Dashcams in 2024

What about those springy 'kerb crawlers' that hung down and ran along the kerbstones to make weird noises?

I am aware of that.

I am aware of that. It provides a small backup function in case power is lost.

The problem is that it ceases to work after a while, not because it has not been charged, but because the battery deteriorates. And then it starts complaining.

I have the camera continuously powered and the battery still fails after a while.

Is it dash temperature doing this ? Or is the charging circuit badly designed (trickle charging a battery type that does not accept trickle) ?

It's pretty bad when the failures are so consistent.

Even a Supercap, likely has upper temperature limits.

Paul

The battery in my first nextbase lasted around 4 years. This with the dashcam left permanently in the car and where the temperature was high when the car was parked in the sun for long periods

My current nextbase is still going after 18 months. I have my nexbase wired to the power takeoff in my car which turns off around 12 minutes after the ignition is turned off. I leave the dashcam in the car in its holder 24/365. It's configured for auto power off so when the car ignition is turned off 12 minutes later the power is removed from the dashcam and around 45 seconds later the dashcanm turns off. When I next open the car's door the auxillary power is restored and the dashcam turns on and the battery recharges.

I don't use parking mode which may require the dashcam to have power permanently on, albeit the dashcam will be in a standby mode and only fully switching on to record when physical movement of the vehicle is detected.

I thought kerb crawlers were quite a different thing altogether.

Kerb feelers were so you could park the right distance from the kerb. At one time, the police used to ticket vehicles too far out from the kerb. Even the Drivers Test, when the tester makes you parallel park, the tester used to hop out of the vehicle and measure the wheel-to-kerb distance. Too far, you fail. Kerb feelers were after market, and I'm told if an inexperienced driver hits them just the right way, you can ruin the mount point used.

People no longer worry about mere kerbs. They buy vehicles which can easily mount the kerb. I watched a middle age lady take a Jeep Wrangler and drive right up over kerb and sidewalk, just because she was too weak and lazy to turn the wheel and make a turn like a normal human. Says a lot for modern kerb dimensions. Maybe if a kerb was two feet high, they'd have to resort to "low gear" to get over them.

This is why vehicles in the States need 36" tyres -- those damn kerbs.

Paul

Yes, but I think 'crawlers' has more effect!

Chain or plastic strip with a silver zigzag that doesn't quite reach the road to discharge static electricity.

Either to prevent travel sickness or stop you from getting a small electric shock when you exit the car and touch the door handle (which was generated in your body when you slid across the seat).

I found the physical life of battery in my Nextbase 622 was short at about

GH

And a load of Green Shield stamps falling out from the glove compartment which by the mid seventies had to be those larger multiple value ones .

GH