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Back to one of the original issues which bugs me too....
I've been looking for a solution to this (a switched USB cable) and just found it.
So I'll put that as nearly as I can, in my central console box, attached to the powerbank USB output socket, then to the USB cable which runs from there up to the dashcam. So I'll be able to switch off/on the dashcam at will, with the power source from the powerbank, recharged by the car (or the house).
Power links over USB cables will then be:
Car -> ultra short, high-capacity USB cable -> Powerbank -> USB switch -> 5m USB cable -> dashcam
I'm ordering a couple of USB testers as they advertise an on/off switch so might be a useful alternative when I want to generate power usage readings Inc discharge times.
All products are free shippingfrom AliExpress so may take a month or so to arrive!
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Thanks that USB on off switch looks useful for me ... if my power bank does not cut iff charging when you start to drain power. Still waiting for supply to confirm. ( they are not very responsive)
It has a output power on-off switch , so I need to know if that affects the charging input.
If not I will get one like yours.
I just bought a USB meter, and have ordered another.
It looks similar to yours but doesnt have an on off switch that button on mine chanhes the menu.
Interested to see when you get yours if it does in fact have an on-off switch.
When you say your engine is all covered / and refer to the price of diesel on your trip. Do you have a diesel engine in the S Class? Is it a 3.5L ? ... I am out of touch with Mercedes diesels, they seem to have changed so radically in the last 5 years.
If only I could find one of those 2:1 periferal sharing USB switches, that passed 5V and 1.5 amps, or at least 1A.
Then I would have the perfect system.
As I could think of my power sources (car or powerbank) as PC1 or PC2 and the output being the Dashcam.
Ergo leave the charging input always connected, because if I switched over to Battery power i.e. parking mode. Then by defacto the engine would be off so I wouldn't be charging my powerbank. Yet it would charge the Powerbank when I was driving.
All with a simple one press switchover!
But cant find one
Strange they dont make one to share one of these USB SSDs!