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User’ s Manual Important Safeguards 1. Read Instructions 13. Damage requiring Service All the safety and operating instructions should be read before the Unplug this equipment from the wall outlet and refer servicing to appliance is operated. qualified service personnel under the following conditions: A.
Digital Video Recorder Table of Contents Chapter 1 — Introduction................. 1 Features ....................... 1 Technical Overview ..................2 Chapter 2 — Installation................... 3 Package Contents ..................3 Required Installation Tools................3 Setting Unit for NTSC or PAL ............... 4 Connecting the Video Source............... 4 Connecting the Loop Through Video............
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User’ s Manual SEARCH/STOP Button................13 RW (Rewind) Button ................13 PREV (Previous) Button ................. 13 Play/Pause Button .................. 13 NEXT Button................... 13 FF (Fast Forward) Button................ 14 PANIC Button ..................14 Enter Button.................... 14 Up, Down, Left, Right Arrow Buttons ............14 Turning on the Power .................
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Digital Video Recorder Display Setup ..................... 50 OSD (On-Screen Display) Setup ............50 Main Monitoring Setup Screen..............51 Spot Monitoring Setup Screen..............52 Network Setup Screen................53 LAN Setup Screen .................. 54 Modem Setup ..................55 Callback Center Setup Screen..............56 Password Setup Screen................
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User’ s Manual Appendix D — Connector Pin Outs..............82 Alarm I/O Connector and RS485 Connector Pin Outs........ 82 Appendix E — Hard Disk Drive Addition and Replacement ......83 Hard Disk Drive Addition ................83 Hard Disk Drive Removal ................83 Hard Disk Drive Replacement ..............
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Digital Video Recorder List of Illustrations Figure 1 — Typical DVR installation..................1 Figure 2 — 16-Channel DVR rear panel................3 Figure 3 — NTSC/PAL switch....................4 Figure 4 — Video input connectors..................4 Figure 5 — Video Loop Through connectors................4 Figure 6 —...
Digital Video Recorder Chapter 1 — Introduction Features Your color digital video recorder (DVR) provides recording capabilities for nine or 16 camera inputs. It provides exceptional picture quality in both live and playback modes, and offers the following features: • 9 or 16 Composite Input Connectors •...
User’ s Manual Technical Overview Your DVR can replace both a time-lapse VCR and a multiplexer in a security installation. However, it has many features that make it much more powerful and easier to use than even the most advanced VCR. The DVR converts analog NTSC or PAL video to digital images and records them on a hard disk drive.
Digital Video Recorder Chapter 2 — Installation Package Contents The package contains the following: • Digital Video Recorder • Adaptor (Including Power Cord) • User’s Manual (This Document) • Smart View Software CD and User’s Manual • Rack-mount Kit Required Installation Tools No special tools are required to install the DVR.
User’ s Manual Setting Unit for NTSC or PAL Figure 3 — NTSC/PAL switch. Your DVR can be used with either NTSC or PAL equipment. Before turning on the DVR, set the switch to NTSC or PAL to match your equipment. NOTE: You cannot mix NTSC and PAL equipment.
Digital Video Recorder Connecting the Monitor Figure 6 — Video Out connectors. Connect the monitor to either the Video Out or SVHS Out connector. Connect the spot monitor to the SPOT connector if required. NOTE: If your monitor has an SVHS input, use it because it will give you better quality video display.
User’ s Manual Connecting Alarms Figure 8 — Alarm Input/Output and RS485 connector. Figure 9 — Alarm Input/Output board and alarm connector strips. An Alarm I/O port (DB-25 male connector) is provided to connect the alarm inputs and alarm outputs. Connect the wires to connectors on the Alarm I/O board (supplied with the unit), and then connect the board to the Alarm I/O port.
Digital Video Recorder ARI (Alarm Reset In) An external signal to the Alarm Reset In can be used to reset both the Alarm Out signal and the DVR’s internal buzzer. Mechanical or electrical switches can be wired to the ARI (Alarm Reset In) and GND (Ground) connectors.
User’ s Manual Connecting to the USB Port Figure 12 — USB connector. Two USB ports are provided to connect external hard disk drives, CD-RW or flash drive for clip copy or system upgrade. Position the external hard disk drive close enough to the DVR so that you can make the cable connections, usually less than 6 feet.
Digital Video Recorder Connecting to the RS232 Port Figure 14 — RS232 connector. An RS232 port is provided to connect an external modem for remote monitoring, configuration and software upgrades, and to connect a remote control keyboard. Use a modem cable with a DB-9S (female) connector to connect to the DVR.
User’ s Manual Connecting the Power Cord Figure 16 — Power cord connector. Connect the DC power cord of the adaptor to the DVR, and connect the AC power cord to the adaptor and then to the wall outlet. NOTE: The power cord connector locks into position to prevent accidental power loss. Be sure to slide the release away from the socket before removing the plug.
Digital Video Recorder Chapter 3 — Configuration NOTE: Your DVR should be completely installed before proceeding. Refer to Chapter 2 — Installation. Front Panel Controls Figure 17 — 16-Channel DVR front panel. The front panel looks and operates much like a VCR combined with a multiplexer. Many of the buttons have multiple functions.
User’ s Manual DUPLEX LED The DUPLEX LED is lit when the DVR is operating in the Duplex mode. PTZ Button Pressing the button opens a Pan/Tilt/Zoom screen which allows you to control properly configured cameras. MODE/TELE Button Pressing the MODE/TELE button toggles between different display formats.
Digital Video Recorder MENU/VIEW Button button enters the Quick Setup screen. You will need to enter the Pressing the MENU/VIEW administrator password to access the Quick Setup. Pressing the button also closes the current menu or setup dialog box. Loads a Preset View in PTZ mode. SEARCH/STOP Button Pressing the button displays the Search menu.
User’ s Manual FF (Fast Forward) Button Pressing the button plays video forward at high speed. Pressing the button again toggles the ? ? a nd ? ? a nd playback speed from . The screen displays respectively. Entering Fast Playback mode from Live Monitoring mode can be password protected. PANIC Button Pressing the button starts panic recording of all camera channels, and displays...
Digital Video Recorder Initial Unit Setup Before using your DVR for the first time, you will want to establish the initial settings. This includes items such as time and date, display language, camera, audio, remote control, record mode, network and password. Your DVR can be set up using various screens and dialog boxes. button to enter the setup screens.
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User’ s Manual The Quick Setup screen allows you to set up the most commonly used features of your DVR. Use the arrow buttons to move through the options. Pressing the button lets you make your selections. NOTE: If you enter the Quick Setup screen by entering User password, only Password setup will be permitted.
Digital Video Recorder Normal Setup Screen Figure 20 — Normal Setup screen. button to enter the setup screen. If the Quick Setup screen appears, turn Press the MENU/VIEW it off as described above. The Normal Setup screen gives you access to all the DVR’s setup screens.
User’ s Manual In the System Information screen, you can name the site location, assign a unit ID number, select the language the screens are displayed in, and upgrade the software. Highlight Change button. The System Information Change screen appears. and press the Figure 22 —...
Digital Video Recorder Highlight the box beside Language and press button. A drop-down menu displays the available languages. Highlight the desired language and press the button. Figure 24 — Language drop-down menu. After you have created a title, assigned a unit ID number and selected a language, you can save your changes by highlighting OK and pressing the button.
User’ s Manual Figure 25 — System Upgrade screen. Select Start, and enter the Admin password to start the upgrade. The system restarts automatically after completing the upgrade. NOTE: Only the system administrator can upgrade the software. NOTE: You cannot upgrade software during clip copy. Date/Time Setup Highlight Date/Time in the Main menu and press the button.
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Digital Video Recorder CAUTION: If you set a date and time that is older than some of your recorded images, any images with dates and times later than the new setting will be deleted. Highlight the first box beside Date/Time and press the button.
User’ s Manual Figure 27 — Holiday Setup screen. You can save your changes by highlighting OK and pressing the button . Selecting Cancel exits the screen without saving the changes. Highlight the Time Sync… box and press the button. You can set up time synchronization between the DVR and standard time servers that are available in most time zones and countries, or between the DVR and another DVR.
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Digital Video Recorder Highlight the box beside SNTP Server and press the button. Change the numbers by highlighting them and using the Up and Down arrow buttons to increase or decrease the number value. Highlight the box beside Interval and press the button.
User’ s Manual System Check Screen Highlight System Check in the Main menu and press the button. The System Check setup screen appears. Figure 29 — System Check screen. Highlight the box under the On/Off heading and press the button. This toggles between On and Off.
Digital Video Recorder Storage Screen Highlight Storage in the Main menu and press the button. The Storage setup screen appears. The DVR displays the storage status when the installed IDE hard disk drives support the S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology) monitoring program. Figure 30 —...
User’ s Manual The °C field displays the temperature of the storage device. The Usage field displays the device usage. NOTE: When the device is an IDE hard disk drive, you can change its usage to either Rec. On or Rec. Off. When the device is a SCSI hard disk drive, you can change its usage to either Extension or Archive.
Digital Video Recorder NOTE: When selecting Weekly or Monthly, the Day of Week or Day of Month field will display under the Period field. Select the check day or date. Highlight the box beside Check Time, and adjust the numbers using arrow buttons. Highlight the box beside Temperature Threshold and adjust the numbers using arrow buttons.
User’ s Manual System Shutdown Highlight System Shutdown in the Main menu and press the button. This shuts the DVR down. When shutting down the DVR, you need to confirm that you want to shut down the unit, and you will be asked for an administrator password. Configuring Input Devices You can configure the video, audio and remote control devices connected to the DVR.
Digital Video Recorder Camera Setup Screen Highlight Camera in the Main menu and press the button. The Camera setup screen appears. Figure 34 — Camera setup screen. The Camera setup screen displays the camera inputs in groups of four: 1-4, 5-8, 9-12 and 13-16.
User’ s Manual Figure 35 — PTZ Device list. You can assign IDs to each camera by highlighting the ID heading and pressing the button. Change the number by highlighting it and using the Up and Down arrow buttons to increase and decrease the number.
Digital Video Recorder Motion Detector Figure 37 — Motion Detector setup screen. Your DVR has built-in video motion detector. Video motion detector can be turned On or Off for each camera. Highlighting the box under the Sensitivity heading allows you to adjust the DVR’s sensitivity to motion.
User’ s Manual Figure 38 — Motion Detection Zone screen. The Motion Detection Zone screen is laid over the video for the selected camera. You can set up motion detection zones by selecting or clearing blocks. NOTE: You can set up motion zones one block at a time in groups of 9 or 16 individual block groups (9- and 16-channel DVR respectively).
Digital Video Recorder Close this menu — Closes the menu so that you can see the entire screen. Select Current Blocks — Activates highlighted blocks to detect motion. Clear Current Blocks — Deactivates highlighted blocks so that they will not detect motion. Select All Blocks —...
User’ s Manual Figure 41 — Alarm Out Schedule screen. You can select individual blocks of time, entire days of the week, entire blocks of time or the entire schedule. Select a specific block of time by highlighting it. Select an entire day by highlighting the day of the week or Holiday on the left of the screen.
Digital Video Recorder Audio Setup Screen Highlight Audio in the Main menu and press the button. The Audio Setup screen appears. Figure 42 — Audio Setup screen. Highlight the box beside Audio Recording and press the button. This toggles between On and Off.
User’ s Manual RS232/RS485 Setup Screen The RS232/RS485 setup screen allows you to set up the RS232 and RS485 ports to communicate with external devices such as modems, remote controls and dome cameras. Figure 43 — RS232/RS485 setup screen. Highlight the field for the settings you wish to make. Select the correct Baud Rate, Parity, Data Bits and Stop Bits for the device you are connecting to the DVR.
Digital Video Recorder Configuring Recording Settings Your DVR offers a variety of flexible recording modes. You can set it up to record all the time or to only record events. It can be set up to continue recording once the hard disk drive is full by recording over the oldest video, or you can set it up to alert you when the hard disk is full and stop recording.
User’ s Manual Highlight the box beside Panic Recording Speed and press the button. A drop-down list of panic recording speeds appears. You can select from 1 image per 10 seconds to 60 images per second for NTSC (to 50 images per second PAL). NOTE: If you have set the Record Resolution for High, you will not be able to select 60 ips NTSC (50 ips PAL).
Digital Video Recorder Highlight the box under the Quality heading and press the button. A drop-down list appears. You can select from Very High, High, Standard and Low image quality. All other variables being equal; Very High will require 600% more hard disk space than Standard, High will require 250% more, and Low 30% less.
User’ s Manual • You can change an entire day by placing the cursor on the day of the week and pressing the button to toggle the day On or Off. • You can change the entire calendar by placing the cursor in the upper left-hand box (above “S”...
Digital Video Recorder Event Action Setup You can program the DVR to record, activate the alarm output and/or notify the remote site whenever sensor, motion or video loss events are detected. Highlight the Alarm In Event Action, Motion Detector Event Action, or Video Loss Event Action in the Main menu. The following Event Action setup screens will appear.
User’ s Manual Alarm In Event Action (Alarm Out) Setup Screen The DVR can be set to react to events differently by activating an internal buzzer or external alarms. Figure 49 — Alarm In Event Action (Alarm Out) setup screen. Highlight the Sched box and press the button.
Digital Video Recorder Alarm In Event Action (Notify) Setup Screen The DVR can be set to notify the remote site when certain events are activated. Figure 50 — Alarm In Event Action (Notify) setup screen. Highlight the Sched box and press the button.
User’ s Manual Motion Detector Event Action (Record) Setup Screen The DVR can be set to react to motion detector differently. Each camera can be assigned a schedule, associated camera, recording speed, video quality and dwell time. Figure 51 — Motion Detector Event Action (Record) setup screen. Highlight the Sched box and press the button.
Digital Video Recorder Motion Detector Event Action (Alarm Out) Setup Screen The DVR can be set to react to motion events differently by activating an internal buzzer or external alarms. Figure 52 — Motion Detector Event Action (Alarm Out) setup screen. Highlight the Sched box and press the button.
User’ s Manual Motion Detector Event Action (Notify) Setup Screen The DVR can be set to notify the remote site when certain motion events are activated. Figure 53 — Motion Detector Event Action (Notify) setup screen. Highlight the Sched box and press the button.
Digital Video Recorder Video Loss Event Action (Record) Setup Screen The DVR can be set to react to video loss from a camera differently. Each camera can be assigned a schedule, associated camera, recording speed, video quality and dwell time. Figure 54 —...
User’ s Manual Video Loss Event Action (Alarm Out) Setup Screen The DVR can be set to react to video loss differently by activating an internal buzzer or external alarms. Figure 55 — Video Loss Event Action (Alarm Out) setup screen. Highlight the Sched box and press the button.
Digital Video Recorder Video Loss Event Action (Notify) Setup Screen The DVR can be set to notify the remote site in the case of video loss. Figure 56 — Video Loss Event Action (Notify) setup screen. Highlight the Sched box and press the button.
User’ s Manual Display Setup Highlight the OSD, Main Monitoring, or Spot Monitoring in the Main menu, and press the button to set up the on-screen display, or camera display on the main monitor or spot monitor. OSD (On-Screen Display) Setup The DVR can be set up to display Date, Time, Title and Status on screen.
Digital Video Recorder Main Monitoring Setup Screen You can adjust the display dwell time for each camera displayed on the main monitor. You can also turn camera sequence and event monitoring on and off. Figure 58 — Main Monitoring Setup screen. Highlight the box beside Sequence Dwell Time and press the button.
User’ s Manual Highlight the box beside Event Monitoring and press the button to toggle between On and Off. When it is On, the video of the lowest camera number among cameras associated with the event-detected sensor will be displayed in full-screen on the main monitor during the preset dwell time.
Digital Video Recorder Network Setup Screen In the Network Setup screen you can set up the DVR for LAN connections. Figure 60 — Network Setup screen. Highlight the box beside Connection. Press the button to toggle between LAN and Modem. Highlight the box beside Admin Password and press the button.
User’ s Manual Highlight the box beside Transfer Control. Press the button to toggle between On and Off. When On, you can set the transfer speed and remote quality of the image transferred to a computer running Smart View program. Highlight the box beside Transfer Speed and press the button.
Digital Video Recorder NOTE: You will need to get the appropriate IP Address, Gateway and Subnet Mask from your network administrator. Change the numbers by highlighting them and using the Up and Down arrow buttons to increase or decrease the number. The factory default LAN settings are: IP Address: 192.168.1.129...
User’ s Manual Highlight the box beside Data Bit of the RS232 field. Pressing the button toggles between 7 bit and 8 bit formats. Highlight the box beside Stop Bit of the RS232 field. Pressing the button toggles between 1 and 2 Stop Bits.
Digital Video Recorder Callback Center Setup by Modem connections Figure 64 — Callback Center (Modem) Setup screen. Highlight the box beside Pager Number and enter the telephone number of the pager. Enter the number as it must be dialed from your telephone system; for example,, if you must dial “9” for an outside line, enter “9”...
User’ s Manual Password Setup Screen An Administrator password is required to turn the system off, enter the setup screen, load default setups, clear all data, change system date and time and change the Administrator password. A User password is required to enter playback, fast forward playback and fast backward playback modes from live monitoring mode, enter the search menu screen in live monitoring mode and setup screens (access to only the Clip Copy setup screens).
Digital Video Recorder CAUTION: Write down the new password and save it in a secure place. If the password is forgotten, the unit must be reset using the Factory Reset Button and all data settings will be lost. To lock front panel buttons, highlight Key Lock On and press the button.
User’ s Manual Archive The Archive screen can be used to archive video automatically or manually. Figure 67 — Archive screen. Selecting Update loads the latest information displayed on the Archive screen. Selecting Clear erases all archived data. Selecting Setup displays a screen where you set up archive parameters. Figure 68 —...
Digital Video Recorder Highlight the box beside End Of Disk and press the button. This toggles between Overwrite and Stop. When set to Overwrite, the DVR continues archiving when the device drive is full by overwriting the oldest video. When set to Stop, the DVR stops archiving when the device drive is full.
User’ s Manual NOTE: The Stop button will display only during archiving. NOTE: If you have a large quantity of recorded video to archive, either stop recording or reset the recording speed. The oldest data to be archived might be overwritten if the hard disk is full.
Digital Video Recorder Highlight the File Name box and press the button. A virtual keyboard appears. Enter a file name for the video you are copying and select Close. The DVR will automatically add the camera number (for example “01”) and “.exe” to the file name. If you want to save the file in a specific folder, enter the folder name followed by a “/”.
User’ s Manual Figure 72 — Disk Partition Selection screen. Once you select the drive and partition to use for clip copy, the DVR will display the drive capacity, the clip size and ask if you want to continue. NOTE: Do not copy clips larger than 2GB. You can use other functions on the DVR while video is being copied.
Digital Video Recorder Load Default Setup Highlighting and selecting Load Default Setup will bring up screen asking you if you really want to load default settings and confirm it with a password. NOTE: Loading the Default Setup will not change the current time, time zone, daylight saving time and network settings.
Digital Video Recorder Chapter 4 — Operation NOTE: This chapter assumes your DVR has been installed and configured. If it has not, please refer to Chapters 2 and 3. The DVR’s controls are similar to a VCR. As with a VCR, the main functions are recording and playing back video.
User’ s Manual Pressing the button will cause the cameras to display sequentially on the SEQUENCE/WIDE monitor. When in one of the multi-view formats, pressing this button will cause the DVR to through user-defined screen layouts (page sequence), or the bottom, right screen to display live cameras sequentially (cameo sequence).
Digital Video Recorder PTZ Mode The DVR will control cameras with Pan, Tilt and Zoom capabilities. Press the button to enter the PTZ mode. You can control the camera using front panel control buttons or by setting up presets. To use the front panel buttons, press the Left and Right arrow buttons to pan left and right.
User’ s Manual Recording Video Once you have installed the DVR following the instructions in Chapter 2 — Installation, it is ready to record. Unless you change the setup, the DVR will start recording and will continue recording until the hard disk drive is full. Although you will be able to record without changing the unit from its original factory settings, you will want to take advantages of the DVR’s many tools.
Digital Video Recorder SEARCH/STOP Button Pressing the button during Playback mode returns the DVR to the Live SEARCH/STOP Monitoring mode. Camera Buttons (1 to 16) Pressing a camera button will display that camera full screen. MODE/TELE Button Pressing the MODE/TELE button will cycle the display through the different screen layouts.
User’ s Manual NOTE: The searching speed might decrease when all camera channels are in the pre-alarm recording mode. Change Data Source Figure 76 — Change Data Source screen. You can select the data source to be searched from local storage (Search On Local) or archive storage (Search On Archive).
Digital Video Recorder Calendar Search Figure 78 — Calendar Search screen. Days with recorded video display on the calendar with white numbers. You can highlight the days with recorded video by using the arrow buttons. Once you have highlighted a day, press button to select it.
User’ s Manual Event Search Figure 79 — Event Log screen. The DVR maintains a log of each time the Alarm Input port is activated. The Event Log screen displays this list. Use the arrow buttons to highlight the event for which you would like to see video.
Digital Video Recorder Figure 80 — Event Search (by Camera) screen. Figure 81 — Event Search (by Event) screen. Highlight the box beside Search by and press the button to toggle between Camera and Event. You can search video from the first to last recorded images, or you can set the start and stop times and dates.
Digital Video Recorder Appendix A — USB Hard Disk Drive Preparation Preparing the USB-IDE hard disk drive in Windows 2000 NOTE: Preparing a USB-IDE hard disk drive under Windows XP is almost identical to Windows 2000. 1. Connect the USB-IDE hard disk drive to your computer using the USB Cable. 2.
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User’ s Manual 8. Choose the appropriate letter corresponding to the USB-IDE hard disk drive. 9. In the FDISK Option menu, choose “1. Create DOS partition or Logical DOS Drive.” 10. In the Create DOS Partition or Logical DOS Drive menu, choose “1. Create Primary DOS Partition.”...
Digital Video Recorder Appendix B — Reviewing Video Clips NOTE: It is suggested that the computer used for the Smart View program has at least a 800MHz Pentium III. If your CPU is slower than this, backup files recorded at maximum speed with very high image quality will be played back slowly.
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User’ s Manual The Backup File Information window displays information regarding the backup file. Location displays the site description of the DVR where the backup was made. Record displays the time span of the video backup file. Encryption displays whether the backup file has been tampered with.
Digital Video Recorder Appendix C — Troubleshooting Problem Possible Solution • Check power cord connections. No Power • Confirm that there is power at the outlet. • Check camera video cable and connections. • Check monitor video cable and connections. No Live Video •...
Digital Video Recorder Appendix E — Hard Disk Drive Addition and Replacement Hard Disk Drive Addition Turn off the unit after shutdown. Add the hard Slave hard disk drive. NOTE: When the hard disk drive you are adding is a used one, format it on Windows-based PC first.
User’ s Manual Case II: When replacing problem ‘ SLAVE’ hard disk drives… Find out the problem Slave hard disk drive first using the storage check function. NOTE: Select the “Storage” menu in the Menu mode, and Storage screen displays the information about problem hard disk drives.
User’ s Manual Appendix G — Specifications VIDEO Signal Format NTSC or PAL (selector switch) Composite: 9 or 16 looping inputs, 1 Vp-p, Video Input auto-terminating, 75 Ohms Composite: One, 1 Vp-p, 75 Ohms Monitor Outputs SVHS: One SPOT: 1 BNC Video Resolution 720x480 (NTSC), 720x576 (PAL) Playback/Record Speed...
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Digital Video Recorder STORAGE Primary Storage EIDE hard disk drive (up to 2) UltraWide SCSI hard disk drive (RAID) Backup Storage USB hard disk drive, CD-RW drive or flash drive GENERAL Dimensions (W x H x D) 16.9" x 1.7" x 15.7" (430mm x 44mm x 399mm) Unit Weight 14.3 lbs.