outofthebox
New Member
dear niko, thank you for sharing this activity and the superb ’surgery’. well done!
inspired by your review elsewhere in this sub forum, I ordered my first dash cam last week (a B40 of course).
reading this thread today aroused my DIY ghouls and I ordered a few 10F Nichicon super caps.
i’m toying with a slightly different idea for the supercap implementation, and I will appreciate any comments/suggestions on this -
why not do a hybrid battery-supercap implementation at the 5V power supply end? this gets done externally without disturbing the cam itself.
my ‘candidates’ to retrofit the two 10F supercaps are -
a) any cigarette lighter usb power adaptor, like the one in the B40 review.
b) a 12V to USB hardwired type of box
c) If nothing else, point-to-point soldered male and female USB A sockets and the supercaps.
this way, the battery life might improve slightly and secondly this rig then becomes reusable across different cams.
cheers!
-ootb
inspired by your review elsewhere in this sub forum, I ordered my first dash cam last week (a B40 of course).
reading this thread today aroused my DIY ghouls and I ordered a few 10F Nichicon super caps.
i’m toying with a slightly different idea for the supercap implementation, and I will appreciate any comments/suggestions on this -
why not do a hybrid battery-supercap implementation at the 5V power supply end? this gets done externally without disturbing the cam itself.
my ‘candidates’ to retrofit the two 10F supercaps are -
a) any cigarette lighter usb power adaptor, like the one in the B40 review.
b) a 12V to USB hardwired type of box
c) If nothing else, point-to-point soldered male and female USB A sockets and the supercaps.
this way, the battery life might improve slightly and secondly this rig then becomes reusable across different cams.
cheers!
-ootb