Panasonic BL-C140A - 1 year review!

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I relied on this forum for getting this camera (Panasonic BL-C140A) -so now I’m posting an update on it’s operation…simply awesome and especially for the price point…I couldn’t have done better in my opinion and wanted to share that…

I have 2 of these cameras and both purchased for about $190 US. One camera has a cover over it but exposed to the winds and blowing snow/rain/ice and the other is 100% completely open and exposed on the roof of my house… The one I my house is mounted on top of the roof with absolutely no protection - I drilled a few extra drainage holes and taped a few of the potential openings closed with metal tape… It was installed last October on my anemometer mast and went through an entire Colorado winter with snow/ice and below freezing temperatures…so far this summer we’ve seen over a 100 degrees and probably much higher above the asphalt roof…I have experienced no problems what so ever and I can say at this time fully weather proof as there was some discussion about if it would hold up - so far no glitches!!! I like this camera!

Here are links to both Cams and they run during daylight hours…

http://westwoodsweather.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=7&Itemid=10

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I was thinking of using the Panasonic BL-C140A although they are hard to find in Australia. What I wanted to do was use the Timer Trigger to FTP a still image to my Website say every 10 minutes or so during daylight.

Looking in the manual this all looks feasible but there was one thing I was not certain about. Under Image Buffer Frequency 1s is in the window but I could not find the range of this control anywhere e.g. can it be set to the second or is the control much coarser.

If someone could look this up would be appreciative.

Chris

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