Came up with the idea to increase the lighting by making an IR LED spotlight that will sit on top of the camera ice cream container weather housing.

Went through my CCTV stuff and found a few of these lenses with IR lighting.

 

 

 

 

 

 

CCTV camera lens with IR LED’s – perfect.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The 12V power cable setup is very convenient with in/out DC connectors to allow the CCTV camera and IR lights to be connected to the same 12V power cable.

 

 

 

 

 

The actual lens assembly is not needed so let’s remove that.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

That’s the actual lens sitting on top of the main unit.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Now we need to make a mount for the IR light.

Found a bit of scrap plywood.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Measure and mark the mounting panel.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Over to the homemade 8” band saw.

This band saw is powered with a washing machine motor.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ready to start cutting.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thinking…what’s next?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Using a pine block as the base.