Outdoor camera enclosure on the cheap?

Post by **kylejohnson** » Sat Apr 10, 2010 2:09 pm

Yao! I have three IP cameras that I'd like to put outdoors, but I don't want to drop the money on an enclosure. Wondering if anyone has any ideas on building one on the cheap. It would of course have to be water-tight and possibly include a small computer fan to deal with humidity.

Thoughts?

Or are there any cheap enclosures that you can recommend?

Thanks!

funnyceline · Post by **funnyceline** » Tue May 11, 2010 3:17 pm

You are right, you can use some computer fans for the humidity. You can make a DIY enclosure to fit in your camera.

Post by **Flasheart** » Wed May 12, 2010 4:48 am

Or try and make it airtight and use silica gel to help. That said, I've found humidity not to be a major problem with non airtight enclosures, only really around dawn, but that might be a regional thing.

rickt · Post by **rickt** » Fri May 28, 2010 3:30 am

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0016R6KC8

I got 2 sets of those housings. Since they had dummy cameras in them I went ahead and mounted most of them. an ACTI ACM4000 can be crammed into it if you work it in kind of forcefully or remove the rails from the inside of the housing beforehand. I also left the power brick inside the housing and just ran 110V into the housing to power the camera. I am slowly replacing the dummy cameras inside the housings with real ones as I get time to run network wires everywhere.

15 bucks each for waterproof housings with the mounting arms and everything they cant be beat.