HandyKam launch their new camera system

Surveys, building maintenance and repair-finding are made easier with HandyKam, an inexpensive site camera.

Surveys, building maintenance and repair-finding are made easier with an inexpensive site camera.

HandyKam launch their new camera system after a year of RandD and independent site testing.

HandyKam is a small waterproof CCTV colour camera with built-in lights on the end of a 20m reel, mounted with a camera holster on a tool belt worn round the waist.

The camera feeds video to a 5" colour LCD TV monitor that can be worn on the chest or stand on a bench or floor.

It is completely self-contained with its own control box, light dimmer and rechargeable battery.

The result is an extremely lightweight, portable colour survey camera with a reach of up to 20m.

It is supplied complete with a number of accessories to attach the camera head to drain rods, cable rods, ropes, wands and lightweight composite poles so that it can be pushed into pipes and ducts, dropped down chimneys, under floors, into cavities and tanks, down shafts or lifted up to take a close look at gutters, truss work, leaks, infestation and other overhead problems that usually require a ladder.

Other uses include rummaging, hygiene inspections and security.

Priced at £299, HandyKam is packed in a toolbox carry case, easy to stow away in a truck or car.

The system is aimed at anyone whose work involves looking into dark or difficult places.

John Nash, manager at HandyKam.com, a dedicated division of Mike Nash , explained, "I spent twenty years in site management, where time is always money.

We set out to produce a useful entry-level camera system that can be carried by anyone, all the time, just like any other tool.

It is not designed to replace professional drain cameras - it is a site camera - simply a fast and easy way to look up, down, over, under, into or across challenging close-quarter situations.

It saves a lot of time and a heck of a lot of crawling, head scratching and swearing when you're busy.

It can also save a lot of climbing ladders and employing people just to stand and hold them.

After job completion, it can provide reassurance to both contractor and client that nothing has been overlooked".

"It takes only two minutes to set up and is very easy to use", he added.

"Priced for popular availability, the first system we sold went to a local maintenance contractor who, completely untrained, put it to work on his very next call-out.

Within minutes, he was looking at a sewer pipe fracture.

He reckoned it paid for itself on its first day".

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