Parking mode
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Hello,
This depends on how it's being powered. There's two different type of fuses in a vehicle- switch live fuses and permanently live fuses.
A Switch Live Fuse provides power to the ports only when the car's ignition is turned on. When the car is switched off, the ports will also be turned off and the camera will not receive power. These are usually Cigarette Lighter Ports (12V).
A Permanently Live Fuse will provide power to the ports at all times, whether the car's ignition is on, or off. You'll be able to identify this as the camera will be permanently on. These are usually fuses within the fuse box that can be used with a hard wire kit.
The Hard Wire Kit will allow the camera to draw nominal current from the car's battery, preventing the cam's battery from being drained. The Hard Wire Kit has an in-built voltage cut off which protects the car's battery from being drained below 11.2V.
If you want to use Parking Mode, we'd recommend using a Permanent Live fuse position, and then enabling Parking Mode on the camera.
Parking Mode will turn the camera off when there's no movement in the car (e.g. parked), and prevent the camera from unnecessarily using your car's battery power.
If your dashcam is being powered using a permanently live fuse, we do not recommend having Parking Mode off as the camera will record continuously. If this happens the SD card will fill and overwrite multiple times per day, rendering any footage useless.
Please let me know if you have any further questions.
Kind regards,
Millie
Nextbase Technical Support
This depends on how it's being powered. There's two different type of fuses in a vehicle- switch live fuses and permanently live fuses.
A Switch Live Fuse provides power to the ports only when the car's ignition is turned on. When the car is switched off, the ports will also be turned off and the camera will not receive power. These are usually Cigarette Lighter Ports (12V).
A Permanently Live Fuse will provide power to the ports at all times, whether the car's ignition is on, or off. You'll be able to identify this as the camera will be permanently on. These are usually fuses within the fuse box that can be used with a hard wire kit.
The Hard Wire Kit will allow the camera to draw nominal current from the car's battery, preventing the cam's battery from being drained. The Hard Wire Kit has an in-built voltage cut off which protects the car's battery from being drained below 11.2V.
If you want to use Parking Mode, we'd recommend using a Permanent Live fuse position, and then enabling Parking Mode on the camera.
Parking Mode will turn the camera off when there's no movement in the car (e.g. parked), and prevent the camera from unnecessarily using your car's battery power.
If your dashcam is being powered using a permanently live fuse, we do not recommend having Parking Mode off as the camera will record continuously. If this happens the SD card will fill and overwrite multiple times per day, rendering any footage useless.
Please let me know if you have any further questions.
Kind regards,
Millie
Nextbase Technical Support
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