Cam Pan horizontal lines in low light or darkness

[Bam]

yup. more than likely the heat caused by direct sunlight along with the heat the camera produces itself fried the sensor in some way.

a maven @Newshound did a little test on something else, but having a camera in an older un-protected window got some interesting results.

@Newshound

A warning: Putting cameras in direct sunlight can make the camera go over temp and fail.

My experience was with a camera I painted Plasti Dip black and put in a west-facing garage window behind an uncoated plain piece of glass. It was summer. So there were several factors making the sun worse: The garage was hot, the camera was black, and sunlight was unfiltered coming through the glass.

THE CAMERA HIT A WHOPPING 170 DEGREES, and that was in late September in northern Indiana!!! Imagine what it might have been back in July & August, or in Arizona. The camera was down very often, often requiring power-cycling to get it back up again. I never would have guessed the camera would have gotten so hot there.

I moved the cam from sitting on the sill up against the glass to being mounted a few inches away at the top of the window, and cut the effect of heat down to around 100 degrees, worse case. The garage is warm in the summer, and the camera is always warmer than its environment. So I now attribute most of the camera’s temperature to that.

The camera is working perfectly now, but I wanted to warn everyone to think about your camera’s environment, especially if you are having trouble with it!

I was rather shocked at how high that got. He got an interesting result out of it too, that overheating basically caused the camera to black out until it was within a correct operating temperature. so I have no doubt that having it in the window somehow affected the sensor causing your issue. on an odd point though, I have a couple cameras in less than prime locations for heat and sunlight protection and I haven’t had any issues…yet.