures to your PC via your WiFi network. It works great in my Canon camera, but in the Stealth Cam the LCD screen just blinks. Calling Stealth Cam TS said that this is an unsupported. Too bad, it would allow for remote montiroing while travelling and it is a lot easier than dragging out the ladder every few months to pull the SD card out and bring it back into the house just to see if there was any suspicious behavior going on).
 Very difficult to set up. Needs complete redesign October 1, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This product needs a lot of serious redesign work.
In its favor, I will say that if the SD memory card fills up, it will start overwriting the oldest images first. That way, you don't have to break out the ladder every week or so if nothing noteworthy has happened. And a 1 or 2 GB card takes a long time to fill up, depending on how many photos you want taken from each motion activation.
The other reviewers who mentioned the awkwardness of setting up this security are dead right. It shouldn't be as difficult to set up the time, date, number of photos per trigger, etc. as Stealth Cam has made it. The instructions tell you that you need to pushing two buttons simultaneously to access the menu for setting up the time and date, but in fact you have to press one button a little ahead of the other, BUT THE INSTRUCTIONS NEVER TELL YOU THAT.
And why, oh WHY, didn't Stealth Cam rotate the tiny little LCD set-up screen on the bottom of the motion sensor by 180 degrees so that you can read it when facing the security camera? The screen itself isn't much bigger than a postage stamp, and you have to be a contortionist who can twist his head 180 degrees like Linda Blair in "The Exorcist" in order to view the various icons and tiny words on the LCD screen right side up during set-up. And it would also help if that tiny LCD screen was back-lit. As it is now, I need a magnifying glass, a flashlight, be up on a ladder with my head twisted completely around, AND try to read - and make sense of - an incomplete, confusingly written, and VERY poorly printed instruction sheet. Did ANYONE at Stealth Cam actually try to perform their own set-up while perched on a ladder?!?!
And it would also help if the camera and floodlight could be swiveled side to side and not just up and down. The way it's designed now, the camera and the floodlight are joined together by a common bracket that's part of the electrical box cover. So you're limited to monitoring whatever direction the outdoor electrical junction box happens to be facing.
The camera itself REALLY needs a faster shutter speed. I have put up an actual photo as an example. Most of the photos were so blurry you literally couldn't tell if you were looking at a man or a woman. Anyone who's walking toward the camera in anything less than direct sun is blurred enough by their movement that you wouldn't recognize them if you didn't already know them. If you did manage to get photos of burglars or vandals, the shutter speed isn't fast enough to produce a police sketch.
Poor Choice September 23, 2008
Very poor design. Extremely hard to program. Locks up and has to be turned off for 15 minutes. Then reprogramed after power on. Must be re-programed in a very akward position. Returned for refund if you purchased.
 I like it but it's not perfect August 10, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This works very well but with drawbacks. Camera resolution is excellent even in "low res" mode. Video mode also works well. Takes up to 2 gig SD memory card which can hold an awesome number of photos. Memory never fills up - just overwrites. Doesn't look like a camera so "visitors" probably think it's just a motion sensor light. Has cover over the controls to hide them. Problems - only swivels up and down. Requires "junction box" type mount. Camera isn't fast to activate and often misses a moving car or person. Very hard to program especially when you're upside down on a ladder and the display is "inverted" from what it should be. Doesn't program according to the manual. Manual is not detailed enough. Manufacturer web site doesn't even list this item! No backup battery so loses date-time stamp with power failure. No way to adjust IR sensitivity. The other more detailed review is excellent and I agree with everything he says but I'm happier than he is with this gizmo. I bought two and I would like to buy more.
Camera field of view narrower than Motion Detector field of view July 4, 2008
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
Camera field of view narrower than Motion detector field of view
I am disappointed with this device. The only good thing I can say about it is its 500 Watt Halogen floodlight. Other than that, the following are the problems I have noticed:
1- The instructions manual is just one pamphlet that briefly describes how to install and program the device. It has the address of a web site that when you go there, it does not have this model listed, nor any information about it. On the box itself there is an address for another web site which has this product model, but only carries a promotional brochure and picture. It does not even have the instructions pamphlet that comes with the product, let alone any more information.
2- It has a small LCD screen for programming. It is at the bottom of the device, but it has an orientation that makes it very difficult to read and do the programming. When you are on a ladder facing the device (a logical position, because most likely, you have installed it on a surface that you are standing in front of), the screen is in reverse position and you see everything upside-down. Standing on a ladder and trying to read an upside-down LCD panel under the camera is problematic. Instructions lead you to push two buttons at once and holding others for 2 seconds which is not easy doing in such an awkward position.
3- Although a day-light sensor will keep the lamp from coming on during the day, the camera will still function. There is no on-off switch for the camera portion of this device, so it keeps shooting pictures/videos during the day. This makes it unsuitable if you want to watch only during the dark hours.
4- Turning off power (e.g. power failure) would stop the device's internal clock, so you have to drag the ladder out and stand at an uncomfortable position to reset the time/date.
5- Its most disturbing attribute is that its photography field of view is much narrower than its motion detection view. Since it senses motion in a wider angle than it can take pictures, very often you see images with no intruders. This is because the subject was at an angle with the device that its motion was detected, yet out of the view of the camera.
6- One of its other disturbing attributes is that there is a significant delay between the time it detects the motion and the time it shoots the picture. Overlooking a 25-foot long driveway, only when someone walks-in at a very slow pace, his/her photo might be taken. Walking at a normal pace straight toward the camera, the delay makes it such that the subject has already left the camera's field of view when it shoots the picture.
Overall, its photography features in relation to its motion detection is very poor and unsatisfactory. But if you are looking only for a motion activated powerful floodlight, this seems to be a good choice, though expensive for that one purpose.
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