I've been thinking about the
OP of this thread........
"Just wondered who has had their Mobius the longest on here and if it's still going strong?", so I thought I'd share my experience.
This has been one of the harshest, coldest winters in memory here in rural New England and my truck lives out in the driveway with no garage. The result is that as of yesterday I couldn't exactly remember when I last checked the footage of my rear facing Mobius because climbing around in the back of my vehicle to retrieve the microSD card is about the last thing I feel like doing in this weather. (Here it is the 4th of March and we are still getting temperatures in the single digits and it snowed yet again last night!, Ughh!)
There have been quite a few times over the last month or so when the temperature has been well below zero (Fahrenheit) and my Mobius cam flashes red three times on start-up but then won't begin recording. It takes about 60-90 seconds for the DSP to come up to temperature so that the camera can begin to operate and it then needs to be rebooted with a quick unplugging and replugging when that happens. According to
@Isoprop, the DSP is rated down to 14 degrees F and that is indeed about the temperature below which the start-up problem manifests.
So yesterday, I decided that I really ought to have a look at the footage and see how everything is working (or not). After transferring all the clips (5 minutes each) to my computer and reviewing them I found that the camera is functioning absolutely perfectly and hasn't skipped a beat. It just keeps recording and overwriting the older footage as it should. The only issue is that when the ambient temperature fell to the extreme of -12 degrees Fahrenheit below zero (-24.4 Celsius) the lens went slightly out of focus until it warmed up and then returned to normal.
I've talked about these cold weather Mobius issues elsewhere here at DCT but didn't really get into the reliability of the footage too much. I thought I'd post about it here because this camera is a first generation Mobius (with a "B" lens module and super-capacitors installed) and despite the difficulties in extreme cold weather it is a true workhorse, doing what it is supposed to do, day in and day out for well over a year now.