My mini 0801 "instructions!!!" warn that the camera won't like high temperatures -- but a warm sunny day can heat the dashboard top so much you can't bear your hand on it. So what's happening to the camera, stuck to the windscreen like a geranium in a greenhouse? Any of you out there suffered a "cook-off" with a camera that no longer works 'cos of the heat? I'd very much like to know please. In fact I'm thinking of knocking up some type of silver plastic sunshade for it when I'm parked in the sun. Jonnor
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Shade might help a little bit, but in hot sunny day when car is parked, temperature inside car may reach maximum limit of dashcam battery causing different bad things. Thats why its not recommended to leave for longer period battery operated dascams inside car in hot weather.
Best choice is capacitor based dashcams.
I also was concerned being in Florida. So (1) I never leave the camera mounted unless parked in the shade. Have not experienced any problems with mount. (2) I installed a piece of aluminum tape, painted black, onto the windshield above the camera to further block the sun while driving and finally painted the top of the camera with a flat white paint to reflect heat. We have already hit 90 degree days and measuring the temp of camera it is about 95 to 105 degrees while operating. It was getting over 120 degrees before taking these steps.