I don't want to continue my thoughts on this dashcam in the thread on the suction mount....so here's my thoughts.
I haven't used the camera yet, so I will follow up later after the first few uses, maybe others can chime in and point out things as well that can clear up any issues I may have.
First off, no suction mount. Looks like I need to use an aftermarket mount which a good link to one was provided.
There's two mounts, one flat and one angled. The flat mount seems to allow the rotating frame of the lens to contact the glass. When mounting in a road tractor or similiar with a near vertical glass, that's a problem.
The rotating lens has detents, but also has free movement between clicks, hopefully with bumps the camera doesn't rotate while driving, commercial vehicles don't have the smoothest ride. I'm going to go with the fact this was taken into consideration so I'm not going to fault the dashcam as of yet.
Looking forward to the footage, I was using the Dexors X7 which has a fantastic mounting system with very, very strong holding power of the suction mount. The mount is one small shortcoming of the Street Guardian IMHO, but I think I will be able to make this work as others seem to have as well.
I haven't used the camera yet, so I will follow up later after the first few uses, maybe others can chime in and point out things as well that can clear up any issues I may have.
First off, no suction mount. Looks like I need to use an aftermarket mount which a good link to one was provided.
There's two mounts, one flat and one angled. The flat mount seems to allow the rotating frame of the lens to contact the glass. When mounting in a road tractor or similiar with a near vertical glass, that's a problem.
The rotating lens has detents, but also has free movement between clicks, hopefully with bumps the camera doesn't rotate while driving, commercial vehicles don't have the smoothest ride. I'm going to go with the fact this was taken into consideration so I'm not going to fault the dashcam as of yet.
Looking forward to the footage, I was using the Dexors X7 which has a fantastic mounting system with very, very strong holding power of the suction mount. The mount is one small shortcoming of the Street Guardian IMHO, but I think I will be able to make this work as others seem to have as well.