Capacitors Vs lockdown

[sludgeguts]

Quick reminder for those who have a capacitor instead of a battery in your dashcam. Caps tend to lose their power after a few days (mine's about 10 days) so the date & time will be awry. Now might be a good time for some housekeeping, bring the cam inside, take out the card & clean it up (clean the contents & the contacts!) as well as making sure your date/time are set. maybe put a reminder on your phone's calendar to plug your cam into a USB supply every few days, just to keep things sweet.
Last thing you need is to go out & have some idiot hit you & the cam not work properly - and the idiots are really out and about, local police are saying they've caught loads of speeders doing 100mph + as well as dangerous drivers...
Stay safe guys.

 

[jokiin]

probably should be in the Mobius section, doesn't affect capacitor based cams that have RTC batteries

 

[SawMaster]

Good advice. And good to see you're still here with us!
Stay safe, and wishing you unlimited and happy travels soon

Phil

 

[TonyM]

probably should be in the Mobius section, doesn't affect capacitor based cams that have RTC batteries

This might affect early B1W cameras without an RTC battery IIRC, although I checked ours yesterday and the date was still correct

 

[jokiin]

This might affect early B1W cameras without an RTC battery too IIRC

think that was first production version only

 

[TonyM]

think that was first production version only

Yes, I did say early version