Hello all.
Finally hard-wired my 650GW in to the fuse box last night.
BMW 5 Series (F11) RHD
Multi-Safer yellow cable connected to Fuse 21 (always on fan)
Multi-safer red cable connected to ACC power.
Multi-safer black cable connected to bolt connected to outside.
I routed the power cable around the right hand side headlining to the boot and it plugs in to the multi-safer
I routed the rear camera coaxial cable around the left side headlining to plug in to the front camera.
When I got in the car this morning and started it up, the camera said "Parking mode disable", then the camera said "BlackVue for your safe driving." and a bit later "The Blackvue is recording" but soon, both the red recording light and blue GPS light turn off. The camera doesn't state that it's shutting down.
About 15 minutes later, it again said "BlackVue for your safe driving." and I glanced at it and it was like it had rebooted.
It did this a further 4 times over an hour of driving. Powers up and then the lights go out.
At the same time it starts up, my radio seems to lose the DAB signal. It coincides with the "BlackVue for your safe driving." message.
I thought this might be an issue with interference from the rear camera coaxial cable, so I disconnected it from the front camera, but the issue still occurs...the camera doesn't stay on for more than a minute or two whilst driving and when it does boot up with the "BlackVue for your safe driving" voice notification, I lose the DAB radio signal until the camera powers off again.
I wondered if it might be a lose connection, but I physically held the power connector in to the camera and the same thing happened. The weird thing is, if I connect the coaxial cable the white LED on the rear camera is always on, even when the front camera is off, so I don't think it's a lose connection issue.
The Multi-safer is set to 12.2v cut-off, but the BMW iDrive gave me a warning that the the battery was discharging unexpectedly.
So what can I do to sort this? It took me quite a bit of time to hide the cable in the headlining so I would like to avoid having to pull it out again.
Sorry for the long thread but I thought I would include as much info as possible.
Finally hard-wired my 650GW in to the fuse box last night.
BMW 5 Series (F11) RHD
Multi-Safer yellow cable connected to Fuse 21 (always on fan)
Multi-safer red cable connected to ACC power.
Multi-safer black cable connected to bolt connected to outside.
I routed the power cable around the right hand side headlining to the boot and it plugs in to the multi-safer
I routed the rear camera coaxial cable around the left side headlining to plug in to the front camera.
When I got in the car this morning and started it up, the camera said "Parking mode disable", then the camera said "BlackVue for your safe driving." and a bit later "The Blackvue is recording" but soon, both the red recording light and blue GPS light turn off. The camera doesn't state that it's shutting down.
About 15 minutes later, it again said "BlackVue for your safe driving." and I glanced at it and it was like it had rebooted.
It did this a further 4 times over an hour of driving. Powers up and then the lights go out.
At the same time it starts up, my radio seems to lose the DAB signal. It coincides with the "BlackVue for your safe driving." message.
I thought this might be an issue with interference from the rear camera coaxial cable, so I disconnected it from the front camera, but the issue still occurs...the camera doesn't stay on for more than a minute or two whilst driving and when it does boot up with the "BlackVue for your safe driving" voice notification, I lose the DAB radio signal until the camera powers off again.
I wondered if it might be a lose connection, but I physically held the power connector in to the camera and the same thing happened. The weird thing is, if I connect the coaxial cable the white LED on the rear camera is always on, even when the front camera is off, so I don't think it's a lose connection issue.
The Multi-safer is set to 12.2v cut-off, but the BMW iDrive gave me a warning that the the battery was discharging unexpectedly.
So what can I do to sort this? It took me quite a bit of time to hide the cable in the headlining so I would like to avoid having to pull it out again.
Sorry for the long thread but I thought I would include as much info as possible.