Strange recording gap through out night, after i change car.

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BASSstarlet

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I had no problem recording video, until I put the camera in another car of mine and noticed the following: From 01:30 to about 7:30, it had stopped recording. And unfortunately, during that time, someone tampered with my mirror! Is it possible that a voltage drop was to blame, so in the morning the battery returned to the correct voltage and the recording started??
 
Welcome to the forum BASSstarlet.

When did you park the car ?

If it was just some minutes before 01:30, then it is probably due to the car having shut off the circuit you are tapped into for parking guard.
What car do you have ??
 
No, I had parked it several hours before, and it was recording video normally, until that time. And it started again after 5-6 hours! In fact, the numbering of the videos had been messed up, as if the files had been deleted in between. Something that obviously wasn't done, at least by me!
 
Damn that do sound weird.
It could be low voltage cut off, but then not CUZ then it should not start up again many hours later.
It would also be strange is someone got into your car and deleted files, CUZ it would be so much more easy just take the whole system or at least the memory card.
 
car model might be able to help someone narrow things down, not me though the little mini car i drive is a Suzuki splash

Also dont think the camera could have been making event files that would be in another folder on the memory card, depending on what kind of parking guard you run.

Using low bitrate myself as a favorite, that’s also just fine and all footage there in the normal footage folder, but if there is a event trigger the footage still low bitrate go to the event folder, but your car experiencing a many hours long event sound too far out to be true.
 
Also i have no personal experience with this Viofo classic model, but i have run a few newer models of theirs, and always had good experience.
 
kamkar said:
Damn that do sound weird.
It could be low voltage cut off, but then not CUZ then it should not start up again many hours later.
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That's what i'm suspecting for the 5-6 hours gap in recording.
My other car has two batteries, so a low voltage cut-off is highly unlikely.
 
you could try and play with the cut off values, you can even try 11.8 volts to see if that make a difference, just not something you should use permanently CUZ that is a bit low for a lead acid battery and so will probably damage it.

I drove a Mitsubishi L200 strada back in the late 90ties and until 2006, it too had 2 batteries, though back then i did not do dashcams, but the one battery did tun the stereo which was a little bit amped up.
I know if i was to get to a place where i would prefer to do all the time / long periods parking guard, i would prefer to put a #2 battery in the car and on a splitter so i would not discharge the cars original battery.
Probably a AGM type battery that will handle lower discharges.
 
I can't "tune" the cut-off values :/
Sad thing is, tonight that son of a b... came back and keyed my front door but camera didn't catch his face 🙁(
 
BASSstarlet said:
No, I had parked it several hours before, and it was recording video normally, until that time. And it started again after 5-6 hours! In fact, the numbering of the videos had been messed up, as if the files had been deleted in between. Something that obviously wasn't done, at least by me!
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Have you checked all the folders on your memory card and found no missing video files?
 
I am glad i have a CCTV camera on my parked car, using optical zoom in the 20 -25 M distance i can get a identifying shot day or night, that will allow me to go vigilante seeking justice the law here will not give me.

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