Danky Franky
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Can I connect it to the cigarette/power thing in my center glove box? Does it need power or can I charge it and use it without wires? Thank you to any who take the time to answer this.
Holy cow! If I can, I'll just plug it into the cigarette/power thing. I don't know how to mess with fuses. I hope the a 129 can connect via the cigarette/power thing.the 12 V socket in cars, you can get a loose DIY one and wire that one into a socket under the dash and then plug the provided power source into that ( and i recommend tape the 2 together so they can not wiggle apart )
Then you of course also need a fuse adapter to plug / piggyback on a fuse in the car, what one you have to figure out there are a few different sizes of these so called ATO or blade fuses.
I got the a 129 pro. It has a cigarette lighter thing. Thank you! Only thing is it doesn't seem to come with a mount. I have to leave it up which will mean that it will get stolen.Thats no problem, 99.9 % of cameras are aimed at plugging into the cigarette lighter socket.
The only maybe in your case is you say "center glove box" which i assume are a small closable compartment on the center console, but the dashcam plug do protrude some when it is plugged in, so if there is a lid and it is too close you might not be able to close it, though the wire might also make that a problem.
My sisters car ( A Ford focus ) had a lighter socket on the center console too and it was no problem using that with the camera i put in her car.
Just giving you some options, you should of course only do what you feel like, and most are good with the regular way of powering and do not mind loosing that socket to the dashcam.
Others do not like a wire draped cross more or less of their dashboard, and others like to have that socket open for charging their phone or other devises.
And if your DIY skills are not strong, or your supply of tools are none existing then you can not hard wire a camera, so if you want to go that route you can have a car audio or alarm shop do the install, it should not take more than 1 hour to do.
But you should be very good to go with the viofo camera and your socket in the car, so plug and play.
You can find many tutorial videos on youtube on how to install a dashcam, it is pretty much the same with all cameras and cars so no need to look for the exact model you are going with.
Thank you! I gotta take mine down or I won't have it very long. Thanks for the information!I think the camera slide off the mount ( in which the GPS antenna are ) i think it slide on / off sideways.
Most of us leave the camera in the car, though of course when my car was broken into and ransacked on January 4 i did get a camera vandalized and my mirror torn off, but my cameras are still in the car.
You can of course take the camera with you, or at least put in the glove box, but i think the people who do that is a minority.
Installed properly on the top of the windscreen, and if possible partly on a dotted / shaded area so the lens peek out below it, then wedge cameras such as the A129 will just appear as yet another sensor.
This is in my car some years back.
What you want to focus on if you plan to take the camera off the mount is to have room for it, my first wedge camera that slide up to get off the mount, i almost put it too far up the windscreen and barely had room to get it off the mount.
And getting it off at least when you clean your windscreen on the inside are nice, i use to just slide them off and let them dangle in the wire draped over the mirror, this way i can be more vigorously when cleaning the windscreen on the inside and not get anything on the lenses.
This approach to cleaning of course necessitate you have a bit of slack wire above the headliner.
Thank you! I gotta take mine down or I won't have it very long. Thanks for the information!If your car have some sensor array on the windscreen you probably want to mount the camera to either side of it, again you must factor in a little wiggle room to be able to get it off the mount, at least for cleaning.
Of course in my car with 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 cameras, it is hardly stealthy, but one camera should be very stealthy in my car mounted mostly on the dotted area on front of the mirror, in which case just the bottom 1/3 of the camera are visible below the dotted area.
And you should strive for a stealthy install, it is best if no one dont know you have a camera, in which case they will not hide who they really are, or in worst case try to take your camera or at least render your proof of their wrong doing useless.
In Denmark at least i dont have to submit anything at the scene of a crash, not even if it was a major lethal crash where a crash scene investigate will be present and a slew of cops, though in that case i would say i have a camera but i will not be sharing anything right there, that he will have to wait for until i get home.
And of course i would also submit to my insurance no matter if the other part tried to weasel out of it or not,,,,,, just to prompt insurance companies to consider giving a discount to people with a camer as it make their job so much more easy figuring out who is to pay.
The A129 doesn't seem to have that issue, at least not with normal use. It can be a problem on other cameras.Just be advised repeated install / detach can make the mount loose and so the camera can begin to rattle a bit, not sure how it is with viofo but some provide a thin PUR pad that can go between the mount and camera to stop the rattle.
There are also other "ghetto" mods for this, the main thing is to fill the gap that have occurred, so no problem we will deal with that if / when it happen, we are always here to help.
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