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TATUNG TDR series Digital Recording System Page TDR-22XX series Digital Recording System Installation and Operation Manual V 1.01 TATUNG COMPANY OF AMERICA. INC 2850 El Presidio St., Long Beach CA 90810 USA Tel: 310-637-2105 Fax: 310-638-2180 www.tatungusa.com...
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TATUNG TDR series Digital Recording System CHAPTER 1: INSTALLATION Place the Digital Recording System on the flat surface or mount it on the 19” rack. * For TDR-2209 there are only 9 camera Inputs and 9 Loop through outputs on the back board.
TATUNG TDR series Digital Recording System Step 1: Connect the Cables Connect all the necessary connector and signal cables into the correct ports. Audio In Audio Out Power In * For TDR-2209 there are only 9 camera Inputs and 9 Loop through outputs on the back board.
TATUNG TDR series Digital Recording System CHAPTER 2: WATCH MODE Turn on the system. The main screen of TATUNG TDR-22XX series appears as below. Note: For TDR-2209 there are only 9 channels split the screen. For TDR-2204 there are only 4...
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TATUNG TDR series Digital Recording System Full SCR Button This button allows you to hide all buttons and icons and enlarge the display windows to the FULL SCREEN. You have to right click to get back to normal. Once you get the full screen, if you LEFT click, the screen can not go back to normal, instead, the picture the mouse arrow sitting on will be enlarged to full screen.
TATUNG TDR series Digital Recording System 2.1 Channel display window 3. Record status lamp 1. Channel (Camera) name Identify the name for each channel. You may assign the channel name in SETUP mode. 2. Image Display window This area displays the image comes from the camera.
TATUNG TDR series Digital Recording System 2.2 Selection of Split screen Selection of window division mode that is available in 1 division window (sequence from channel 1 to channel 16), 4 window, 9 window, 16 window, and Full screen display.
TATUNG TDR series Digital Recording System 2.3 Motion Tracker This function allows you to track the path of a moving object from one channel to another. All image windows this object passed by will be enlarged. Therefore, the object will always display on an enlarged window.
TATUNG TDR series Digital Recording System 2.4 Mode Switch button There are four function modes can be selected in this system. 2.5 ON/OFF Button Click on the one of these buttons to perform the function SETUP: Click to switch to SETUP MODE. The setup mode...
TATUNG TDR series Digital Recording System CHAPTER 3: SETUP MODE The first screen of the setup mode will be the channel setting as the following picture Note: For TDR-2209, CH 10 to CH 16 will be empty by the factory’s setting. For TDR-2204, CH 05 to CH 16 will be empty by factory’s setting...
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TATUNG TDR series Digital Recording System 6. P/T/Z camera protocol Click to setup the communication port and protocol used to communicate between Tatung’s DVR and the camera connected. 7. Password Click on this button to setup the user name and password for access security.
TATUNG TDR series Digital Recording System 3.1 Channel This function button (as shown below) can be used to setup the channels. There are two different types of channel setting, manual or automatic. Note: For TDR-2209, CH 10 to CH 16 will be empty by the factory’s setting.
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TATUNG TDR series Digital Recording System 2. Setup the name Setup the channel name by following the procedure Click the channel number Key in the name of the channel Limited to 14 characters and number including space. 2. Key in the...
TATUNG TDR series Digital Recording System 3.2 Schedule This function button (as shown below) is used to setup the schedules. Note: For TDR-2209, Camera’s CH 10 to CH 16 and Motion’s CH 10 to CH 16 will be useless even you activate it. For TDR- 2204, Camera’s CH 05 to CH 16...
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TATUNG TDR series Digital Recording System 4. Activate the camera 5. Select the Recording mode 6. Setup Alarm Out: Alarm Output may setup when either a sensor is triggered or 7. Set up another group 8. Exit Click the camera icon to activate the cameras which are used in this group.
TATUNG TDR series Digital Recording System Page 3.3 Speed This function button (as shown below) can be used to setup the recording speeds. Click this button the screen displays as below. Normal Recording Speed Dragging the cursor can designate normal recording speed (frame rate) for each camera or all cameras (Separate frame rate for each camera is available).
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TATUNG TDR series Digital Recording System MISC Check on the box if you want the following features to be enabled. Recording While Image Quality Dragging the cursor can adjust the compression rate, the higher the compression the worse the image quality. The recorded image with best quality (100%) is clear and vivid.
TATUNG TDR series Digital Recording System 3.4 Color This function button (as shown below) is used to setup the colors. Click this button to setup the color, the screen will be shown as below. 1. Select channel Select the channel (from 1 to 16) you want to adjust.
TATUNG TDR series Digital Recording System 3.5 Motion This function button (as shown below) can be used to setup the motions. Note: If no detection zone was defined, system will recognize the whole windows as a detection zone. Note: After the camera is...
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TATUNG TDR series Digital Recording System Page Sensitivity Set the sensitivity of software motion detection. At highest sensitivity even very trivial motion will be detected. Clear all block ll of the detecting zones for a specific channel. 4. EXIT You may click any other icon to exit Motion Setup Mode and go directly...
TATUNG TDR series Digital Recording System 3.6 P/T/Z Protocol This function button (as shown below) is used to setup P/T/Z Protocol. Click on this button to setup the P/T/Z Protocol, the screen display as the below Please select the same protocol as that of your camera.
TATUNG TDR series Digital Recording System 3.7 Password This function button (as shown below) can be used to setup the password. Note: For TDR-2209, the Hide Camera function CH 10 to CH 16 will be useless even you activate it. For TDR-2204, the Hide...
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Select the Remote Access in the Password Select window. An Input Password window will be prompted up. After entering the password and click OK, the following screen will be shown. TATUNG TDR series allow the administrator to sign up remote users.
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TATUNG TDR series Digital Recording System Note: For TDR-2209, the Hide Camera function of Remote Client CH 10 to CH 16 will be useless even you activate it. For TDR-2204, the Hide Camera function of Remote Client CH 05 to CH 16 will be useless even you activate it.
3. Check on the box of the channel you want to activate For TDR-22XX series, audio can be recorded only in channel one (01). 4. EXIT You may click any other icon to exit Voice Setup Mode and go directly into other setup mode.
TATUNG TDR series Digital Recording System 3.9 Exit Click on EXIT button to switch back to WATCH MODE after you complete all the setting in the SETUP mode. Note: You can always click on the EXIT to switch back to watch mode no matter what function mode you are in.
TATUNG TDR series Digital Recording System CHAPTER 4: SEARCH MODE The main screen of the search mode is shown below. Note: For TDR-2209 there are only 9 channels split the screen. For TDR-2204 there are only 4 channels split the...
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TATUNG TDR series Digital Recording System 7. Exit Click this button to exit the Search Mode and back to the Watch Mode. 8. Mute Box Check this box to disable the audio playback. 9. Channel playback window This is the area to display the playback images along with the channel names and the recording date and time.
TATUNG TDR series Digital Recording System 4.1 Channel play back window This area is the 16 channels play-back window. All channels can be played back synchronously. Note: You can always enlarge a specific channel by left clicking on this channel and left click again to back to the multi channel playback mode.
TATUNG TDR series Digital Recording System 4.2 Buttons on Play Back Console These buttons are used to control the data stream. Note: You can always playback the images no matter you are in the multi channel playback mode or one specific channel playback mode.
TATUNG TDR series Digital Recording System 4.3 Date/Time This function button is used to search the images from date and time. Note: You can always select the date/time no matter you are in the multi channel playback mode or one specific channel playback mode.
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TATUNG TDR series Digital Recording System 4. Start After complete the date and time selection, click on “Start” button to search or playback the recorded images.(after clicking, the selection window will disappear). 5. EXIT If you want to cancel this date and time selection, click “EXIT” to back to the main screen of the search mode.
TATUNG TDR series Digital Recording System 4.4 Log Function button can be used to search the images from motion recording and sensor recording logs. Click this button the screen will prompt out a data list displayed as below. (Please follow the steps below)
TATUNG TDR series Digital Recording System 4.5 Save Disk This function button is used to save a short period of images to a floppy disk. Channels and number of frames are selectable in this function. Note: if you choose a specific channel to save the image.
TATUNG TDR series Digital Recording System 4.6 Print This function is to print the specific image on the system printer as the immediately data retrieve. Channels and frames are selectable in this function. Click on this button to print the specific image to floppy disk as the immediately data retrieve.
TATUNG TDR series Digital Recording System 4.7 Storage Capacity Function is used to check the usage information of the removable HDD. Note: If the sound recording function is disabled, the sound storage space reserved will be constituted part of the total storage capacity.
TATUNG TDR series Digital Recording System CHAPTER 5: BACKUP MODE After clicking the Backup button, the following window is prompted out. Note: In this mode, the system will hold the recording. After you complete the scheduling and back to watch mode, the system will record again.
TATUNG TDR series Digital Recording System 5.1 Auto Backup This function is used to back up the recorded images from a customized time schedule. The execution time of the backup can also be designated. The screen will prompt out the following window after clicking on the Auto Backup button.
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TATUNG TDR series Digital Recording System 3. Immediately backup option If you want to immediately backup some images, skip steps 1 & 2 and follow the steps below. a. Assign the backup date b. Assign the starting time and ending time c.
TATUNG TDR series Digital Recording System 5.2 AVI Backup This function is to back up the selected data immediately to AVI (Windows default audio and video information file). The screen will prompt out the windows as below after click on this button. (Please follow the steps).
TATUNG TDR series Digital Recording System 5.3 Explorer This function is to call out the WINDOWS explorer which let the operator control this system. The screen will prompt out the Windows explorer as below. 5.4 Cancel Cancel this function mode and back to watch mode.
TATUNG TDR series Digital Recording System CHAPTER 6: CONTROL MODE The main screen of the control mode is as the following picture Note: For TDR-2209 there are only 9 channels split the screen. For TDR-2204 there are only 4 channels split the screen 6.1 Camera Control...
TATUNG TDR series Digital Recording System 6.2 EXIT ZOOM/FOCUS/PRESET Panel: Zoom/Focus/Preset panel ZOOM/FOCUS control Click on this button to exit the control mode and back to the Watch mode. Page Load the default setting for selected camera...
Due to its remote access capability, TDR-22xx can be used as video monitor receiver to increase the revenue for alarm monitor center. Especially false alarm can be verified if TDR-22xx works with alarm panel.
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TATUNG TDR series Digital Recording System SOFTWARE: Operation System Windows 98 Second edition Display Speed Real-time TDR-2216 480FPS TDR-2209 270FPS TDR-2204 120FPS Record Speed TDR-2216 240FPS MAX TDR-2209 240FPS MAX TDR-2204 120FPS MAX GENERAL Operation Temperature 41° to 104°F (5° to 40°C).
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Record Speed (KB) per Second This equation is a generic formula of how TATUNG calculates the storage capacity. Storage calculation is based on the average image size, the actual size may vary. The medium quality is equivalent to VCR quality.
TATUNG TDR series Digital Recording System APPENDIX B: Connector Configuration Camera In Camera Out Camera In/Out CH 01 * For TDR-2209 there are only 9 camera Inputs and 9 Loop through outputs on the back board. For TDR-2204 there are only 4 camera Inputs and 4 Loop through outputs on the back board.