@flood May I ask which ones you use? I want to get one but need some kind of baseline and positive experience. I don’t know any of the names people are saying, and I don’t want to blow $300-$500 on a POS
Dash Cams
Discussion in 'Trucking Electronics, Gadgets and Software Forum' started by 74Chris, Jul 2, 2018.
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mine are older Cobra CDR830's
most are about the same just make sure it has GPS. better than 720 video, internal battery, G-shock,Last edited: Jul 5, 2018
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mine was beneficial to me on one occasion so far, a few winters ago a farmer was burning brush piles along a secondary highway. the conditions were just right (or wrong?) that the smoke was hanging in the air over the highway cutting visibility to less than 30 feet.
I saw a pair of tail lights in front of me suddenly turn to flashing hazard lights as it approached the smoke and I slowed right down trying to keep them in view. they were crawling along at about 1mph, the only way I could stay in my lane was by rolling down my window and looking at the yellow line beside my steps. and then the inevitable BANG...a dude in a Dodge pickup slammed into my beavertails. I had a log skidder on at the time, overdimensional with 4 ways and strobes all lit up, buddy tried to say I was stopped on the highway.
dashcam showed I had never stopped moving until after he hit me, and that I was restricted to the speed of the vehicle in front of me. I was found not at fault, but the incident went on my carrier profile anyways. because Canada.
footage is from my previous dashcam, a $100 ebay model that claimed to be 720p. make sure you get a minimum 1080HD cam, the low light footage is much better. first video is approaching and going into the smoke, second is when i was struck from behind. can't tell anything hit me from the footage....gotta take my word for it lol.
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I run a WheelWitness HD Pro... It has GPS, g sensor, motion sensor, records soumd if you want it to, can be turned 90 degrees so you can record interaction with LEO's at your door, and has a super wide angle 170 degree lens, and has multiple video quality and resolution option clear up to 2K HD.... I paid like $129.00 for it and like $30 for the sd card reader. It says it will only support up to a 64 GB micro sd card, but mine works great with a 128 GB micro sd... It doesn't have Wi-Fi but you can buy an sd card reader that will plug into you phone... That's what I use. I also had to download a free video player app as the one that was on the phone stock didn't recognize the video format
https://www.amazon.com/WheelWitness-PRO-Dash-Cam-GPS/dp/B00OTZWJE2
https://www.amazon.com/ITD-ITANDA-A...s=lanbo+micro+sd+card+reader+type+c+usb&psc=1
Edit : add links for the dash cam and a sd card reader for a phone with type c usb port (other style plugs are available to)Last edited: Jul 6, 2018
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I'm looking to get one soon, too. This is what I'm looking at:
https://www.amazon.com/KDLINKS-X1-D...om-20&linkId=1863e4e118ac59b745084342de5d6419
Seems pricey compared to a lot of them but opinions are welcome. I'd rather spend a few extra bucks and get a good one. Don't want to throw money away either.
I've never had one, so I'm a little confused how it works... if you have an incident or whatever, how do you retrieve the vid?
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You may have to download a video viewer if the ones on your computer or smart phone doesn't recognize the format of the video file... But there are several free video viewer apps out there.
I would highly recommend a dash cam with 2K HD resolution... Anything lower and it can be difficult to read licence plate numbers of passing cars.chacha and Texas Rebel Thank this. -
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