The coppers probably easy enough to get most of it. The gold will mosty be thin bits on the circuitry and you'd need extensive work to remove it and process into a sellable product.
Most of them only take stuff for free. Unless you have a lot of high quality boards. I thought about doing it myself years ago but it wasn't worth the investment and time for me even with me getting free appliance circuitry from work.
Once you have a 1000 circuit boards, it makes sense to extract it on your own. These sort of procedures scale well. The more circuit boards you have, the less time it takes per gram of gold.
I thought, this couldn't be true, because surely, one of those cameras doesn't cost more than like $200. There's no official price list, but I'm finding numbers online of $2500 per year. This includes maintenance, footage hosting and cell service, which is likely the bulk of the cost. Either way, jeebus, that's a lot of money.
Government contracting is a grift with a long, long history. I bet if you travelled back in time to ancient Egypt, you'd find military leaders overcharging the pharaohs for security services.
You mean there's more copper in them, right? Just, like, hypothetically if people needed money for their entertainment budget and had several of these spare in their neighborhood basement they could dismantle them and sell the metals?
Flock Cameras are not for doorbells. They're sold to law enforcement and local government to conduct surveillance on citizens, often placing one at each entry point to a community so there's no way to enter or leave in a vehicle without the camera scanning your license plate and creating a record of your comings and goings.
If you're not interested in the copper, smashing the camera and destroying the more expensive solar panel makes for a romantic date night, too!
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The coppers probably easy enough to get most of it. The gold will mosty be thin bits on the circuitry and you'd need extensive work to remove it and process into a sellable product.
True, but if you had 1000 circuit boards, i'll bet you could find an interested buyer that knows how to do the complicated bits.
Most of them only take stuff for free. Unless you have a lot of high quality boards. I thought about doing it myself years ago but it wasn't worth the investment and time for me even with me getting free appliance circuitry from work.
Once you have a 1000 circuit boards, it makes sense to extract it on your own. These sort of procedures scale well. The more circuit boards you have, the less time it takes per gram of gold.
CodysLab on youtube has a series where he extracts gold from things, if anyone is interested. Yea it's a lot of work.
Here is extracting gold from RAM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhuwO8AjM7k
I thought, this couldn't be true, because surely, one of those cameras doesn't cost more than like $200. There's no official price list, but I'm finding numbers online of $2500 per year. This includes maintenance, footage hosting and cell service, which is likely the bulk of the cost. Either way, jeebus, that's a lot of money.
Government contracting is a grift with a long, long history. I bet if you travelled back in time to ancient Egypt, you'd find military leaders overcharging the pharaohs for security services.
I know someone who can provide the Pharao with the best quality copper for a fair price.
"Akanatun… who's got all the bronze gladiuses? let's say you pay us our share of your stolen grain and we won't overthrow you."
This image is great but I find the quantity of elements present to be highly suspect
You mean there's more copper in them, right? Just, like, hypothetically if people needed money for their entertainment budget and had several of these spare in their
neighborhoodbasement they could dismantle them and sell the metals?How can a simple doorbell camera have... let me convert from ye oldie measurements... almost a KILOGRAM of copper in it?!
Does it have a big heatsink for some reason?
Or is someone just trying to trick thieves into trying to steal them? Which is pointless, at best it would only work once, maybe.
Flock Cameras are not for doorbells. They're sold to law enforcement and local government to conduct surveillance on citizens, often placing one at each entry point to a community so there's no way to enter or leave in a vehicle without the camera scanning your license plate and creating a record of your comings and goings.
If you're not interested in the copper, smashing the camera and destroying the more expensive solar panel makes for a romantic date night, too!
Flock cameras are doorbell cameras?
Aren't those these things: https://www.stopflock.com/images/FlockCam1.png
Those numbers are way too small. there's at least 25 kgs of copper in there