g1wh racks up 3000 hours..

[petepete]

Pair of them actually, and they have been 100% reliable using genuine Kingston 32gb cards ..

Reliability confirmed, picture quality remains incredible for the price and now using vlc player video tweeks to view night recordings ... I remain at a loss as to why anyone other than a dashcam obsessive would pay multiples of the price for what remains a minor increase in quality of picture on a raw file - especially if the form factor is the same !

 

[russ331]

So what? Celebrate if either of 'em lasts for a year. They won't.

 

[kamkar]

Thats a lot of recording time 🙂

 

[reverend]

125 days 🙂

You definitely got good ones there - were they from the same seller again? I wonder if because they're always running it's less stress on the components? Although saying that these are hard wired aren't they from what you've said - did you use the original chargers or something else for these?

 

[petepete]

So what? Celebrate if either of 'em lasts for a year. They won't.

ey dear russ... 3000 hours at say 10 miles an hour is equivalent to 30,000 miles use so I d say they have more than done a years use , but hey, you want to remain negative, fine by me !!!

Rev...

both from amazon, different sellers and different qualities. The quality one (£10 dearer) uses its original charger as it didn't interfere with the radio and the non quality one has an old 2a satnav charger..

I ve measured the amount of capacity left in the batteries which is down to a couple of minutes on both and the front cameras battery has expanded a bit through heat ... other than that ,nothing untoward and files are always saved on shutdown and I have only re formatted the cards the odd time when i ve slipped the SD back in with the camera already powered which it doesn't like, and have had no loss of files or recording quality.

Familiar with damp moist air and its effects on electronics, I chose to constantly heat the hot water in my motorhome which is next to the mega expensive electronic control board and I dont have the common circuit board fails others have, nor any condensation on cold surfaces they all moan about and maybe in a similar way the slight heat generated in the camera s makes all the difference.

Never measured the humidity in a car never mind a cabrio, but my guess is it would easily top the stated levels the camera should operate at on a damp winters morning....

 

[russ331]

Running 24/7 for 63 days per camera doesn't impress me. I'd be much more impressed by a few hours use every day for a year with, say, 3 starts a day.

 

[petepete]

Running 24/7 for 63 days per camera doesn't impress me. I'd be much more impressed by a few hours use every day for a year with, say, 3 starts a day.

I would be thinking Cameron diaz rather than dashcam for a few hours use and 3 starts a day !!!!!

massive sun, 100mph+ combined speed and it gives a readable passing number plate which is rather amazing for a entry level camera if camera s are your thing !

http://screencast.com/t/c9d3bRmUUrt

 

[jokiin]

Running 24/7 for 63 days per camera doesn't impress me. I'd be much more impressed by a few hours use every day for a year with, say, 3 starts a day.

Actually impressed that they still work after 2 months of continuous use

 

[rudolf diesel]

My g1wc didn't last 30 hrs.

Worked great while it did.

Only thing I ever really did to it was remove the front cover. I did remove then chrome ring when it looked like it was pushing on the lens in an attempt to get it to work.

It would lock up randomly, then the picture went all "white line-y" one day and it just got worse from there. Seller asked me to do a firmware update and it bricked solid.wont evenpower on now. Seller is sending a replacement once I find a spare minute to send it back to China.

 

[reverend]

Give me Cameron Diaz and it would be all over in seconds (the best few seconds of her life though), never mind 3 starts a day! I'd need the blue pill to make the most of it.

It's nice seeing these things pushed to their limits. Worst case the PSU usually gives out, the battery, and maybe the capacitors need swapping assuming they're big enough to swap- maybe they're SMT on these which would make it a ballache? I'm crap at soldering but brought a few things back to life by using decent caps.

I guess they have to bake in a lifespan on these so they can sell more. So many things are built to last only so long these days.

Not sure if this was just beer talk but but I heard years ago that a famous brake company up over in Chapel-in-le-Frith came up with brake disks and pads that would last longer than the car. They didn't dare sell them as it would have put them out of business so put them on their company cars instead!

Not sure if that's what Kwik Fit use these days?

 

[reverend]

My g1wc didn't last 30 hrs.

Worked great while it did.

That's usually more like what the posts are like at the moment. Saying that the driving instructor up the road has an EPrance G1W hanging from his window and it hasn't moved so looks like he's had no problems with that one either yet!

 

[rudolf diesel]

Darn, now all I can think about is Cameron Diaz's legs........well, more than that but that's all that's fit for mention in a "G" rated forum!

🙂

Dang, now I have to go watch the movie "sex tape" again!

Lol!

 

[petepete]

Actually impressed that they still work after 2 months of continuous use

russ 331 worked out 3000 hours wrong -

They have run 4 months.

I see no reason they/"she"😉 shouldn't complete many more hours ....



reverend -

couldn't get spare brake pads for my lotus elise as they stopped making them as they were ceramic and supposed to last the lifetime of the car. At 45,000 miles when I sold it, the discs were as new and the pads a quarter worn and believe me the brakes were well used in never getting more than 3,000 mile out of a set of tyres never having spun the wheels ! There was a dangerous design fault - cruise a wet motorway seldom using brakes and when you come to brake there is absolutely no braking force as the coating the pads put on the disc to enable braking is washed off and the only way to keep them braking was to remember to dab the brakes every so often to have brakes when you needed them !

I loved the car on our country lanes, no brake fade, perfect handling, unbelievable agility that could match powerful bikes - 😀

 

[DT MI]

My g1wc didn't last 30 hrs.

Worked great while it did.

....

That's usually more like what the posts are like at the moment. ...

One has to be careful about taking negative comments on internet forums as being typical. People with problems are much more likely to search out a forum for solutions and/or sympathy than those who are having a trouble free experience and just go on living life day to day.

Negative comments are likely exaggerated in the case of low cost products (G1Wx, Mini 080x, etc.) that are more likely to be 'cloned' using the cheapest materials and production methods to attract buyers whose purchase decision is driven by cost alone (consider the proliferation of counterfeit 'Sandisk' memory cards.)

 

[reverend]

These are already clones of the LS300W / GT300W - it just gets messy when they're even cheaper clones of already cheap clones!!

 

[rudolf diesel]

One has to be careful about taking negative comments on internet forums as being typical. People with problems are much more likely to search out a forum for solutions and/or sympathy than those who are having a trouble free experience and just go on living life day to day.

Negative comments are likely exaggerated in the case of low cost products (G1Wx, Mini 080x, etc.) that are more likely to be 'cloned' using the cheapest materials and production methods to attract buyers whose purchase decision is driven by cost alone (consider the proliferation of counterfeit 'Sandisk' memory cards.)

While I would normally agree, my case is real.

I have several positive things to say about my g1w-c and I was sharing them when it did work. K would do the same now if someone asked.

It was the "real" g1w-c with the higher end processor, imager and supercap.

However didn't get 30 hrs out of it. I am also not just on the forum to b*tch about it or make other negativd comments. I was on the forum before it stopped working. It is a simple fact that it was working and now it is not.

Isolated defect in a lower priced cam or typical of the breed I cannot say.

All I can say mine is mine didn't last 30 he's before it went terminal.

To the sellers credit, they are replacing it and covering the return shipping costs.

Even if it does have to take a "slow boat to China".

🙂

 

[DT MI]

While I would normally agree, my case is real.

I have several positive things to say about my g1w-c and I was sharing them when it did work. K would do the same now if someone asked.

....

I did not intend to imply that these situations/incidents/failures are not real and legitimate, they obviously are. My apologies if my choice of words left a different impression.

The point I was trying to make is that internet forums, by their very nature, tend to attract more people who are having problems than those that do not.

As a rule there are 4 types of people that make up, I would guess, 98%+ of the membership in on-line forums:

1) Enthusiasts - These tend to be hobbyists, manufacturers, retailers, etc. (Think 'Reverend', 'Jokiin', Pier28' as just 3 examples in this forum, there are many more)
2) Researchers - People who research products before purchasing (I put myself in this category)
3) Avid users - People who want to gain as much knowledge about products they own and use (I'm also in this category)
4) People with problems - The majority of the remaining forum members. They have issues and are looking for help.

One group ('Group 5') you don't see are those people who have a product they bought and it works as intended 'out of the box'. They're really not 'into it' to the same degree as the first three groups and since they don't have problems they just go on with life and the forum is unaware of their existence. Because they are never heard from it leaves the impression that there is a greater incident of problems than there really is.

My own experience is that automotive forums are a perfect examples of this type of demographic. Based on just about all published data the Toyota Highlander is one of the better vehicles made but if you were to go to the Highlander forum(s) you could easily get the impression that every unit coming off the production line has some significant faults.

 

[petepete]

coming up to 5 months constant running...with the odd night off when windscreen is frosted...

all is well bar a failure to start this morning at -2c ... a quick reset and we are off again..

 

[boilers]

do you or anyone have current link to good/genuine one being offered for sale?

 

[DT MI]

https://www.amazon.com/gp/B00HMNFWYW
I have 2 of these and have been happy with them so far (mine were sold by Black Box and fulfilled by Amazon). Both have been good down to 0 degrees F.