I replaced my under-eave floodlights with
FloodCams. The FloodCam is a good concept
but needs some improvements. It’s hard to
believe the X10 flood cam does not have an
adjustable mount. Even after you get them
mounted it is hard to aim at the position
you want to view with no adjustments.
For what it’s worth here are some of the
ideas that I used:
My electrical boxes were flush, I found a
box extender at Ace #3014610 and mounted it
to my original box this provided mounting
holes for the camera and lights but no
adjustment to aim the camera at doors, etc.
To be able to adjust the camera I combined
the removable adjustable part from two
different flood light holders, one from
Lowe’s #14330BR and one from True Value
357274, (will have some unused parts).
Flood light holder mounts usually have a
male & female side attached with a screw for
adjustment, so these two parts from
different manufactures worked well
together. I could not find anything that
would provide an adjustable male to female
bracket is the reason for next step. To
fasten the Camera’s male fitting to the male
bracket assembled from the flood light parts
above use a 1/2” threaded conduit sleeve
(1/2” pipe did not work), I cut the sleeves
in half just to make shorter and also one
will make connector for two different
cameras. Use care threading the wires
through the bracket not to stress the wires
from the camera.
Hope this helps,
AL
