DaddyofTwo
New Member
Hi
Just sold my car which had a Thinkware F750 with a rear camera hardwired on it (couldn't be bothered to remove it as was getting frustrated with the constant "Format Data Card for Data Integrity" welcome greeting - I now have a large collection of SD cards of various makes in vain attempts to use a larger than 32gb non Thinkware SD).
I want to get a new dual channel for my new car. I use it pretty much every day but often only for 30 min journeys and it is left on the street. So yes I know that getting a decent parking mode solution is going to be difficult.
But the Thinkware always turned off after 15 minutes even with the battery full and on the lowest voltage setting - thereby making Parking Mode worthless. (Except for the one time when I caught a driver reversing his pick up into me as I returned to the car in the supermarket!!).
I now have an E Class 350d - so a chunky battery, but then again my old car was a Jag 2.2d so also a big battery and the F750 destroyed that in a few minutes of parking mode. How long am I likely to get before the system shuts down. Or am I still wasting my time even thinking about parking mode? (This all seems so silly when I believe that my mobile phone would go for ages on video mode when it has a physically tiny battery and has to power a screen. Also I am puzzled that so few reviewers seem to address this issue - am I missing something?).
My understanding is that:
1. Batteries won't work for me as they are not only expensive but take 90 mins to recharge and then only give about 12-24 hours unless one buys a stack of them. (And I am not going to muck around with recharging power packs every day at home, schlep lead batteries into my car, or point a CCTV from my house onto the car)
2. Nextbase's 522gw can go a long time on incident only mode - but takes 3 seconds to boot up. Does this that it is useless in practice?
3. Any camera below 1080p front or rear is a waste of time as it doesn't catch UK number plates.
4. A decent night vision is very nice but is secondary if the dashcam is not recording as the battery is dead.
Been looking at the IROAD x9, Viofo A129 (V2 or V3) and Thinkware F800 (does this also only work with mega expensive Thinkware SD cards??).
So my question is which decent two channel has the lowest power draw in parking mode - either:
a) 1 sec frame rate,
b) or buffered motion / impact
Sound is definitely not required.
Just sold my car which had a Thinkware F750 with a rear camera hardwired on it (couldn't be bothered to remove it as was getting frustrated with the constant "Format Data Card for Data Integrity" welcome greeting - I now have a large collection of SD cards of various makes in vain attempts to use a larger than 32gb non Thinkware SD).
I want to get a new dual channel for my new car. I use it pretty much every day but often only for 30 min journeys and it is left on the street. So yes I know that getting a decent parking mode solution is going to be difficult.
But the Thinkware always turned off after 15 minutes even with the battery full and on the lowest voltage setting - thereby making Parking Mode worthless. (Except for the one time when I caught a driver reversing his pick up into me as I returned to the car in the supermarket!!).
I now have an E Class 350d - so a chunky battery, but then again my old car was a Jag 2.2d so also a big battery and the F750 destroyed that in a few minutes of parking mode. How long am I likely to get before the system shuts down. Or am I still wasting my time even thinking about parking mode? (This all seems so silly when I believe that my mobile phone would go for ages on video mode when it has a physically tiny battery and has to power a screen. Also I am puzzled that so few reviewers seem to address this issue - am I missing something?).
My understanding is that:
1. Batteries won't work for me as they are not only expensive but take 90 mins to recharge and then only give about 12-24 hours unless one buys a stack of them. (And I am not going to muck around with recharging power packs every day at home, schlep lead batteries into my car, or point a CCTV from my house onto the car)
2. Nextbase's 522gw can go a long time on incident only mode - but takes 3 seconds to boot up. Does this that it is useless in practice?
3. Any camera below 1080p front or rear is a waste of time as it doesn't catch UK number plates.
4. A decent night vision is very nice but is secondary if the dashcam is not recording as the battery is dead.
Been looking at the IROAD x9, Viofo A129 (V2 or V3) and Thinkware F800 (does this also only work with mega expensive Thinkware SD cards??).
So my question is which decent two channel has the lowest power draw in parking mode - either:
a) 1 sec frame rate,
b) or buffered motion / impact
Sound is definitely not required.