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[78bex]

dash cam onboard 
Just a word of caution with these things
I had a similar model to this with a slightly different arrangement of the IR led`s
Got it delivered in the morning & stuck in the inside of my windscreen & set off up the M3.
About 40 mins into my trip, I started to get a hot plastic burning sort of smell.
The smell just got steadily worse, so I started gropping around thinking it was the blower motor. My hand finally made contact with the power plug in the ciggy socket & it was hotter then hell. I yanked the think out via the red hot cable & made for the hard shoulder. Long story short the whole lot got the end of my boot into a ditch. Any new camera`s I buy now, get a few hours testing out of the car first .

Oh dear , thats a bit worrying  Will have to see if Omegaman has had the same issues 

Aye That is worrying , was it from ebay, amazon or somewhere elae  , I'll update tomorrow evening how it performs and problems etc. on long journeys   

it was from a chinese seller direct I had purchased from previously.
It`s @ times like that a large hammer would come in handy. anyway I remembered to take out the memory card & it had stopped recording after 12 minutes. Just a rogue unit I suppose. The russian drivers seem to favour the later model Mio mivue camera. £120 ish. 

[Mr.OmegaMan]

Well i've just got back from a run of 150 odd miles and i'm not very impressed with the camera.. After some 30 miles into the drive i stopped for petrol and i only realised when i got back it stopped recording then     Memory card had recorded 1.6GB so card wasn't full 

Never mind I'll try again next time, Got some nice pictures from today though (not with this camera) from Bala area 

[steve6367]

Have you had chance to try it at night?

[omega3000]

Well i've just got back from a run of 150 odd miles and i'm not very impressed with the camera.. After some 30 miles into the drive i stopped for petrol and i only realised when i got back it stopped recording then     Memory card had recorded 1.6GB so card wasn't full 

Never mind I'll try again next time, Got some nice pictures from today though (not with this camera) from Bala area 

Did it overheat 

[Mr.OmegaMan]

Well i've just got back from a run of 150 odd miles and i'm not very impressed with the camera.. After some 30 miles into the drive i stopped for petrol and i only realised when i got back it stopped recording then     Memory card had recorded 1.6GB so card wasn't full 

Never mind I'll try again next time, Got some nice pictures from today though (not with this camera) from Bala area 

Did it overheat 

No burning smell and i felt the cigarette connector now and again stayed pretty cool.

[Mr.OmegaMan]

Have you had chance to try it at night?

Unfortunattely not mate by the time its dark i don't have to go anywhere will probably have to wait till winter before i can test the night vision if it hasn't blown up by then 

[omega3000]

Well i've just got back from a run of 150 odd miles and i'm not very impressed with the camera.. After some 30 miles into the drive i stopped for petrol and i only realised when i got back it stopped recording then     Memory card had recorded 1.6GB so card wasn't full 

Never mind I'll try again next time, Got some nice pictures from today though (not with this camera) from Bala area 

Did it overheat 

No burning smell and i felt the cigarette connector now and again stayed pretty cool.

Thats good news then 

[Mr.OmegaMan]

Well i've just got back from a run of 150 odd miles and i'm not very impressed with the camera.. After some 30 miles into the drive i stopped for petrol and i only realised when i got back it stopped recording then     Memory card had recorded 1.6GB so card wasn't full 

Never mind I'll try again next time, Got some nice pictures from today though (not with this camera) from Bala area 

http://www.omegaowners.com/forum/index.php?topic=114643.msg1470822#msg1470822

 

[Sir Tigger KC]

Have you had chance to try it at night?

He's too busy sitting under his fan at night!! 

[Mr.OmegaMan]

Have you had chance to try it at night?

He's too busy sitting under his fan at night!! 

Too bloody right 

When I got out the car near Bala the heat hit me like a ton of bricks getting out and by the time I got back to the car the interior was hotter than the outside and after over a mile walk in this heat with flys trying to suck my blood  I was more than relieved to turn the cool air conditioning to cool me down  Oh and when I got home the engine bay was very sweaty around the AirCon pipes 

[Sir Tigger KC]

With some old vacuum hoses and a bit of A Team ingenuity, you could pipe the cold air from your car into your bedroom!   

Might be worth thinking about LPGing the car though if you're going to leave it running all night!!     

[Mr.OmegaMan]

Great the camera doesn't work at all now looks like the heat has got to it or its just decided not to work who knows  Looks like its going back for a refund not a replacement

[MR MISTER]

Great the camera doesn't work at all now looks like the heat has got to it or its just decided not to work who knows  Looks like its going back for a refund not a replacement

FFS....it was £13   

[Rog]

Great the camera doesn't work at all now looks like the heat has got to it or its just decided not to work who knows  Looks like its going back for a refund not a replacement

Did you ever get to the bottom of this ? I've just ordered one . . . . and then saw the above 

[Mr.OmegaMan]

Great the camera doesn't work at all now looks like the heat has got to it or its just decided not to work who knows  Looks like its going back for a refund not a replacement

Did you ever get to the bottom of this ? I've just ordered one . . . . and then saw the above 

Sent it back for a refund, just wouldn't turn on, Probably a faulty unit was going to get another but at the time out of stock, If you bought from Amazon Rog if anything goes wrong with it you got 30 days to open a returns request for a refund or replacent.