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I use the Street Guardian with a Lukas hard-wire kit. Seems to work great. I never have to touch it. After I turn the car off, I have it set to run until the car battery hits 12.4V, then it cuts it off.
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Henrik Zetterberg posted:I use the Street Guardian with a Lukas hard-wire kit. Seems to work great. I never have to touch it. After I turn the car off, I have it set to run until the car battery hits 12.4V, then it cuts it off. I was going to ask about how well you liked the Lukas kit but forgot. The car in which I had hardwired a SG9665GC using a CPUSB01 adapter was recently totaled and as expected there was an issue with the recording as soon as the engine stopped. In fact the camera footage ended approximately one second before the other vehicle impacted ours. Everyone was fine and the footage up until that point told us everything we needed to know, but obviously not having footage of the actual impact and any events after that is less than ideal. For the next vehicle I'm searching around for better hardwire kits, possible even a UPS type with its own battery. I'd be interested to hear what other people have used.
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Nov 11, 2016 23:58
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DethMarine21 posted:I was going to ask about how well you liked the Lukas kit but forgot. I used this Lukas UPS kit, I haven't had an accident but it works great. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00CHYKOD0/. I just have it tied into the power port in my glove compartment, but it can be hard wired. I didn't want to get into loving with the electrical system of my car though.
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Nov 14, 2016 17:47
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It's not bad. I bought a couple fuse tap kits. You tap the ACC wire (on the Lukas type-C) to something that is only on while your car is on, and the B+ wire to something that's constantly on (tail lights, whatever). Definitely need a digital multimeter to figure out what is what though, and to figure out which side is the output.
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Nov 14, 2016 17:59
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Henrik Zetterberg posted:It's not bad. I bought a couple fuse tap kits. You tap the ACC wire (on the Lukas type-C) to something that is only on while your car is on, and the B+ wire to something that's constantly on (tail lights, whatever). Definitely need a digital multimeter to figure out what is what though, and to figure out which side is the output. If you have an aftermarket radio I'd say just wire it in to the adapter harness (you DID use an adapter harness, RIGHT?). Pretty much every radio has both constant and switched-on and they're typically really easy to get to.
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Nov 15, 2016 08:06
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Someone did not like my side-facing cameras. Smashed a rock through the window and literally ripped the camera out (pulling the metal sheath of the USB plug itself away from the pins as well).  Nothing else stolen.
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Nov 15, 2016 08:10
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:Someone did not like my side-facing cameras. Smashed a rock through the window and literally ripped the camera out (pulling the metal sheath of the USB plug itself away from the pins as well). That sucks. Now you need another camera to point at the replacement camera.
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Nov 15, 2016 09:41
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Oh yeah, and don't fuse tap anything critical like the airbags 
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Nov 15, 2016 17:08
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Maybe he was taking away the camera to deter you from the CP you're obviously filming in that van. YIKES!
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Nov 17, 2016 00:27
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I actually would not put it past some mouthbreathing dumbass to see a camera pointed out the side, assume "that's fer takin peepin tom pictures!" because that's what they would do with it, and smash it up out of a terribly misguided sense of vigilante justice.
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Nov 17, 2016 01:05
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jonathan posted:Maybe he was taking away the camera to deter you from the CP you're obviously filming in that van. YIKES!
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Nov 17, 2016 01:11
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Mystery solved, boys! My gas cap (about a foot below the break in the picture) was missing, as I discovered at today's fillup. So, siphoned gas, saw camera, smashed and bailed. EXCEPT! I still got 17mpg on my fillup today, which is actually better than average. So maybe I just forgot the cap at the pump, and this was just a random act of violence. Or he peed in it, and was drinking nitromethane. So, mystery not solved.
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Nov 17, 2016 01:14
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:So, mystery not solved. Attempted and failed to siphon gas?
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Nov 17, 2016 04:20
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Seems pretty likely. A lot of folks don't realize gas tanks aren't what they were in the 60s.
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Nov 17, 2016 05:00
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Godholio posted:Seems pretty likely. A lot of folks don't realize gas tanks aren't what they were in the 60s. Yeah, but I bet Gierskogul's tank is pretty similar to whatever they used in the 60s. Surely they didn't change that much?
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Nov 17, 2016 12:18
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Whoops...forgot which vehicle it was.  Yeah, I'd be mildly surprised if there was an antisiphon valve in there.
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Nov 17, 2016 17:06
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More likely their hose wasn't long enough (tank was pretty low tbh) or they simply panicked, I guess. Or got distracted by the camera and their destruction of it and ate up their time. And trust me, there's no antisiphon screen.
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Nov 18, 2016 05:50
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Dope fiends will break window thinking your dash cam is worth enough money to get high. They will break window if you have loose change in plain sight. It's not a mystery, really
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Nov 20, 2016 01:35
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I had a sweet XJ that got stolen and was found a few kms away. They stole the Cragar soft 8 wheels ($28 each from summit racing) and the battery and they cut out the catalytic converter. Insurance wrote it off because they took a knife and sliced up the carpet. Like jigsaw puzzle pieces.
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Nov 20, 2016 06:00
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I bought a dashcam back in 2014 and don't have a power cable for it. It looks like it uses a mini usb for power but I was wondering if anyone was familiar with these or knows where to get an extra cable. http://imgur.com/Lvk5rNA http://imgur.com/SHSpK7y http://imgur.com/ITeMtpk http://imgur.com/5SgoDMe
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Nov 26, 2016 18:09
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The USB looks like Mini-A, the other looks like a Mini HDMI. Monoprice is probably one of the cheapest sources for USB and HDMI. Every cable I've bought from them has been high quality.
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Nov 26, 2016 18:12
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Godholio posted:The USB looks like Mini-A, the other looks like a Mini HDMI. Monoprice is probably one of the cheapest sources for USB and HDMI. Every cable I've bought from them has been high quality. Thanks, that's what I was thinking too. Will 15 feet do it for a compact car?
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Nov 26, 2016 20:22
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Where's it going?
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Nov 26, 2016 22:54
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Godholio posted:Where's it going? Front, somewhere. Either behind the mirror or just in the top left of the windscreen.
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Nov 27, 2016 01:20
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I mean the cable. Why do you need a 15 foot USB or HDMI cable?
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Nov 27, 2016 02:25
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I could see using 12-15 feet if you are running the cable from the cig lighter/accessory port, to the side of the car, up the A pillar, to the mirror in a descrete manner (under trim and the head liner)
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Nov 27, 2016 02:52
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Brigdh posted:I could see using 12-15 feet if you are running the cable from the cig lighter/accessory port, to the side of the car, up the A pillar, to the mirror in a descrete manner (under trim and the head liner) Yep, that's exactly the plan. Sorry, should have been more clear.
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Nov 27, 2016 03:24
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They usually include a cable of about that length anyway. I still had like 6ft left over though my car is reasonably small and lacking in structural safety compared to most new cars.
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Nov 27, 2016 08:26
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Second time I've seen one of these obnoxious LED assholes on the road: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvIC9Ewh_0g&hd=1
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Nov 30, 2016 03:39
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seems like nothing you couldn't fix with a .30-30
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Nov 30, 2016 05:04
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Brandishing a weapon is like a class 3 felony, doe
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Nov 30, 2016 05:12
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He'll spend the ad revenue on extra fuel to drag around that sail.
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Nov 30, 2016 05:33
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Cocoa Crispies posted:Second time I've seen one of these obnoxious LED assholes on the road: This would make the world's best third brake light.
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Nov 30, 2016 07:16
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I cannot imagine that I could mentally justify being behind that car and not turning on all of my offroad lights. If I'm going to stare at the surface of the sun while I'm driving, I'm going to need to light the road to that level also, so that I can drive safely. Of course, I'd probably also just get in front of him and turn the backup lights on, but that's harder to actually justify. I mean, it's not that hard, but ...
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Nov 30, 2016 07:17
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Bet that does wonders for fuel economy. I hate the drop when I put my roof rack (even with nothing on it) on.
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Nov 30, 2016 07:19
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Seat Safety Switch posted:This would make the world's best third brake light. Yeah I can see it now: STOP! *pause* At Albertson's for a great sale on pineapple!
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Nov 30, 2016 07:37
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Krakkles posted:I cannot imagine that I could mentally justify being behind that car and not turning on all of my offroad lights. If I'm going to stare at the surface of the sun while I'm driving, I'm going to need to light the road to that level also, so that I can drive safely. I posted this in the "people you share a road with" thread ages ago, but on my route home, we had the most obnoxious billboard for a golf club which was just a few words on a glaringly bright white LED background. It was the size of a shipping container and really low to the ground so you just couldn't avoid being blinded by it. It was so bright, I could have read a roadmap inside my car from 50 metres out. Even the side streets. This isn't that sign, it's one I found through google, but it shows just how bad this thing was:  How the hell it was legal I'll never know.
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Nov 30, 2016 07:41
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Gorilla Salad posted:I posted this in the "people you share a road with" thread ages ago, but on my route home, we had the most obnoxious billboard for a golf club which was just a few words on a glaringly bright white LED background. It was the size of a shipping container and really low to the ground so you just couldn't avoid being blinded by it. 
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Nov 30, 2016 08:21
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I want that sign and I'd just program it to say "please turn on your headlights" and I could turn it on and off as appropriate.
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CharlesM posted:I want that sign and I'd just program it to say "please turn on your headlights" and I could turn it on and off as appropriate. Mine would say "please turn off your piece of poo poo purple aftermarket glarelights before I ram you"
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