My Pan-Tilt Mikrotik
I had the desire, not the need, to be able to pan/tilt my Mikrotik AP from inside my house. It is a huge pain to go outside, climb the ladder, sit on the roof with my laptop and tune my AP. Yes I occasionally have to tune my AP. So I came up with a simple and relatively inexpensive option…A Pan-Tilt mount for a surveillance camera.
I found this guy on ebay for $99 with $20 shipping. Here’s my install:
As you can tell, the PT unit is about the size of a milk jug, so it’s pretty big.
The whole shibang
I used a tailor light hookup kit to connect my cat5 hookup wire to the PT unit.
Heat shrink and liquid electrical tape...I'm high dollar.
My superfly custom brackets that I bent…I bent them on my BBQ pit 😉
I doubled it up.
I attached a piece of PVC to the top of the unit to hold the rootenna to. I then spray painted it to look, in the words of Rob, less “redneck.”
Soooo perdy.
A full 360 degree pan takes about 45 seconds.
I really only use pan, so I unhooked the tilt once I got it set.
Track and destroy mode… I like it !!!
The new term is sweep and clean…you have to be PC these days.
That’s pro!
Do you have the model number of the PTZ base you bought? I’d love to find one of those myself.
Andrew,
There is no model number on these dudes…hehe. I would say just look on ebay for “pan tilt” and you’ll see them. They are right around $100 US.
I think I want to mount a paint ball gun on one.
Mount a frickin laser beam on it.