Sanyipace 24pcs LED Lights Plumbing Camera and Locator Review

New Plumbing Camera Introduction

Last year, I got a small plumbing camera from Sanyipace. It was 200 feet long, and it could go down as small as 2in lines. Now I have a new, larger version. It's 50 m long, and it's best used for 4 in lines or above. It comes with a user manual and a bunch of different accessories, including a 32-gig SD card, camera and charger. Drag it over to an outlet and put it on the charger. It's only pulling 10 and 12 w SS while it's charging up.

Unboxing 24LEDs Sewer Camera with Locator

I can flip through the manual and then put together the locator. This sewer camera has a built-in locator. It operates on 512 Hz. You can use this locator to figure out where your plumbing camera is. The new locator comes with a carrying case and several accessories, such as a strap, headphone jack, and antenna unit. The retain locking screw throw on the charger, then we will be ready to use it. The locator has a built-in LCD. You can change it from near to far, adjust the volume, or mute the volume.

This plumbing camera got here just in time. In the past three weeks, I've had eight different calls for backed-up sewers. As soon as I have the sewer line open, I break out the camera and run it down to see if I can figure out what the cause of the sewer backup was. And it doesn't take too long to figure out that we've got tree roots. You can see them there at 14 ft. Later on, at about 26 ft, we also have another large chunk of roots. Unfortunately, on this particular project, every single section of clay pipe has tree roots growing in it. 

Plumbing camera screen display & adjustable LED

One of the things I like about this drain inspection camera is on the left-hand side, it shows you the battery voltage, and it also shows you how far out the sewer camera is. In the bottom right corner, it shows you the time and the date that the video was taken. As you can see from the camera, we're going to spend some more time in this sewer pipe, cutting out some of these tree roots. We ran the sewer machine out and back a few times to cut a bunch more of those tree roots out and did a re-inspection. This time, it looked a lot better. To turn the sewage camera on and off, all you have to do is press this red button. Once it boots up, you can begin to use it to adjust the brightness of the LEDs. There are two different ways. One is with this green button. You can turn on 5-level LED lights. The other option is using the F6 key.

Plumbing camera text recording

In addition to the battery voltage, distance, time, and date, you can also use the keyboard to display text on the screen. You can put in any information you want here, such as the address, the location of the sewer, the customer, or the technician who's running the sewer machine. If you don't want to see the text on the screen anymore, you can erase it all, or you can hit F5, which removes all the text from the left-hand side of the screen.

Sewer camera self-leveling

But one of the absolute best features of this plumbing camera is the auto self-leveling. I've used a camera before that did not auto-level, so you had to stop and think about where the plumbing camera was orientated to figure out what was the top of the pipe and what was the bottom of the pipe. As soon as you stop shaking the camera, it automatically autocorrects to the correct orientation. 

How to use the 512Hz locator

This locator will tell you when you're getting closer or farther away from the transmitter. 

• The process of finding your transmitter is to go on the far setting signal strength 7 and move around until you have full strength.
• Use the selection knob, change the sensitivity down to a two or a three, then continue to move until you have full strength again.
• Once you've got as close as you can to the far setting, switch over to the near setting and repeat the process as before.
• Go till you get the best signal strength, then lower the sensitivity and keep moving in until you've located it.

The transmitter can be used through different types of pipes upstairs. I was using a PVC pipe for reference, but downstairs, I'm using it to locate the camera inside this cast iron sewer pipe. Same as before, start with the far setting. Once you get complete signal strength, switch over to the near setting, and this will help you locate the transmitter. The nice thing about this particular kit is that 512 Hz is a widespread frequency for sewer cameras and locators to operate on. You don't have to use this specific sewer camera. You can use any sewer camera that has a transmitter that operates in the 512 Hz frequency. Another advantage of this particular plumbing camera is the previous one had 12 LEDs, and this new one has 24 LEDs, which makes it super bright.

Conclusion

I'm not sure how long this battery lasts, but after about the fourth time using it, I threw it on the charger, so I would have a full charge the next time I needed it. I've had eight sewer calls that I've had to go on since I've had this camera. All but two of them were caused by tree roots. If you want to get one drain inspection camera for yourself, you can head over to Sanyipace. I got the one that goes out 165 ft. It's got a transmitter in the camera, and it also comes with a locator. This one also has 24 LEDs as opposed to the previous one, which only had 12. If you use the coupon code [ HOH100 ], you can also get $100 off of your order.