Precision CAM Cowcam, User Manual

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TROUBLESHOOTING: CAMERA IS “ DEAD SPINNING ”
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Dead spinning is when the camera rotates continually on its own and you are
unable to make it stop. The two major causes for this are poor signal and
improper joystick calibration.
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To see if your joystick is out of calibration, watch the screen of the joystick
controller, is there an arrow showing on the display even though your not
touching the joystick? If there is, this means you need to re
- calibrate the
joystick. To re - calibrate, just unplug power from the controller, and plug it back
in being careful to not touch the joystick. Once it ’ s powered back on, move the
joystick and watch to see if the arrow on the screen goes away once you release
it. If it does, the issue will be resolved. It
’ s now just a matter of setting the con-
troller to the correct camera ID and moving the joystick to stop the dead spin.
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If re - calibrating your joystick does not help, you more than likely have a signal
issue. If this is the case, please refer to the previous section, or follow the trou-
bleshooting flowcharts at the back of the book.
TROUBLESHOOTING: OTHER COMMON PROBLEMS
AND SOLUTIONS
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Hard reset: Many issues can be fixed by simply unplugging everything at the
house and barn, waiting a few minutes, then plug it all back in.
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TV says no signal: Check if the TV is set to the correct input setting.
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Picture is in black and white during the day: Make sure the TV is set to AV or
composite not component.
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Camera changes to black and white mode during the day: If the area you are
using the camera in is to dark the camera may think it
’ s night mode and change
to black and white. To fix this you can change the day/night sensitivity settings
in the camera menu. Please refer to the manual that came with the camera to
see how to do this.
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Getting static or crackling noise through TV speakers even though you don't
have an audio mod: Disconnect the RCA cables from red and white audio
connectors on the receiver box.
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Sound only comes through one of your two speakers: If you have a RCA cable
with only 2 connectors you will have to switch it out with a cable that has all 3,
or you can use an RCA splitter at the TV to feed the audio signal into both audio
ports of the TV.