X-Vision XC960DA User manual

Professional HD 960H Low Light
Varifocal Discreet Dome Camera
User Manual
Version 1
Thank you for purchasing the XC960DA camera from Xvision.
Please ensure that you read and understand this User Guide before operating the camera.
Please store this User Guide in an easily accessible location.
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Contents
1. Product Overview .................................................................................. 4
1.2 Package Contents .......................................................................... 4
2. Installaon ............................................................................................ 5
3. How to Operate the Camera .................................................................. 7
4. Camera Menu ........................................................................................ 7
4.1 Lens ............................................................................................... 8
4.2 Exposure ....................................................................................... 8
4.3 White Balance ............................................................................... 8
4.4 Backlight ........................................................................................ 9
4.5 Day/Night ...................................................................................... 9
4.6 DPC ................................................................................................ 10
4.7 Special ........................................................................................... 10
5. Specicaons ........................................................................................ 12

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Safety Precauons
1. Do not install the equipment in an environment with too much moisture, dust or smoke dust as this
may result in re or electric shock.
2. In the unlikely event that the equipment should malfuncon and emit an abnormal smell or smoke,
please immediately stop it, shut o the power and contact your supplier.
3. Please do not place this equipment near a heat source to avoid risk of re.
4. Please do not store, install and use this product in danger areas with inammable or explosive
substances.
5. Please make sure the power is turned o when installing the product.
6. Please ensure that you install the camera in an area with good venlaon.
7. When installing the camera, please make sure that it does not face any objects giving out strong lights
as this will damage the CCD of the camera.
8. Please do not use the camera in an environment where temperatures exceed either -20°C to +55°C.

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Thank you for purchasing the HD 960H XC960DA from Xvision. Please read through this manual carefully
and make sure you understand before operang the camera.
1.1 Features
• Sony 960H CCD Sensor
• Xvision X3K DSP
• Xvision 2.8 to 12mm HD Megapixel Lens for a viewing angle between 23 and 92°
• Advanced Wide Dynamic Range
• High Speed Digital Slow Shuer
• 3D Digital Noise Reducon
• Programmable High Light Suppression
• Tamper Resistant
• Designed for Wall or Ceiling Mount
1.2 Package Contents
The packaged box for the XC960DA comes with the following items:
• XC960DA Camera
• Screws
• Allen Key
• DC Plug with screw terminals
• Ceiling Mount Stencil
• User Manual
Should any of these items be missing, please contact your local distributor.
1. Product Overview
1. Product Overview

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1. Product Overview
2. Installaon
The XC960DA camera can be wall or ceiling mounted, so to install the camera, you will need to adjust the
lens to the desired angle.
1. To do this, twist the main camera to remove
from the camera base.
2. Li the main camera housing away frim the
camera base. Then, unscrew the camera housing
3. Press the clip and twist the base an-clockwise
to remove.
4. Use the installaon stencil or the base, to mark
out the holes in the wall/ceiling for drilling. When
placed, drill the holes.
6. Then, re-aach the main camera bracket to the
base. To do this, twist the camera bracket
clockwise unl you hear a click sound.
5. At this point, you can either feed the wires
through the side of the dome (as it comes in the
box) or feed them through the wall or ceiling. To
do this, you will need to break the middle of the
base (shown below) and then drill through the
wall/ceiling to put the wires through.

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7. Then, you can adjust the camera angle to
get the desired view. To do this, you will need
to loosen the screw located on the side of the
camera bracket (shown below). This will
enable you to adjust the camera angle 180°.
8. Lastly, re-aach the dome cover by twisng
clockwise onto the camera bracket.

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1. Product Overview
3. How to Operate the Camera
To operate the camera, rstly you will need to connect the BNC and DC sockets to the BNC and DC sockets
of a power supply and DVR or Monitor. If you wish to extend the cables, you can connect the DC and BNC
Sockets to the BNC/DC of a PNP cable/RG59 cable.
You can then connect the DC socket to a 12V DC Power Supply and the BNC socket to back of your
compable DVR or monitor.
BNC Socket for
video
DC Socket for
power
Joysck for entering camera
menu and navigang opons
1. Product Overview
4. Camera Menu
To access the camera menu, when the camera is on press the joysck buon. When the menu has
appeared, you will be presented with the following opons:
• Lens
• Exposure
• White Balance
• Backlight
• D/N (Day/Night)
• DPC
• Special
Up
Le
Down
Right

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4.1 Lens Opon: DC / Manual
Select the lens type from either DC or Manual. Use the joysck to navigate between the opons and
when on the desired opon, press the joysck in to select. Both opons have a sub-menu as follows:
DC: Brightness - adjust the brightness of the image between
0-255. Iris Speed - adjust the iris speed between 0-255.
Manual: Brightness - adjust the brightness of the image
between 0-255.
Return: Save / End and return to the previous menu.
4.2 Exposure Opon: Shuer / AGC / DWDR
The exposure menu allows you to adjust the shuer speed, Automac Gain Control (AGC) and the Digital
Wide Dynamic Range (DWDR) on the camera.
Shuer: Adjust the shuer speed to auto or choose from
the following shuer speeds (1/25, FLK, 1/50, 1/100, 1/2000,
1/5000, 1/10000).
AGC: Adjust the AGC to either Auto, Low, Middle or High.
DWDR: Turn the DWDR on or o. If you choose to turn it on,
you can adjust the sensivity level (0-63).
Return: Save / End and return to the previous menu.
4.3 White Balance Opon: AWB / ATW / An CRL / Manual
Adjust the White Balance and set the Automac White Balance (AWB), ATW, An Colour Rolling (An CRL)
and choose to set the white balance manually.
AWB: Set the white balance to Automac
ATW: Turns this funcon on so the camera will detect
the colour temperature automacally.
An CRL: Turn on the an colour rolling funcon
Manual: Set the white balance to manual. If this opon is
chosen, you will need to adjust the colour temperature.
To do this, adjust the colour temperature from Manual, Indoor
or Outdoor. In each of these opons you will need to
set the blue and red gain.
Return: Save / End and return to the previous menu.

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4.5 Day/Night Opon: D&N Auto / B&W / EXT / Colour
Day/Night: Set the camera to Day/Night mode. When selected, you can set the Day/Night mode to Auto,
Black and White, EXT or Colour.
D/N Auto: When choosing Auto you can adjust the lux
level from which the camera will switch from day to
night mode (0-255) and the delay from when the
camera reaches that lux level to turn to night mode
(0-30). You can also do this from night to day.
B/W: When choosing B/W you will put the cameras
image to black and white. You can also choose to turn
on the burst funcon, turn on the IR Smart and set
the IR level.
EXT: Choose the EXT funcon to set the day to night
funcon to be decided by external signals, for example
IR LEDs. Set the delay to (0-30 seconds) and night to
day funcon delay (0-30 secs).
Colour: Set the camera’s image to colour.
Return: Save / End and return to the previous menu.
4.4 Backlight Opon: O / BLC / HLC
This opon allows you adjust the advance backlight sengs, giving the following opons; Backlight
Compensaon (BLC), Highlight Compensaon (HLC), Day/Night, Black & White mode, EXT and Colour
Mode.
BLC: Select this opon to allow objects in front of
bright lights to be seen clearer, by making the background
darker. Once selected, you will be presented with a
further 2 opons; area select and state. Select the area gain
control (30-255), Height, Width (both 0-13), Le/Right
and Top/Boom (Both 0-5). You can also turn the state
on or o.
HLC: Select this opon to mask bright areas in an image,
for example, car headlights. Once selected, you can set the
sensivity level (0-240), set HLC to All Day or Mask Skip.
If you select Mask Skip, you can set the height, width,
le/right and top/boom of the masked areas between
0-15 values.

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4.6 DPC Opon: Start / DPC View / LS Value / Di / Area
Start: Once selected, you will be asked to cover the lens
and press the joysck in. Please note that this is for
factory use only, if iniated power the camera down
and then power the camera to back up.
DPC View: Turn the DPC View on or o.
LS Value: Set the shuer value for searching dead pixels
Di: Set the di. value for searching dead pixels
Area: Set the area of the DPC. There are areas to
adjust; HS, HE, VS and VE (0-255).
Return: Save / End and return to the previous menu.
4.7 Special Opon: Camera Title / Moon / Privacy / Park Line / Image Adjust
Cam Adjust / Display ID / Language / Version
The special opon allows you to adjust various sengs on the camera from camera tle, privacy masking,
moon detecon and language etc.
Camera Title: Turn the camera tle on or o. When choosing on,
you will be presented with an on screen keyboard to set the
camera tle. Move the joysck to navigate between the
leers/numbers and then press the joysck in to conrm
selecon.
Moon: Turn the moon detecon funcon on or o.
If set to on, you will be presented with the following opons:
Area Select: Select 1-4 areas
Area State: Turns the selected moon zone on or o
Height: 0-50
Width: 0-50
Top: 0-50
Boom: 0-50
Degree: 0-255
View: On or o
Privacy: Turn the privacy funcon on or o. If set to on, you
will be presented with the following opons:
Area Select: Select 1-8 areas
Area State: Turns the selected privacy zone on or o
Height: 0-255
Width: 0-255
Le/Right: 0-255
Top/Boom: 0-255
Colour: 0-15 - choose between 15 colour opons to show the masked areas.

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4.7 Special Connued...
Park Line: Turn the park line funcon on or o. This feature all the user to set on-screen parking lines
for vehicle use. If turned on, you will be presented with the following opons to adjust the parking lines’
posion and width:
LT: 0-255
LB: 0-255
RT: 0-255
RB: 0-255
F: 0-255
N: 0-255
T: 0-15
V1: 0-255
V2: 0-255
V3: 0-255
Image Adjust: The image adjust opons allows you to change various sengs to create the perfect image
for your needs. When entering the image adjust opon, you will be presented with the following
sub-menu.
Lense Shadow: Sets the amount of light available to the lense to provide clearer images. Turn this
funcon and you can alter the light level (0-255), H-centre (0-255) and V-centre (0-255).
2DNR: Turn on to acvate the Dynamic Noise Reducon funcon. When turned on, you can set
the level from 0-255.
Mirror: Provides a mirror reecon (horizontal) of the image. This funcon can be turned on or
o.
Font Colour: Change the font colour for the on-screen display. When turned on you can choose
between 15 colours and the ID/Title of the camera.
Contrast: Adjust the contrast colour (0-255)
Sharpness: Adjust the sharpness of the image (0-255)
Display: Choose the display from LCD, User, CRT or Neg Image. The LCD opon allows you to
adjust Gamma (0.3 - 1.0), Ped Level (0-63) and Colour Gain (0-255). The user opon allows you to
adjust the same opons as LCD and the CRT opon allows you to adjust Ped Level (0-63) and
Colour Gain (0-255).
Com Adjust: This feature is for RS485 sengs. Here you can adjust the baudrate (2400, 4800,
9600), Protocol (Pelco D, Pelco P) and the Cam ID (1-255).
Display ID: Turn the ID of the camera on or o. If set to on, you can choose the on screen posion
of the ID.
Language: Set the language on the camera.
Version: View the current rmware version on the camera.
Return: Save / End and return to the previous menu.
Exit: Exit the menu and go back to camera view. You will be asked to either exit without saving,save the
sengs or reset the camera back to the factory sengs.

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Model XC960DA
Picture Type Day/Night (B/W & Colour)
Image 1/3” SONY HAD II CCD 960H
Resoluon 960H
Minimum Illuminaon 0.06 Lux (Colour), 0.006 Lux (B/W)
Night Vision N/A
Lens 2.8-12mm Auto Iris Lens
Moon Detecon Yes
Mirrored Image Yes
OSD Funcons
Automac White Balance
Automac Gain Control
Backlight Compensaon
Digital Wide Dynamic Range
Noise Reducon
Power Supply DC 12V ± 10%
Consumpon 200mA
Operaon Temperature -10°C ~ 55°C
Dimensions in mm (WxHxD) 133x96x133
Weight (Kg) 0.46
Weatherproof Internal Only
For more informaon, please contact our technical team. Contact details are on the back page.
1. Product Overview
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Notes

TECHNICAL SUPPORT
For technical support, please contact your local distributor.
Alternatively, call 0871 222 1430.
LIMITED WARRANTY
This product is supplied with a 12 month warranty. The warranty excludes products
that have been misused (including accidental damage) and damage caused by
normal wear and tear. In the unlikely event that you encounter a problem with this
product, it should be returned to the place of purchase.
Manufactured exclusively for:
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