Hardwiring dash cam - which fuse??

forgotmyname

He doesn't need to pull a fuse the power is right there in the picture with a big yellow arrow pointing to it. 

Interior lighter socket 24/7 live,  camera ignition only live. Or move the fuse and swap that around.

JustAnotherSaver

Scrapit said:

Thats just the 12v plug. Buy a hardwire dash cam kit off the bay for dead cheap. Then pull a suitable fuse, plug kit in empty fuse slot, put fuse into dash cam kit slot, wire to earth, hide wires without destroying too much internal trim. 30 mins work including drinking tea.

I thought kits were specific to the cameras that they are for?

I only thought this because i was seeing results for "hardwire kit for Nextbase...." so figured that the kit is specific for a Nextbase (or a VIOFO or any other brand...) and would not be suitable for another camera??

I searched (weeks ago) for a Mio Mivue hardwire kit. The best i found was something to do with parking modes. I don't much fancy having it running all the time.

Would these things be suitable for the camera i have then?

eBay 1 - providing my device is Micro USB (i'd need to check)

eBay 2

I don't need to buy anything specific for the Mio Mivue?

JustAnotherSaver

Resurrecting a thread a little but i always think it's disappointing when you read a thread and never know what the outcome was or someone never posts back to say thanks or whatever.

I know it's something-or-nothing to you guys but it was something that baffled the hell out of me. Electrics just goes way over my head. Anyway with a large chunk of help from this thread as well as some YouTube videos I was able to hard wire the dash cam in this weekend and so far the car hasn't set on fire. The hardest part was tucking the wire up in the head lining in and about the rear view mirror and feeding in to the glovebox from the rubber door seal. Aside from that it wasn't too bad after all.

So just wanted to update and say thanks for the help.

JustAnotherSaver

Spoke too soon.

I knew i couldn't do something without it going wrong.

Installed everything seemingly as instructed. First couple of days fine. Then one morning the screen was just grey. It lit up but it was grey. Had never happened before. I thought maybe it was due to the frost but then it can't be as it's been much colder when i had this camera in my old car and there was never a problem. In the end i had to unplug it while at a set of red lights, let the display die, plug the cable back in the camera and it started up fine then.

The day after that there was another recording issue. I forget now what the camera was acting like.

Then there was days of it being fine. Today as i drove the camera kept flashing up 'Start recording' on the screen randomly, which is what is shown the moment you start up the car, so it's as though it was losing power and regaining it again.

I've just gone in to the memory card on my PC and noticed that my entire drive to work one morning didn't record. The drive is about 30 minutes. I don't actually remember anything unusual about the camera display that day - it looked like it was recording fine enough.

I don't know if this is something i've done with the install or whether it's the hardwire kit itself or what. The previous installer who's a car audio guy actually hardwired a female 12v socket behind the dash and used the cameras actual power supply. I don't know if this is why it's suddenly acting up (because i'm not using that) or what.

Scrapit

JustAnotherSaver said:

Spoke too soon.

I knew i couldn't do something without it going wrong.

Installed everything seemingly as instructed. First couple of days fine. Then one morning the screen was just grey. It lit up but it was grey. Had never happened before. I thought maybe it was due to the frost but then it can't be as it's been much colder when i had this camera in my old car and there was never a problem. In the end i had to unplug it while at a set of red lights, let the display die, plug the cable back in the camera and it started up fine then.

The day after that there was another recording issue. I forget now what the camera was acting like.

Then there was days of it being fine. Today as i drove the camera kept flashing up 'Start recording' on the screen randomly, which is what is shown the moment you start up the car, so it's as though it was losing power and regaining it again.

I've just gone in to the memory card on my PC and noticed that my entire drive to work one morning didn't record. The drive is about 30 minutes. I don't actually remember anything unusual about the camera display that day - it looked like it was recording fine enough.

I don't know if this is something i've done with the install or whether it's the hardwire kit itself or what. The previous installer who's a car audio guy actually hardwired a female 12v socket behind the dash and used the cameras actual power supply. I don't know if this is why it's suddenly acting up (because i'm not using that) or what.

Sounds like a next base, works really well, takes great videos, then just seems to go a bit odd once the warranty has run out.

JustAnotherSaver

Scrapit said:

Sounds like a next base, works really well, takes great videos, then just seems to go a bit odd once the warranty has run out.

Not sure if you're guessing my make or if you're saying it's similar to how Nextbase's are. If the first one then it's a Mio Mivue 618.

The unit itself is set to record in 3min clips. In my last car most of them would be exactly that but you'd randomly get clips chopped up. Some times it'd be just a 1 second clip followed by another 1 second, by a 5 second clip by a 3 minute clip. If you put them all together in video editing software it'd make the full clip fine enough. No idea why it did this. My wife has the 698 version which is basically the exact same but with rear camera and hers is fine so i assumed it was something with my last cars electrics.

Then i had it in my current car using the units own power supply and not a problem at all. Every single clip was 3min in length and it recorded just fine. Nothing missing whatsoever. It worked as it should do.

Then i bought this: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Universal-Hard-Wire-Fuse-Box-Car-Recorder-Dash-Cam-Hard-Wire-Kit-Mini-USB-UK/333622402699?ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT&_trksid=p2060353.m2749.l2649 and hard wired it in. The issues have been since this.

For the record its piggy backed in to the 12v socket fuse.

JustAnotherSaver

After research, it may be due to the cheapy unit i bought off eBay. Supposedly may not be up to the job. Others started talking about insufficient power supply and variable voltage.

Can any of you recommend something that should fit the bill?

JustAnotherSaver

These fuse taps - are they not all the same? Do you get bad ones?

As per previous post, the kit i bought was dodgy. Sometimes it'd work, some times it wouldn't. I bought a new kit from Amazon. Probably around the day of my last post on this thread. Got round to installing it today after much fighting with the A pillar clips.

Anyway, i got the relevant fuse tap out of the new kit, went to insert the relevant fuses and they just wouldn't go at all. I was making sure i was lined up straight and it just wouldn't insert at all. The legs were just slightly not wide. In the end they started bending.

I had to use the old fuse tap but with the new kit/power supply.

What's that all about? I thought these things were a set size?

oh_really

JustAnotherSaver said:

These fuse taps - are they not all the same? Do you get bad ones?

What's that all about? I thought these things were a set size?

You do realise they come in different sizes; ATC, ATS, Micro2, Mini? ATS is 4.9mm Mini is 5.0mm

JustAnotherSaver

oh_really said:

JustAnotherSaver said:

These fuse taps - are they not all the same? Do you get bad ones?

What's that all about? I thought these things were a set size?

You do realise they come in different sizes; ATC, ATS, Micro2, Mini? ATS is 4.9mm Mini is 5.0mm

Nope, i don't realise. I don't have a clue at all about anything electrical but i sure get told to have a go and it's not that hard a lot, so since it's not that hard...i'm having a go. Though some were pretty clearly not going to fit.

I just pulled the taps out of the bag and measured them against what was already fitted. Only 1 of them seemed to match. https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07Q29JZZY/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o09_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 That's what i bought. The other taps were visually not going to fit.