Gary Edstrom
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I have had my DR900X 2CH for about a year now and have just made a discovery that I SHOULD have learned long ago: Leaving the WiFi ON reduces battery life! I have my dash-cam on 24/7. Besides for recording my driving, it is also a "Poor Man's" security camera in my condo complex. My parking space has an excellent view of our secured garage. So, with the permission of our condo association, I record activities in the garage 24/7 when my car is home. I use both a B-124 battery pack plus one extender pack to power the dash-cam. On a fully charged battery, I have found that it will power the system for around 36 hours. Since I normally do not do enough daily driving to recharge the battery pack, I plug it in to an external charger every morning for an hour or so. Normally, when I attach the charger, the battery pack still has maybe 8-10 hours left in it. Still, on irregular occasions, the battery pack would be dead when I came down in the morning. I didn't figure it out until yesterday, although I should have. If I the WiFi is accidentally left ON, it produces enough of an extra current drain to discharge the battery pack before I can get down to recharging it in the morning. WiFi OFF draws about 0.35 amps, while WiFi ON draws 0.45 amps. I do have the DR900X programmed to turn the appropriate indicator light on when WiFi is ON, but my camera is mounted behind my rear view mirror, so I can't see it form the normal driver's position. I will have to add a check to my daily routine that the light is OFF. I wish there were an option to have the WiFi AUTOMATICALLY turn itself off if it hasn't connected to anything in 5 minutes or so.