Crest Electronics CDVS-5400 SERIES User manual

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1. Precautions
Cautions & Warnings
- Be sure to turn off the power before installation.
- Avoid rough handling or mechanical shock.
- Keep off 20 cm distance with other machines or electronic products.
- Keep away from direct rays of the sun or heater or similar devices.(it causes fire)
- Don’t put things such as vase, cup, cosmetics, bottle etc. on this product. (it causes fire, an electronic shock
hazard or an injury by falling)
- Don’t block the ventilating holes of this product with a kind of metal(ex : coins, hairpin, metal plate etc.) or
inflammable stuff(ex : match, paper etc.).(It causes malfunction of the product, fire and electronic shock hazard.)
- Don’t put a heavy-weight things on this product.(It causes an injury by falling)
- Fully insert power plug at outlet. (Uncertain connection causes fire.)
- Wipe smoothly with using dried cloth to clean the product. Don’t use any chemical products or detergent. This
may change the color of the product and spoil its surface .
- Stop using and turn off the power when odd smells or smokes comes out from the product. Then call your
nearest customer service. (continuous using may causes fire, an electronic shock hazard.)
- Don’t touch the power plug & cable with wet hand. (It causes electronic shock hazard.)
- Don’t pull power plug out by force. (Damaged power plug causes electronic shock hazard.)
- Keep away from the place of dust, humidity, soot when you install. These may cause malfunction of the product.
Be place dehumidifier near the product, remove dust from the fan of ventilate holes with compressed air every 3
months.(Dust & others may cause fire and electronic shock hazard.)
- Replace or clean front filter once of 3 months.
- Don’t drop or impact to the product.
- Keep this product away from strong magnetic fields or mechanical vibration.(It causes malfunction)
- Don’t install the product to extremely cold place.
- Install the product well-ventilated place.
- Don’t open the cover of product at your disposal. (It causes fire, an electronic shock hazard.)
- Don’t change the power supply switch at your disposal. (It causes malfunction and damage)
- Don’t press the product when front door open. (It causes transformation or damage of Front Door.)
- Put another supportable stuff not to damage BNC board. BNC board could be broken or damaged by the weight
of BNC cable.
- It causes danger of explosion if battery is incorrectly replaced.
- Replace only with the same or equivalent type recommended by the manufacturer.
- Dispose of used batteries according to the manufacturer’s instructions.
- Adjust power input switch correctly.(110V or 220V)
- Use stable transformer where expected unstable power supply.
- Ask your customer service when you add more devices on this product(ex: HDD, Back-up device)

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2. Installation System
Open the box and make sure that the following accessories are supplied. (Some part and design could be
different according to model.)
2.1 Removing Package.
NetSafe DVR
Doorkeys
Pan/Tilt Cable(RS-485)
Keyboard Mouse
Power Cable
User’s Manual
Install CD
User’s Manual

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2.2 Rear panel of System
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a. Camera Input (CH1~CH16) / Output (CH1~CH16)
b. Camera 75Ohm Terminator
c. Control Output (Com:4port, Control:16port)
d. Sensor Input (Com:4port, Sensor:16port)
e. AC Power Input (AC 110 ~ 220V)
f. PS/2 Mouse Port
g. PS/2 Keyboard Port
h. USB Port
i. Com A Serial Port
j. LPT(Printer) Port
k. Com B Serial Port
l. Line Out 1
m. Line In / Line Out2
n. MIC In
o. Game Port
p. VGA Out
q. TV Out (Composite Out)
r. RS422/485 (RX Connection Port)
s. LAN Port

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2.3 Connecting outer Devices
- Connect keyboard & mouse (included in the box)
Connect keyboard and mouse at the correct place like a picture.(picture shows keyboard
connection, upper port is for mouse connection)
- Connect Camera (cable is not included)
Connect camera cable to channel input port.
- Connect communication cable(cable is not included)
Connect LAN cable or public phone line(if installed) for using client program (such as
center & i-DVR).
- Connect RCA output(if available) jack & Pan/Tilt cable.
Connect RCA output jack line for outer monitor and Pan/Tilt camera control cable.
- Connect Power supply cable
Connect power supply cable. Check again Voltage switch before connect cable.(110V or
220V)

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2.4 Connect Pan/Tilt control
485 Signal Line (+)
Signal Line (-)
a ground
RX LED (Green)
TX LED (Red)
Operation LED (Green)
- Connect to PAN/TILT Receiver (RS-485 Signal line)
- Caution : When connect, pay attention (+), (-) polarity
of signal line
- Only when Operation LED is
‘On’ state, image appears
normally.

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2.5 Connecting PSTN, ISDN, Leased Line & LAN
Following picture shows how you connect to a communication line. It shows about LAN connection and
PSTN (external modem). When you have modem in your system, you don’t need to use COM2 port for
connection.
Connecting to COM 2 port
( 9 PIN )
LAN port
Ethernet
D.S.U(Modem)
Printer
Client pc for Remote control
Leased Line (ISDN)
A/C ADAPTER
D.S.U(Modem)
A/C ADAPTER
RS-232(25Pin)
COM2

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2.6 Connecting Loopback output (Camera 75 Ohm Terminator)
Each channel’s current input image can directly out to monitor by ‘Ch out’ port. 16 ch outputs are available.
To use this function, connect cable then adjust dip switch.
ON ON - ‘On’ : not connected outer monitor.
- ‘Off’ : connected with outer monitor
1 ----------------------------------------------------16
- For a normal image output of each channel, adjust dip switch as ‘On’ status when there are no connection
with monitor.
2.7 Connecting Control Output
Con.
COM Control Out ( 1 ~ 16)
(+)
External Power Supply ( DC 12V)
Siren, Alarm, Outside Relays
(-)
When a sensor triggered or motion detected, warning or alarm signal is output through the each port of control
out.(need to setup before using. See P35). If devices connected correctly, it works by the output signal from control
out port. (See the picture for connection)
- Use 12V, below 300mA. For controlling lights or other devices, use another external relay.
2.8 Connecting External Sensor
Sen.
COM Sensor Input ( 1 ~ 16)
16 sensor connections are available. Usually sensor’s one of signal lines connect to com port and connect the
other signal line to a desired sensor input port(1-16).
- Set “NC”, “NO” Type at setup menu.(see p35)
- No power supply from the product. Use individual or provided power for each sensor.

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3. Surveillance Mode
When every connection is made, turn the power on. After loading OS, it automatically starts DVR program.
Initial screen is surveillance mode(see the picture below). In surveillance mode, it shows real time images of
each channel from a connected camera. Also user can control other functions with using function buttons.
3.1 Surveillance screen. b)
c)
a)
d)
e)
g)
f)
a) Shows current user.
b) Function Button : search, setup, backup, Pan/Tilt control, exit button.
c) Shows Current date and time.
d) Select Screen division : icons for selecting whole screen, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 13, 16 ch division.
e) Shows currently recording HDD partition status.
f) Shows connected control & sensor ‘s working status.(on/off)
g) Shows IP address of connected user’s.
* When program starts, it login as ‘default’ user. To add users or to use all function, must re-login as
‘Administrator’ (ID : Administrator, Password : none). See detail at 3.2.
- Initial screen division is set as 4 screen division. When system restarted by unexpected power failure or by
force, it remembers last information of screen division then shows last screen division.

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3.2 Login as Administrator
At the first time, program automatically login as default user. To use program with another user, user
information must be registered by Administrator. When DVR starts, login as ‘Administrator’ and add users and
allow permissions of each user. No password is set to Administrator. After login as Administrator, then
change the password and memorize it.
Click one of function
buttons.(except Auto
change button) If above message shows , press ‘Yes’
When ‘User Login’ shows up, type ‘Administrator’ in
user name and press ‘Ok’.(No password at first time)
After login as ‘Administrator’, Now user can use every
function of DVR.
* You can add user after login as ‘Administrator’. For more information about add
user see 5.14 e) on this manual.