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MaJa

MaJa

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Sorry if this in not in the right forum, I can never decide where to put things! Moderator feel free to move it.

Still working on getting the shop setup. Previously I had my camera mounted on the ceiling and ran the cord down the wall. I was wondering what everyone else was doing??

I've seen the arms at shows, any resources for that or did anyone build their own??

Course, you know I love photos, lol! Thanks!
 
I thought about building my own, I thought about the ceiling mount too.
I have dry wall ceilings was not keen on making holes ( do not know why ) and you still had to run wires. Figured I did not need to re-invent the wheel. I finally got the Wizard beam mount. It was a no fuss install. Drill hole in table for camera power cable and usb cable which go inside the beam. I put my cpu & printer under the table so all that is on top is the mouse keyboard & monitor. Took all of about an hour to unpack & put it up.

I did not want to have to run the power supply in the ceiling or up the wall. It ook a shorter USB cable than if I had run it up the wall or let it dangle down on its own. The beam is curved so the distance for the cable is shorter..
good luck with what ever you go with. Let us know what you come up with
 
Ours is mounted to the ceiling so we can get the maximum width, but the custom manufactured "power poles" sold by the visualization companies are also very nice. I worked with those while volunteering at the trade shows, and was impressed with how well they performed. They go into a hole in your counter and are adjustable in many directions. The wires go inside the pole, so you don't even see them.

In most cases, you wont even need to amplify the signal. (it will be less than 16 feet max usually, depending where the PC is)
 
Here's what we did! The ones you can buy are great, but starting out I'm counting every penny and making sure it's spent in the best place.

We went to a tire / muffler store and had them bend a pipe for us. Then AJ spray painted it black. We fed used the mounting bracket on the camera, ran the wires down the pipe and drilled a hole to allow the power supply for the camera to be zip-tied to it (wouldn't fit in the pipe). They welded the plate on there for us and we used a 2x4 to mount it to the side of the table.

I think it looks great and the total cost was less then $90! Cha-CHING, lol.
 

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very good!~
 
Fantastic! The shop looks very nice, too.

Best of luck in your new home!

Mike
 
Looks good, Mary. We have 17' ceilings with a dropped lighting track, so we powered from and attached to the track. The wire runs down one wall to the camera. It is not a perfect solution, but it gets the camera up high enough to capture large artwork. When the camera freezes, as it still sometimes does, someone has to stand on the design table to restart it. We've had the system for several years, and as you can see, we still have some bugs to work out.
 
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