Hi,
I bought Spy Tec A118C + their hardwiring kit (https://www.amazon.ca/gp/B00MH4ZVHO). Installed everything but noticed a weird issue: sometimes connecting the USB cable to the dashcam makes it enter in endless restart. Driving around a bit with the cable disconnected and connecting it again makes thing work fine.
I have 2 theories:
1) It's been friggin' cold in Canada these past 2 days (-43C/-45F), so it takes the cable or some of the components in that wiring kit time to warm up (I'm not an electrician, so no clue why that would matter). When it's warm, I can connect the camera without a problem.
2) AWG is on the low side. I tried connecting the camera to my PC today using a very thin USB cable (doesn't state AWG) and instead of going into the "low battery mode" (normal behavior) and presenting me with a menu to select camera/mass storage, it starts endlessly restarting just like in the car. Connecting it using a 28AWG USB cable makes it work right away.
It's going to warm up tomorrow (-8C/17.6F), so I'll to see if it's really the cold but somehow I think it's a combination of both.
Any ideas?
Thanks!
I bought Spy Tec A118C + their hardwiring kit (https://www.amazon.ca/gp/B00MH4ZVHO). Installed everything but noticed a weird issue: sometimes connecting the USB cable to the dashcam makes it enter in endless restart. Driving around a bit with the cable disconnected and connecting it again makes thing work fine.
I have 2 theories:
1) It's been friggin' cold in Canada these past 2 days (-43C/-45F), so it takes the cable or some of the components in that wiring kit time to warm up (I'm not an electrician, so no clue why that would matter). When it's warm, I can connect the camera without a problem.
2) AWG is on the low side. I tried connecting the camera to my PC today using a very thin USB cable (doesn't state AWG) and instead of going into the "low battery mode" (normal behavior) and presenting me with a menu to select camera/mass storage, it starts endlessly restarting just like in the car. Connecting it using a 28AWG USB cable makes it work right away.
It's going to warm up tomorrow (-8C/17.6F), so I'll to see if it's really the cold but somehow I think it's a combination of both.
Any ideas?
Thanks!