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I totally agree with the laptop idea, as Mark suggested, for data security as one thing.
I would like to add a couple of suggestions too.
Until we sold our house (we move on 10th June), my wife and I ran 24/7 live webcams from our house for a couple of years. The focus was spirit capture and one long term experiment was live ITC from a colour TV in the basement. Will you be having internet access out in the shed ?
If so, I would be delighted to offer any advice on webcam running and think that even one camera, mounted in the shed corner and capturing ITC images that feed out live, would work as great security too.
One recent and comical reasoning for such a system was last week...i'd set up my arcade machines in the garage for a potential buyer to look over. Wife called me in for a TV show and when I went back outside all the machines were running different games and had different amounts of game credits on them! It turns out that the guy stopped by, played the games. went 'nahhh' and walked away, but it could obviously have been a thief too. If we'd have had the garage cam still running i'd have had images to step back through and see who visited !
It was work I used to do every day, in my town security CCTV job before coming to the USA and formed my views on letting the world share possible successes. Various sensors in the garage, meant for spirit tripping, might have lead to explanations of 'faults' and got me sales that evening lol.
Having our experiments broadcast live, with chat box area etc, really helped to refine down or even dismiss some techniques. It also meant that site viewers might be watching the experiments at times we weren't even awake.
Perhaps you could have schedules posted, if 24/7 would be too much of a hassle. We actually found it easier to just leave everything running, than power down/up every day.
So, just throwing that out at ya as an idea, because I know several people would probably enjoy the thought of watching your experiments as they happen.
Our CCTV system is an EXXIS B+W EO4174Q. 4 camera setup that have microphones on them too and I thoroughly recommend them for perhaps an Ebay find. A few years old now, but ours was just $20 at a local thrift shop in Minnesota and has performed flawlessly. These things are supposed to run 24 hours a day and it has done, 100%. Cables are CAT5, though RJ11 4 wire will work if you don't need audio. Image quality is great and would allow for remote viewing in your house too. The output goes straight to any TV capture card, as well as it's own screen..so is easy for internet broadcast. Being CCTV cameras, they aren't webcams and so pixellation problems are somewhat muted when broadcast. A VCR is similarly easy to connect and makes post experiment image stepping through cheap and effective.
We found that especially with ITC, sometimes the possible spirit images were clearer when we weren't present. Possibly self energies getting in on things....who knows ?!
Best wishes with the set up, exciting times eh :D