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Galaxy IT & Marketing is an authorized Lorex dealer serving Millbury, MA. Every system we install records to a recorder in your building — no monthly subscription, and it keeps recording with the internet down.
Millbury sits along the Blackstone, and low-lying riverside property brings a problem most camera conversations skip entirely: water — where the recorder lives, and how the cameras are sealed.
The default place installers put a recorder is the basement, because that is where the network gear usually is. On a property that has ever taken water in the basement, that is the wrong choice — and the failure is total. Cameras keep working, the recorder is destroyed, and every recording goes with it.
On low-lying property we mount the recorder off the floor at minimum, and preferably on a floor above. Where a basement is genuinely the only option, it goes on a wall-mounted shelf well above any historic water line, on its own circuit, with a battery backup so a pump failure and a power cut do not compound.
Outdoor cameras rarely fail because the housing cracked. They fail because water tracked down the cable and entered through the connector, or because the gland at the entry point was never properly sealed. In a damp riverside microclimate with hard freeze cycles, that is the dominant failure mode.
Doing it properly means a drip loop so water runs away from rather than into the connector, sealed and weatherproofed junctions, and entry points caulked from the outside. It is unglamorous work and it is the difference between a camera that lasts eight years and one that dies in the second winter.
Commercial property near the highway runs the usual pattern: entrance plate coverage where there is vehicle access, standard interior set for retail and service businesses, and lot cameras chosen for how they behave after dark rather than at midday.
Not in the basement. It is the default choice because the network gear is usually there, and on low-lying property it is a total-loss failure — cameras keep working, the recorder and every recording are gone. We put it on an upper floor where possible, or wall-mounted well above any historic water line with a battery backup if the basement is genuinely the only option.
Most likely water entering through the cable connector rather than the housing failing. Water tracks down the cable and in at the joint, and freeze cycles finish it. The prevention is a drip loop so water runs away from the connector, properly sealed junctions, and caulking the entry point from outside. It is the least glamorous part of the install and the most decisive.
Good ones do, given the right housing rating and a sealed installation. The temperature swing itself is rarely what kills them — it is moisture that got in during a warm spell and then froze and expanded. Seal it properly and the rest follows.
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