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Nothing is an absolute 100% perfect exact science end to end especially electronics.
Electronics is an exacting technology and yet somehow when it comes to digital electronics it's still kinda' part Vooddoo.
Nothing is an absolute 100% perfect exact science end to end especially electronics.
the camera has multiple voltages in use for different parts, 1.8v, 3v, 5v etc, add firmware into the mix and it starts getting more complex, power supply stability is an important part of the process, I wouldn't have expected the results you were getting from the problem you found but you learn not to be too surprised when things like this turn out to be something you never considered, an odd one that's for sure
Nothing is an absolute 100% perfect exact science end to end especially electronics.
I read through both pages of Dashmellow's dilemma and after he mentioned a couple of times that unplugging and reconnecting the lead the GC worked fine until the next failure.
I was thinking to myself maybe there is short or broken wire/s in the lead, but there was no way known I was going to go up against jokiin & jon and suggest it.
Luckily for me I reached the end of page 2 and Dashmellow had located the problem himself.
I guess I'm a little puzzled about how you could conclude that the problem I reported might indeed be "a short or broken wire/s in the lead"
I have experienced various types of wire connections (not just USB cables) with a break in them many times before, just by moving them a fraction in any direction would make them work.
You mentioned that several times that you would unplug the cable and re-plug it in and the dash cam would then work, that is where I drew my conclusion from, it had to be a wiring problem for my money. I also could have been totally wrong, just look back at post #21 above.
interested to know if it works ok once the weather warms up a bit more, might be a sign of some component that is starting to fail that becomes a problem in the cold conditions
are you able to set it up using the included power cable for a while, I know we go back to power and memory being the two most common points of failure but I know in our own lab testing not starting when cold has been a problem that could be reproduced with some power supplies and also some memory cards
I can try that, at least on a temporary basis.
yeah was only suggesting as a test to see if the problem remains or not
with a cig charger I would generally just unplug from the socket, pulling in and out of the camera is too much mucking about, was only if convenient, if not then that's understandable
the temps are below the rated temp of the processor which it normally deals with ok, maybe as it has aged it has lost some tolerance to the cold starts, hard to know for sure