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Originally Posted by hyde
I have to check that brand. I heard of thinkware but never heard of that.
Has anyone managed to get external USB battery powered parking mode? Basically I thought about keeping a battery charging bank plugged into USB, and that bank will keep powering the dash cam. If the car stops, dash cam can keep getting power from battery bank, if it needs to record in parking mode. Since parking mode only needs a little draw for detection, I thought something like 15000mAh batter should last every night, when car starts next day again it can charge battery and cycle continues. Is this possible?
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I timed a new 12000mAh USB battery pack on a Nextbase 4k and it lasted around 6 hours recording. Depending on the dashcam the video is also constantly captured in parking mode, just not recorded until triggered, hence why some are able to record video before the actual trigger event.
Personally, I’d look into a battery solution designed for this purpose, as there are a number of modular options.
I found dashcams consume more power than I thought and this can impact the car battery, even with a voltage cut off in parking mode.
Here’s the BMW Advanced Car Eye 3.0, and there are threads on here covering this -
https://www.group1auto.co.uk/bmw/acc...ced-car-eye-30