Recommend a cheapish Dash Cam ideally with recording impacts when parked from lighter socket?
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eg: Lighter socket - So what's the point behind them having batteries onboard if they don't do anything when parked (with no input power)?
very few of them come with batteries and those that do are only there for memory(time/data saving etc)
you'd want one hardwired to a proper "always" on point for it to sit there monitoring shakes/bumps etc when parked as those cameras come with voltage monitoring and so on to stop your battery from draining too low
If your car is a VW or Skoda the lighter socket is permanently on and leaving your dashcam permanently plugged in is a good way to flatten your battery. I'm speaking from experience here.
What you should get is an OBD power cable for your dashcam. It will keep your dashcam powered until the battery voltage drops.
https://smile.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B06XS33J2N
Interesting... So you just power the camera 24/7 and record 24/7 powered from the car battery. And that unit detects if the battery is getting low and stops charging?
I noticed this variant of your unit which I guess the dash cam's own wire could just plug into. ie: Feed the original dash cam wire around the car, into the glove box and connect it into the unit's extension lead there? - https://www.amazon.co.uk/REARMASTER...f=sr_1_1_sspa?keywords=obd+usb&qid=1578582112
If a dash cam is constantly powered and has a Parking Mode, how does it know when to enter that mode. ie: How does it know when a car is parked? Does it simply do this when it detects no motion/vibration for a period of time, and then go into its Parking Mode?
AHA! A friend of mine mentioned theirs can record for a while if it detects a collision, while parked, from its own battery...
It's this one - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Recorder-D...on/dp/B07FZ2DR4Q/ref=sr_1_6?crid=9CATRKOYZWKY
And indeed in one of the reviews for it the individual seems to back this up too:-
It's this one - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Recorder-D...on/dp/B07FZ2DR4Q/ref=sr_1_6?crid=9CATRKOYZWKY
And indeed in one of the reviews for it the individual seems to back this up too:-
It even has motion detection when the car is parked and uses the built-in battery to record short clips is anyone or thing comes close to your car while parked.
And:-Also impressed with the parking/G-Sensor mode. The camera has a battery that stores some power so if the car gets knocked when parked it starts recording.
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I don't personally think the battery claims for the linked cam to allow parking mode are true or accurate. The battery (or capacitor) is normally used so that the cam can tidily finish writing the current clip it is recording when the power goes off but for effective parking mode you need buffered parking mode. The difference is that the cam is monitoring, detects motion/knock, starts up and then starts recording so you miss the recording the actual event. With buffered parking mode the cam is always pseudo recording to it's internal buffer, detects motion/knock, starts up and starts saving the content of the buffer so the recording now has a few seconds before the event and continues recording for a set time.
For £38 notes it might be worth getting to see how you get on but I wouldn't be surprised if you end up being disappointed.
Also there is a huge dashcams thread, plenty of useful info in there.
For £38 notes it might be worth getting to see how you get on but I wouldn't be surprised if you end up being disappointed.
Also there is a huge dashcams thread, plenty of useful info in there.
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please see the official Dashcam thread, and go and read my post, as someone asked this before, and he ended up believing me (because he found facts) that, in order to do parking mode recording, you will need to get a battery pack as well (Cellink most popular)
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Impossible. How can it boot up and then record something after the event?
You have to have it powered and recording 24/7 and then set to lock recordings when it detects a knock.
In any case a large card will store at least a whole night's footage anyway.
I had mine on 24/7 and the car's 95Ah battery would last about 4 days, so I have changed it to only on with the ancillaries.
It doesn't claim to time travel...
The unit detects a knock, and ASAP starts recording which would hopefully catch the car that reversed into your parked card...
It doesn't promise miracles but may provide a clip...
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They come with two wires, one wire in to a constant live and the other in to a switched live. When it detects no power to the switched (when the ignition is off) it goes in to parking mode and only records when it detects a knock.
Don't want to record while parked up... As a secondary requirement though it would be a nice to have, that if a knock is detected while parked, the dash cam records for a while...
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thats the same as being parked up
Agreed, and the unit my friend mentioned above (which they have) achieves that goal from the lighter socket, using it's own battery to record a knock when parked...
Obviously I can't comment how effective it is...
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i think you need to understand this :
If you put a camera in your car that works when the your not there, means that it will drain the battery, if you check the footage daily or weekly for example, after a month or two, you will notice it will start recording less, and less, due to the fact your killing the battery
Why do you think i paid £200 for a dashcam, and another 200 for a battery pack ?
because it will kill your battery, saves me £100 on a new battery every 6 months to a year
If you put a camera in your car that works when the your not there, means that it will drain the battery, if you check the footage daily or weekly for example, after a month or two, you will notice it will start recording less, and less, due to the fact your killing the battery
Why do you think i paid £200 for a dashcam, and another 200 for a battery pack ?
because it will kill your battery, saves me £100 on a new battery every 6 months to a year
Please look at #9
Recording while parked (eg: a knock while you're parked) isn't my primary concern, but it's a very nice to have.