Ok thanks. I had the camera out of the car so I guess that's why I didn't see it.It is in the settings (only when parking mode cable is detected.)
Ok thanks. I had the camera out of the car so I guess that's why I didn't see it.It is in the settings (only when parking mode cable is detected.)
Holy moly. Ok I’ve been through all kinds of crap trying to get my DC 55 parking mode cable to work. I’ve purchased two cables just to be sure. Constant to positive terminal, ground to bare metal ground, Acc to switched 12v. The dc never powers on that way. Powers fine with the cigarette plug. Thoughts? I’ve wired several cams this way and also to the fuse box. Neither way works with this camera. Help!
Holy moly. Ok I’ve been through all kinds of crap trying to get my DC 55 parking mode cable to work. I’ve purchased two cables just to be sure. Constant to positive terminal, ground to bare metal ground, Acc to switched 12v. The dc never powers on that way. Powers fine with the cigarette plug. Thoughts? I’ve wired several cams this way and also to the fuse box. Neither way works with this camera. Help!
I initially had problems setting my DC 55 up too. Then I realized that my battery was down a bit so I turned on the car to charge up the battery for 15 minutes and voila, it works like a charm. Also, make sure the fuses you are connecting too actually are the ones that it says in your cars manual as they could be wrong (found that out while hooking up a stereo years ago.
11.8V is too low for a healthy car battery. 11.7V is the default cutoff so you may be hitting that.I had used a multimeter to check my connections and the car was putting out 11.8 volt so I think it should have worked
If the cutoff really is higher than that then the cable is useless because it won't even work overnight
11.8V is too low for a healthy car battery. 11.7V is the default cutoff so you may be hitting that.
Anyone measured battery usage over extended periods - eg if I set parking mode to 2/4/8/12 hours what is the likely mAh used for those periods - maybe allowing for 'quiet' (not much recording, just the buffering) and 'active' (lots of recording eg false positives due to movement)?
I'm wondering whether to switch my nextbase to a Garmin - I have a 512GW in my BMW and a Garmin 55 in my wife's VW. I like the prebuffering and the time limit of the garmin plus the adjustable voltage cutoff help protect the car battery. But it does seem quite trigger happy with just movement (including wind/rain) so might hit the car battery too much if I run it eg all day in a car park.
The Nextbase can run off internal battery to avoid using the car battery, but only has a 2 wire hardwire kit and a very low unchangeable voltage cutoff so I'd probably connect to an ignition source not permanently live. And although only shock driven, it still seems very trigger happy and you can't adjust the sensitivity.
How often should you check the SD card for these saved videos in park mode? of course you would check it if you notice something that happened to the car, seems crazy that it could fill up and not be useful when you start driving!
When camera is in parking (stand by) mode, the LED is blinking. Also when you turn off your engine there is a message that tells you that camera is going into the parking mode.
To set the battery discharge voltage, you will have to open the parking mode accessory module. Look at the pics I posted in another thread.
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