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runtohell121 said:niko said:runtohell121 said:Right now I'm technically thinking how am I getting power to the dash cam. I really don't like wires hanging around.. but I don't want to route the wire through the A pillar and fuse box etc. Too much work and not sure of my skills, especially on a new car, I don't want to mess up anything.
If you dont want to route cables, - other solution is take power from reading light, but this is in many cases even more complicated, especially if not familiar with car plastics dis-assembly and other electrical wires / cables / soldering.
Easiest way is to run dash camera power cable through A pillar to the fuse box, actually it is not as hard as you think. THen, if you do not want to cut original dash camera cigarette charger plug, just buy external cigarette charger female socket plug and connect to the fuse in the fuse box ACC fuse:
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Buy simple 2-3 usd 12v tester,
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find which fuse is ACC, or most cars have free fuse sockets ( without fuse ) which have ACC ignition power running into it, use that socket with ready made fuse tap-in bigger or smaller size depending on where you connecting it to:
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Thats not a rocket science.
Or pay some small money for any car electrician can do it for max 10-15min full installation.
Might consider paying.. but there is DIY instructions already posted on another forum specific for the car I have on how to hardwire something into the fuse box. I might consider doing it myself, just that if in the future, I upgrade to a newer/better dash cam, I would want the existing wiring be functional to the new one. So if I do it, I would probably want a high quality cable and hoping most if not all the dash cam uses the same adapter (Mini USB(?))..
Yes, there are many discussions on how to hardwire, I think the best one was from MTZ, you may go through other threads and find it.
Most popular China dash cams uses 5V universal mini usb, but even if having mini usb not always all pins inside it are matching other dash cameras usb cable pins and in some cases you will not get automatic turn on recording function, or no charging at all, or something else. But it is only 10min job to change old dash cam wires to new one if you will buy a new one in future.
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