The Viofo a139 camera freezes and gets hot when it's sunny

[joe384]

Currently running off a cellink B with the original viofo cig lighter adapter. I can't be sure it's heat I must admit, but at least one time the cellink still had a lot of charge left.

I will start checking the footage each day to see when it turns off. I also have a little switch box in line which I will take out as it's not currently needed.

Maybe I will upgrade to the A229 Plus, will have to check the reviews to see if I think it is worth it.

 

[joe384]

Checked it lunchtime today, car is very hot, facing south. Dashcam was off, pressed power button and connected to wifi.

Looks like it was in parking mode from about 8:30am to 9:30am then no more.

Don't think the cellink run out because I was able to use it on wifi for about 10 mins

Left it to see how it goes.

 

[joe384]

So that after that it went for 25mins or so and then shut down.

Tuesday I parked in an underground car park and the camera was still running after 7.5 hours.

Wednesday unfortuately I ended up parking outside south facing, parked up around 09:15am, camera shut down after 1.5 hours or so.

Inside the car it was seriously hot - Trying to take my steering lock off I really needed oven gloves

So I don't really blame the dashcam, I think any would shut down in those conditions.

Back in 2019 we had some very hot summer days and I don't remember my A129 Duo ever shutting down. I don't know if that design is better or it may have been due to the direction of the windscreen when parked.

I am going to see if I can reposition the camera again, so the main unit is on the windscreen frit.