trez
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I'm sure all of you guys have been there. I'm now on my 3rd dashcam and I can't believe how frustrating it is to find a quality product. Thank you for this site!
First I bought a Spy Tec A118-C from Amazon. That worked perfectly but somehow it would turn off when I started my car and I had to hit the power button again for it to come on. It was because of the delay in the capacitor and there was no fix. Essentially, when I opened the car door it would turn on, but when I turned on the car, if I didn't do it in the first 10 second or so, that disruption in power would turn it off but not back on again since the capacitor didn't notice the power coming back on in the short outage. Hope that makes sense. And since the Street Guardian looks very similar I'm really weary of trying that for $200+ just to have the same results...
Then I bought a Rexing F9. This thing was very unreliable and would blackout all the time and die but the image quality was excellent. One day, about two weeks in, it just died and never recovered.
Then I thought, okay, forget all these cheap chinese brands, let me buy a nice off the shelf name brand. So I ended up buying a Garmin Dash Cam 20 from Best Buy. This thing was really great out of the box but the image quality was kinda poor. Fine I was willing to live with that. But then about 3 weeks in, it has started to routinely freeze on me. I think once the card fills up it just doesn't know how to overwrite the files fast enough and just hangs. WEAK SAUCE!!!
So now I'm just frustrated and want something that works.
I've bought two hardwiring kits so far for a total for $40 and have spent countless hours doing really clean installs only to have to return it again. I'm hoping to find something with a very reliable firmware but I also do want a screen (So the Mobius is not an ideal choice for me). I want the unit to be hard-wired using the existing mini-usb if possible and I want it to just work every time. I know that's too much to ask. Any recommendations on a camera with a proven firmware that works every time with a hardwired setup?
First I bought a Spy Tec A118-C from Amazon. That worked perfectly but somehow it would turn off when I started my car and I had to hit the power button again for it to come on. It was because of the delay in the capacitor and there was no fix. Essentially, when I opened the car door it would turn on, but when I turned on the car, if I didn't do it in the first 10 second or so, that disruption in power would turn it off but not back on again since the capacitor didn't notice the power coming back on in the short outage. Hope that makes sense. And since the Street Guardian looks very similar I'm really weary of trying that for $200+ just to have the same results...
Then I bought a Rexing F9. This thing was very unreliable and would blackout all the time and die but the image quality was excellent. One day, about two weeks in, it just died and never recovered.
Then I thought, okay, forget all these cheap chinese brands, let me buy a nice off the shelf name brand. So I ended up buying a Garmin Dash Cam 20 from Best Buy. This thing was really great out of the box but the image quality was kinda poor. Fine I was willing to live with that. But then about 3 weeks in, it has started to routinely freeze on me. I think once the card fills up it just doesn't know how to overwrite the files fast enough and just hangs. WEAK SAUCE!!!
So now I'm just frustrated and want something that works.
I've bought two hardwiring kits so far for a total for $40 and have spent countless hours doing really clean installs only to have to return it again. I'm hoping to find something with a very reliable firmware but I also do want a screen (So the Mobius is not an ideal choice for me). I want the unit to be hard-wired using the existing mini-usb if possible and I want it to just work every time. I know that's too much to ask. Any recommendations on a camera with a proven firmware that works every time with a hardwired setup?