How hot did the car get? Are we talking parked in full sun in Death Valley or are you in Alaska?...Well the other day I did not unplug it....
Should cope with that easily, and it should only get slightly warm plugged into the computer so send it back. I guess it has had a battery failure.I am in southern CA. The car was in the shade with sunroof and back window open. No direct sunlight on the cam. The air temp was in the low to mid 80s inside the car was about the same as the outside air. maybe a few degrees warmer.
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Agree well worth getting it hard wired to the car.Leaving it on in a parked car in the sun with the windows closed would not be wise so it is worth getting it hard wired into a circuit that gets turned off with the ignition if your accessory socket doesn't turn off.
no problem, I speak fluent ChinglishThanks. I knew the term "heat sink" but not "fin*
I think in this case it is decent English, cooling fins are what you find on heat sinks, in this case the case of the camera, made out of thermally conductive plastic, is the heat sink so when you add to it you will add cooling fins.no problem, I speak fluent Chinglish
I've been running maximum resolution with S.Fine (a little over 20Mb/s) and seeing 45 degrees C case temperature with ambient temperature around 25. i.e. as long as the sun is not shining directly on the camera then it runs about 20 degrees C above ambient. Direct sun can add another 20 degrees C. All measurements with a cheapish IR thermometer, it's normally very accurate on plastic.Those of you providing temp measurements at different pixel densities, what 'data rate' setting were you at (s.fine, fine, normal)? Just curious; I'm currently set for 1080p and "s.fine", with WDR on if that does indeed make a difference.
May throw my IR thermometer into the car tomorrow on the drive in; we're having a slightly cool spell right now but it's August in TX...that'll change.