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Run the camera off a separate power source temporarily. If that fixes the problem, you need better power filtering/isolation. If it doesn’t, the camera is radiating directly and more drastic measures are called for.
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One thing to keep in mind is that cigarette lighter ports have pretty notoriously lovely grounds, so if you have anything going anywhere near that circuit you're likely to need a ground loop isolator to keep it from feeding tons of noise.
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Feb 4, 2017 06:59
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The wierd this is that I haven't noticed any changes since I setup my blackview camera. No loss of stations. No buzzing, nothing.
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I put a Dod Tech DOD-LS470W in my new mustang, with a rear view mirror mount and a hard wire kit. The guy who did the hard wire install said that the mustang doesn't have any switched connections, so the cam is always powered, and I have the remember to turn it off. Assuming I forget to turn it off, how bad a drain on the battery would it be? I'm not terribly worried about leaving it run when I do groceries, or whatever, but since I work out of my house I don't have a daily commute and it can be days between outings.
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Feb 5, 2017 01:39
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LongSack posted:The guy who did the hard wire install said that the mustang doesn't have any switched connections I refuse to believe this. Surely something like the power windows or stereo go off with the key?
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Feb 5, 2017 01:47
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LongSack posted:I put a Dod Tech DOD-LS470W in my new mustang, with a rear view mirror mount and a hard wire kit. The guy who did the hard wire install said that the mustang doesn't have any switched connections, so the cam is always powered, and I have the remember to turn it off. The guy is probably wrong. Every single 12v source on the inside of my Focus appears at first glance to be unswitched, but they all shut off after about 5 minutes of leaving the car. Unless the guy hardwired it into something other than the cigarette lighter or accessory circuit, I'd bet that it will shut off after a while.
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Feb 5, 2017 01:48
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The Locator posted:The guy is probably wrong. Every single 12v source on the inside of my Focus appears at first glance to be unswitched, but they all shut off after about 5 minutes of leaving the car. I'll test that out, thanks.
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LongSack posted:I put a Dod Tech DOD-LS470W in my new mustang, with a rear view mirror mount and a hard wire kit. The guy who did the hard wire install said that the mustang doesn't have any switched connections, so the cam is always powered, and I have the remember to turn it off. Your installer is a moron. No mass market car built in the past 20 years has direct battery power to everything. There are dozens of circuits that are switched. Your camera probably draws 5 to 10W, depending on the screen and whatnot. It wouldn't kill a good battery overnight, but probably would of left over a weekend. : Edit: it comes with a 1A 5v power supply, which would max out at 5W. So it draws less than that. sharkytm fucked around with this message at 02:42 on Feb 5, 2017 |
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Feb 5, 2017 02:39
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sharkytm posted:Your installer is a moron. No mass market car built in the past 20 years has direct battery power to everything. There are dozens of circuits that are switched. Best Buy  The hardwire kit came with connectors that looked like they go on a fuse block? I am not electrical. I have no idea what he hooked it up to. Will need to find someone who can fix it, I guess.
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I doubt the dashcam actually draws 5 W. My laptop idles at around that. The camera hardware is largely driven by cellphone development, which puts a premium on low‐power design. I’d estimate at least a week to drain the battery. Can you configure the camera to automatically power down? If you can have it shut down after twenty‐four hours, I would’t bother to wire it to a switched circuit.
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Feb 5, 2017 03:17
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I wired my Mobius with a switch in the power cable so I can leave it on when I leave my car in a parking lot while I shop. I frequently forget to turn it off when I get home, I've left it on for three or four days over a long weekend and my car hasn't had a problem starting.
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I am looking to replace a cam that was stolen a few months ago. Having had a hard time finding one that unclips easily from the mount. Thinking about the Aukey DR-01 https://www.amazon.com/AUKEY-1080P-Vision-Dashboard-Camera/dp/B01M592J9C/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8 Does anyone have experience with an Aukey cam?
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Feb 13, 2017 18:40
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I have a different one. I work on a military base, so I have to remove it every time I enter the gate; I use 3m Dual Lock to stick it to the trim above the windshield, no problems with the camera or the "velcro" yet. Though it's been disconnected most of the winter because I had to pull all the wiring out while doing a heater core replacement and haven't gotten around to rewiring it.
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Feb 13, 2017 19:08
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Wouldn't the cam bounce a little once the velcro wore down a bit? I just cannot believe its hard to find a good quick release mount.
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Feb 13, 2017 19:15
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Probably, eventually. I ran it for about 3 months (in a Jeep, so not the smoothest ride) and never saw any degradation. But when it does happen, or when the glue (which is really good) finally starts to fail from the hot/cold shifts, these things are cheap to replace. But if you find a mount that doesn't go on the windshield, post up. I gave up after a few weeks of searching.
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Feb 13, 2017 19:42
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Dual-lock does wear out eventually. I used it for a while to hold a transponder in my RC cars (one transponder, three cars) and eventually wore it out after a few months of racing.
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patonthebach posted:Dear dashcam thread, gently caress. And you just turned off the highbeams, yeah?
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Godholio posted:Probably, eventually. I ran it for about 3 months (in a Jeep, so not the smoothest ride) and never saw any degradation. But when it does happen, or when the glue (which is really good) finally starts to fail from the hot/cold shifts, these things are cheap to replace. I have seen a clip that goes on your visor for the mobius.
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Feb 13, 2017 21:39
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I made the mount for my Mobius out of some fairly thin aluminum. I found a socket in my toolbox about the same size as the rearview mirror mount and bent it around that. Drilled a hole in it and used a very short 1/4-20 bolt to mount the camera to it. I never do but the camera can be removed in about 10 seconds with no tools. It was supposed to be temporary until I made or found something better but it's been working great since I got the camera about two years ago.  I put a switch on it (the black round one) so I can leave it on when my car is parked. The power adapter is hidden between the headliner and the roof . I forget if I pulled the power from the map lights or the sunroof. Either way, no blown fuses or other problems and it's all mostly hidden. 
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Meydey posted:I am looking to replace a cam that was stolen a few months ago. Having had a hard time finding one that unclips easily from the mount. Thinking about the Aukey DR-01 Don't know anything about the Aukey, but Dod makes a mount for their cams that attaches to the rear view mirror post, and the cams detach from it very easily. I had their LS460W in my truck, and put the LS470W in my mustang. With a hard wire kit it looks quite nice. I, personally, hate sticking stuff to my windshield with suction cups, because it never stays there.
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nm posted:I have seen a clip that goes on your visor for the mobius. I use my visor regularly. Hooray for staring at the sun on the way to and from work, and on windy roads that require swiveling the visor all over the drat place.
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Based on the board layout and reviews, and watching every bigclivedotcom video, the Aukey is the exact same as the $35 dashcam. Click the "?" under my name to find a link, and reviews. BTW I've revived one of mine by doing a firmware update, and using a 32GB SD card max.
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Godholio posted:I use my visor regularly. Hooray for staring at the sun on the way to and from work, and on windy roads that require swiveling the visor all over the drat place. Passenger visor? I'm too tall to use visors (literally I cannot see out of the winshield with the visor down, even half way on like all cars) so this is something I have never thought of.
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I end up using both. It's a pain, but better than not.
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Do various dashcams all join to their mounts using a standardized interface, or are they all different? Asking because the mount for my Genius is falling apart and I need a new one (along with a new battery but that's a different issue).
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Leperflesh posted:Do various dashcams all join to their mounts using a standardized interface, or are they all different? Asking because the mount for my Genius is falling apart and I need a new one (along with a new battery but that's a different issue). I've seen quite a lot that use the same mount bracket the G1W uses, but there's definitely not an agreed upon standard as far as I can tell.
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I got an a119 a few weeks ago and so far so good. It's got that night time hot pixel issue some people were talking about, but it's not really bad enough that I want to go through the whole procedure to fix it or return it. The plan was to just plug it into my headunit temporarily until I had the time to wire it into the fuse box and make it all pretty, but I came across this usb splitter cable that splits the power but keeps the data wires on only one of the connectors. So now everything is wired up nicely and tucked away, the camera comes on only when the radio has power, and I can still listen to my mp3s. Here's the cable I got if anyone else is lazy like me and wants an easy solution https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B017OQ26OA
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Scruff McGruff posted:I've seen quite a lot that use the same mount bracket the G1W uses, but there's definitely not an agreed upon standard as far as I can tell. If it has a screwthread, then it's probably a standard tripod screw, so I suppose there is some commonality there
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Not me but I wish it was, I lust for Beetle death https://i.imgur.com/Er76yRS.gifv Not sure how they expected this one to go, even passing a big truck you should still be able to see the giant fuckoff trailer just ahead, and it looked like they were already driving on grass just to get around the first vehicle 
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Feb 16, 2017 03:49
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Hitler would be proud. 
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Yeah he mowed down that first highway marker right after coming into frame...pretty sure he was on the edge of control already. I'm impressed he didn't flip it.
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Takes No Damage posted:Not me but I wish it was, I lust for Beetle death As far as I can tell, the dashcam truck is hogging both lanes in an effort to stop the bug from trying to do a stupid overtake since the lanes are merging. The bug tries to pass on the inside and the truck starts pushing it out to the right instead. Then it turns out you can't easily do high speeds with half your tires on grass and half on asphalt.
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Andohz posted:As far as I can tell, the dashcam truck is hogging both lanes in an effort to stop the bug from trying to do a stupid overtake since the lanes are merging. The bug tries to pass on the inside and the truck starts pushing it out to the right instead. Then it turns out you can't easily do high speeds with half your tires on grass and half on asphalt. I assumed the cam truck was with the Semi, usually wide load trucks like that have a lead and trail car that also have flashing lights and "Oversize Load" on them and are basically there for stuff like this, making sure to body block idiots that don't know how to read or know what flashing lights mean.
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Andohz posted:As far as I can tell, the dashcam truck is hogging both lanes in an effort to stop the bug from trying to do a stupid overtake since the lanes are merging. The bug tries to pass on the inside and the truck starts pushing it out to the right instead. Then it turns out you can't easily do high speeds with half your tires on grass and half on asphalt. No so much hogging both lanes, as moving over since it's the left lane that is ending based on the arrows painted on the road. No way to tell if it was being done to block the bug or not really.
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The Locator posted:No so much hogging both lanes, as moving over since it's the left lane that is ending based on the arrows painted on the road. No way to tell if it was being done to block the bug or not really. I didn't mean it in a judging way, I''ve seen people do it and it seems like a perfectly safe thing to do if it stops people trying to shove through, especially if the truck is a signal truck for the semi.
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I do it in the ambulance if it's a known problem point or ramp. For instance, there's this ramp we take regularly by Sky Harbor that is wide enough for two lanes all the way to the end, where it goes suddenly to one lane, with a stop sign. I think it used to have lane lines painted, because there's a sign right at the beginning of the ramp that says "left lane ends," but there hasn't been any painted in the 5 years I've been down. Since the ramp is a very steep uphill grade, then at the very end it goes to one lane as it crests a hill (with a stop sign immediately over the crest), I always hog "both" lanes in the ambulance to prevent anybody passing on the right or doing other bonehead maneuvers right into that stop sign. Hey, no lane lines so as far as I'm concerned, it's one wide lane. For those that live in Phoenix, the ramp from Sky Harbor Circle North, northbound, to Washington/Jefferson and the 51/202/10. What a cluster gently caress of road design.
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never lift also diggin the username + post combo
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I think that was a trailing truck doing exactly as he should be on body blocking against stupidity on the truck. You'll notice that the over sign is blink fairly slowly compared to the size sign which is constantly blinking thanks to the beacon just below it. So I'm assuming the over is reflecting the beacon lights on the trailing vehicle. Also, that semi looks to have merged as late as possible. He was probably waiting for the all clear from the trailing vehicle to have made the merge first to block others from getting in between them.
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Wow!! Armor All dash cam!! The brand I think of when I think of dash cams.
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