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Harvey51
Sep 08, 2016Explorer
The camera arrived today!
I hooked the monitor up on my work desk and it isn't working. The monitor sits there drawing about 20 mA from a power supply set at 12 volts. Screen totally black. Pressing the power button doesn't change anything. Connecting the green wire to the power causes the screen to flash blue every three seconds - the current jumps to 120 mA with the blue flash, and "AV2" displays in the upper right corner. This doesn't change to AV1 when I press the V1/V2 button. Pressing the menu button does not change the picture.
Hooking up the camera (it draws 70 MA or so) to the input that must be V2 causes a picture to flash every three seconds. The picture has a pattern of thick yellow lines - something like a big F on the left and a horizontally flipped F on the right side. Backup guide lines? I can't make out what the rest of the picture flashing is but it changes when I put my hand or piece of paper in front of the camera - the paper is recognizable in the quick flash. Looks like the camera is working but the monitor only works for half a second every three seconds.
I sent this story to the Amazon seller. Any thoughts on what could be going on here?
I hooked the monitor up on my work desk and it isn't working. The monitor sits there drawing about 20 mA from a power supply set at 12 volts. Screen totally black. Pressing the power button doesn't change anything. Connecting the green wire to the power causes the screen to flash blue every three seconds - the current jumps to 120 mA with the blue flash, and "AV2" displays in the upper right corner. This doesn't change to AV1 when I press the V1/V2 button. Pressing the menu button does not change the picture.
Hooking up the camera (it draws 70 MA or so) to the input that must be V2 causes a picture to flash every three seconds. The picture has a pattern of thick yellow lines - something like a big F on the left and a horizontally flipped F on the right side. Backup guide lines? I can't make out what the rest of the picture flashing is but it changes when I put my hand or piece of paper in front of the camera - the paper is recognizable in the quick flash. Looks like the camera is working but the monitor only works for half a second every three seconds.
I sent this story to the Amazon seller. Any thoughts on what could be going on here?
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