First time with an Axis Camera, need help getting started

[dellagd]

Are you connecting the camera to a laptop using a crossover cable and setting the laptops ip per the instructions?

[ctccromer]

Originally Posted by dellagd

Are you connecting the camera to a laptop using a crossover cable and setting the laptops ip per the instructions?

Had not tried that yet; wanted to just establish a power connection before i tried anything on the laptop. Will the lights not turn on if it's plugged into the power supply but not my laptop?

[nathan_hui]

Power light status ring should light up regardless of ethernet signal.

[dellagd]

Based on your agreeing to the photos attached to an above post, Im guessing you're using a M10 series camera.

Manual here: http://www.axis.com/files/manuals/um...40_en_1203.pdf

Anyway, it details the three LEDs on the back on page 8. Are any of these LED's on the back (not the status ring or whatever, which the manual says the M1011 does not have) lighting?

[Mark McLeod]

Originally Posted by dellagd

Anyway, it details the three LEDs on the back on page 8.

The first picture in post #4 is of the power LEDs on the back of the camera.

[dellagd]

Originally Posted by Mark McLeod

The first picture in post #4 is of the power LEDs on the back of the camera.

Specifically, the topmost of the three LEDs is the power indicator and should light if there is any power to the camera regardless of settings.

[ctccromer]

Originally Posted by dellagd

Specifically, the topmost of the three LEDs is the power indicator and should light if there is any power to the camera regardless of settings.

Thats what we thought too and it is NOT lighting up when the power cable is plugged in, and we tested everything imaginable -- the cables ARE giving power.
So I guess our camera is fried, and we'll be ordering one tomorrow

Thanks for the help everyone

[dellagd]

Originally Posted by ctccromer

Thats what we thought too and it is NOT lighting up when the power cable is plugged in, and we tested everything imaginable -- the cables ARE giving power.
So I guess our camera is fried, and we'll be ordering one tomorrow

Thanks for the help everyone

Was there any damage done to the camera prior?

I believe you said you reversed the polarity at one point, correct?

It cant hurt to open it up and see whats inside at this point if you're about to junk it. Who knows, maybe there's just a loose wire somewhere.

[ctccromer]

Originally Posted by dellagd

Was there any damage done to the camera prior?

I believe you said you reversed the polarity at one point, correct?

It cant hurt to open it up and see whats inside at this point if you're about to junk it. Who knows, maybe there's just a loose wire somewhere.

It's an M1011 camera we got our Rookie year (2011), but we never really used it. So we have no idea how it wouldve gotten hurt before today, but yes in our efforts to get power to it, we did reverse the polarities, which didn't work either. But yeah, maybe we'll open it up tomorrow

[dellagd]

You wouldn't have happened to have one of these?

http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprogr...onnector-issue