SawMaster
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Just an update. I finally chose this cam https://www.amazon.com/gp/B01IJPH22Gand it just arrived today. Though the seller said it could be left plugged in for constant power, they failed to mention the power port is on the side under the endcap which hides the SD card giving the game away
But luck did come my way, this cam is powered by an 18650 LiIon cell which is easily changed out and I've got good ones to use instead of the generic one they supply. And I'd recommend not leaving this cam plugged in constantly as the charger parameters are unknown and with LiIon cells if things go wrong the results can be very, very nasty
But with one of my 30Q cells I expect that it will work for long enough as this cam uses motion detect so it's not a constant high current draw. Not mentioned in the ad is that it comes with a generic 8GB card, which I'll test with but I also got a Transcend 400X 32 GB card that should work in it. That card will be rotated with my old Samsung EVO 32GB card until I can get another Transcend. Given the expected usage this should be more than enough card size.
It does seem well made from the outside and extra effort went into that packaging and user-manual English translation which usually means the product will be equally good. And it's as stealthy as the pictures suggest. Only those looking for a hidden cam with some knowledge of them would ever notice the ruse with this one.
I'll post more on this later when I've had a chance to test it properly.
Phil
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It does seem well made from the outside and extra effort went into that packaging and user-manual English translation which usually means the product will be equally good. And it's as stealthy as the pictures suggest. Only those looking for a hidden cam with some knowledge of them would ever notice the ruse with this one.
I'll post more on this later when I've had a chance to test it properly.
Phil