mlb406
New Member
Hi all,
About two months ago I got a DR750X Plus 2CH professionally fitted into my 2015 BMW F20 LCI - it was hardwired. Ever since then - no matter what I set the battery protection to in the BlackVue app, the dashcam seems to pretty much stay on all the time. As far as I understand from the company that fitted it and from threads on here, with Battery protection set to the soonest thresholds - 12.5V and 1H, the dashcam shouldn’t record any longer than 1H after ignition is switched off, if not sooner when reaching 12.5V on the battery.
My dashcam doesn’t do this - it carries on recording, in Parking mode if it’s enabled, in normal mode if it’s not, regardless of the battery protection voltage setting, with a cutoff timer too, or if it’s off completely. Since having it fitted, my car will often struggle to start, not dramatically but enough to make me notice that the dashcam has been running overnight, for example. Also, about 50% of the time I get a warning on the iDrive screen saying that the battery has been discharging, and to get this checked if it happens multiple times.
Something is definitely not right, I’m just not sure why it would blatantly ignore the battery protection settings - especially the cutoff timer (I don’t have a multimeter so I’m not physically able to check if the voltage is low enough to cutoff, but it has always shot straight through the cutoff timer when I’ve had it set).
Any help would be appreciated, if anyone would happen to have any ideas as to why this is going on. I’m worried I’ll go to my car one morning and it simply won’t start - I haven’t had chance to leave it for more than a few days but if I ever do, I don’t want to get stuck.
Many thanks
Max
About two months ago I got a DR750X Plus 2CH professionally fitted into my 2015 BMW F20 LCI - it was hardwired. Ever since then - no matter what I set the battery protection to in the BlackVue app, the dashcam seems to pretty much stay on all the time. As far as I understand from the company that fitted it and from threads on here, with Battery protection set to the soonest thresholds - 12.5V and 1H, the dashcam shouldn’t record any longer than 1H after ignition is switched off, if not sooner when reaching 12.5V on the battery.
My dashcam doesn’t do this - it carries on recording, in Parking mode if it’s enabled, in normal mode if it’s not, regardless of the battery protection voltage setting, with a cutoff timer too, or if it’s off completely. Since having it fitted, my car will often struggle to start, not dramatically but enough to make me notice that the dashcam has been running overnight, for example. Also, about 50% of the time I get a warning on the iDrive screen saying that the battery has been discharging, and to get this checked if it happens multiple times.
Something is definitely not right, I’m just not sure why it would blatantly ignore the battery protection settings - especially the cutoff timer (I don’t have a multimeter so I’m not physically able to check if the voltage is low enough to cutoff, but it has always shot straight through the cutoff timer when I’ve had it set).
Any help would be appreciated, if anyone would happen to have any ideas as to why this is going on. I’m worried I’ll go to my car one morning and it simply won’t start - I haven’t had chance to leave it for more than a few days but if I ever do, I don’t want to get stuck.
Many thanks
Max
