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Mine seems to not do a soft shutdown on power-loss, as if the caps aren't doing their job. The last file of every trip gets corrupted. Other than that, I've been having a lot of fun putting it through its paces these last few days.

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Happy birthday, jokiin!

So, on the subject of antenna proximity to camera, how close is too close? I have the camera on one side of the rear view mirror and antenna on the other. Could this be the reason for my GPS locking issue?
 
This1GoesTo8 said:
Mine seems to not do a soft shutdown on power-loss, as if the caps aren't doing their job. The last file of every trip gets corrupted. Other than that, I've been having a lot of fun putting it through its paces these last few days.

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That's not right, was that from @Pier28 ?
 
This1GoesTo8 said:
Mine seems to not do a soft shutdown on power-loss, as if the caps aren't doing their job. The last file of every trip gets corrupted. Other than that, I've been having a lot of fun putting it through its paces these last few days.

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I just sent you an PM. This is the first potential RMA I am aware of but I am ready to sort it out ASAP.
 
IronLion said:
Happy birthday, jokiin!

So, on the subject of antenna proximity to camera, how close is too close? I have the camera on one side of the rear view mirror and antenna on the other. Could this be the reason for my GPS locking issue?
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That could be too close, depends what is between them, pull them apart from each other and see if it changes, if there's something else at play and needs sorting just let us know, we just had a large volume of these go out all at once so more questions than usual but we'll make sure to address any issues and ensure anyone that needs help is sorted asap
 
jokiin said:
That could be too close, depends what is between them, pull them apart from each other and see if it changes, if there's something else at play and needs sorting just let us know, we just had a large volume of these go out all at once so more questions than usual but we'll make sure to address any issues and ensure anyone that needs help is sorted asap
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Will do. I'll report back tomorrow. Thanks!
 
CoolyKid said:
Perhaps I didn't express myself clearly, or maybe you were just being a prick again πŸ˜•? Outside of the direct beam of the headlight it was just "black" - no peripheral vision at all - yet my own eyes which don't have infra-red capability (although they do have a purported dynamic range of 100dB) can still see objects, albeit dimmed as can my crappy Blackview. Maybe, incorrectly I did expect to see some dimmed objects outside the direct headlight beam rather than a "spotlight" effect - isn't that what the HDR adjustment can effect?
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Hehe, let me be a prick again πŸ˜›

Have you worked out why that is the case with what you can see and why objects outside the headlight beam looks black in your dashcam?

Because your eyes work a bit differently from the dashcam, that's why. When you turn your eyes to focus on the objects on roadside (not shone by the headlight beam) your pupils dilate to accommodate more light into your retina, so you can see those objects despite dimly. When you turn your eyes back on the road ahead (which is shone by the headlight beam), your pupils constrict to the brighter scene so you won't be "blinded". As for a dashcam, it's focus is always the same (in which case often the centre of the scene), since it has to adjust (darken) to the brightness of the road ahead which is lightened up by your headlight beam, the objects at the roadside will obviously be darkened too.

HDR (and WDR) in this case is not enough to compensate for the lack of light.
 
Well I did say peripheral vision, not looking from the headlight beam to the roadside, plus it doesn't account for the lesser spotlighting effect of the Blackvue. I am looking at the 2 videos, are you? πŸ˜•
 
jokiin said:
We still have some fine tuning to do so hope not to get judged too harshly
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No harsh judging here, I am very happy with the dashcam which is why I ordered 2 more units πŸ™‚ . I simply made an observation on the night vision from my wife's first trip home from work ( 2km) with the SG9665GC installed, bearing in mind that I hadn't at that stage been into the menu system and made any adjustments to the settings. @efoo appears to want to "illuminate" me on dashcams, night vision, infrared, pupil dilation and etc. from this simple observationπŸ˜€

I do 90% of my driving during the daytime, (after all I am on the border of the Sunshine state) and another 4% of my driving would be at night with street lighting. Once I play around with the menu settings I may or may not post any observationsπŸ˜‰
 
It is very difficult to get the one size fits all firmware to suit every circumstance but we still work on improving the results to get the best we can out of it, we also want a bit more user adjustability there for those that want to fine tune to their own taste, that's still to come
 
Yooshaw said:
Is the white wire (Rx I believe) supposed to be hooked up? I don't think so, as the white wire was disconnected and much shorter than the other wires.
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Pier28 said:
It's a 4 wire cable but only 3 wires are used. You can leave the white one disconnected.

I need to re-do my flip the GPS video since I was using the previous model GPS. I'll get one posted shortly so people know "exactly" what to expect.
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CoolyKid said:
Well I did say peripheral vision, not looking from the headlight beam to the roadside, plus it doesn't account for the lesser spotlighting effect of the Blackvue. I am looking at the 2 videos, are you? πŸ˜•
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Peripheral vision is more sensitive to motion, while central vision is more sensitive to colour and focus. What you saw in your peripheral vision with your naked eyes are probably movement of roadside objects passing you by.

Also like you said, you haven't got a proper chance to set the dashcam up to your liking yet (unlike your Blackvue).

I don't own either a SG or a Blackvue, may be if you can post a side-by-side night video of them, so we can get a better idea. Cheers.
 
I collected my SG from Autobarn at Kilburn and installed it late this afternoon after flipping the GPS board (which Kong knew nothing about) with some final adjustments still to do.

The directions suggest fitting it to the LHS of the mirror where I have a large sensor for the headlights and wipers, so I installed the cam a little further to the left as it would have been near impossible to retrieve the SD card going to the RHS of the mirror. This has left me with a lopsided picture – slightly more left than right, but will suffice.

Question – When I upload vision to my computer it is stored in an RO (?) folder and is played by windows media player.

To view it in Registrator Viewer I have to 'add files' but cant find an option to save the files there. What am I doing wrong?
 
RO folder is Read Only, those are write protected files, either by G-Sensor or manually saved

If you use Registrator Viewer it should scan the drive and add all the files and sort them

Not sure what you mean by saving the files though, can you elaborate?
 
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