Identify power cable

[tfjackson2000]

Hi, does anyone happen to know which dash cam this power cable belongs to? It was already hard wired into a car I recently bought. I presumed it was a mini USB, but that doesn't seem to be the case. Thanks for any help.

 

[SawMaster]

Welcome to DCT @tfjackson2000

That looks like a "Micro Mini USB" to me; a good number of cams use that instead of Micro USB.

Phil

 

[Dashmellow]

Hi, does anyone happen to know which dash cam this power cable belongs to? It was already hard wired into a car I recently bought. I presumed it was a mini USB, but that doesn't seem to be the case. Thanks for any help.

That's actually called a Mini-B USB plug. Most dash cams use them, although that is slowly changing.

You'll usually see Micro or Micro - B on cell phone chargers, and various other devices.

A Micro USB looks like this:



Micro - B:


Mini- B:

 

[SawMaster]

Well darn me- I got it backwards Will go do some editing

Phil

 

[Dashmellow]

Well darn me- I got it backwards Will go do some editing

Phil

I've mixed them up too occasionally. Happens.

 

[DAP]

Mini B is pretty robust, Micro B is very fragile. I have broken several micro B connectors, never a mini-B. I had one micro B on a dash cam get broken by washing the inside of the windshield in the short time between when I first installed the camera and when the wire got stuffed into the head liner.

 

[tfjackson2000]

Thanks for the replies. I bought this adapter https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B086ZLPC4X so that I could use a micro usb dash cam but the adapter doesn't fit. I guess I bought the wrong thing! Thanks again for the help.