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Despite the name dash cameras have always been for windscreen mounting, up high there you also get a much better view where as down in dash altitude you could run over a child and not have it appear on the video.
Well probably most so if you drive a pickup.
Some have mounted small action cameras with dashcam features on the dash, often on a mount stalk some inches high, but still low that you could put a cap on the camera when not in the car CUZ on the dash a camera are of course very visible.
At least compared to a stealthy mounted camera on the windscreen, one slammed light in the middle of everything are of course very visible.
You might want to browse backwards thru the picture thread showing off how people have mounted dashcams in their car, some times you do have to be a little creative due to layout challenges in a particular vehicle.
Cameras are good, it is for sure the short cable. Used the long cable to test both cams and they are fine. When using the short cable on both cams, neither worked. If these plugs are standard, what are they called? I can try to find some locally (highly doubtful though). I wouldnt mind making it...
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The cameras people mounted on the dash was the old Mobius cameras, which still exist and there are even a 4K version out now, they are generally battery cameras, which are a bad thing in a car that can get both horribly hot in the summer and cold in the winter, but there are options to add super capacitors or get versions with capacitors for use in cars.
The downside is these little ( matchbox sized ) cameras is they have no screen, so a bit more complex to set up, also as they are action cameras ( meant for installing on RC planes ASO ) they do not have GPS ASO though that is also not a must have, the cameras that do have GPS it is not like they can compensate for daylight savings like our phones and computer do automatic.
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