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This is an old revision of Dashcams made by ZorrUno on 2020-12-01 05:39:49.
Dashcams
Junsun
Have recently bought these as a dual camera setup, front and rear (2x 1080p for front/rear)https://go.fox.nz/dashcam
Summary
- Not bad overall for the price (Around NZ$160 shipped at the time)- you can get just the front cam and record in 4k (Around $120), and getting the non-GPS models are slightly cheaper (I'd highly recommend the GPS and rear camera though)
- Quality is fine. Window reflections are a bit annoying, but some sort of shroud would probably solve this. Wide visibility with playback is great.
- A big microSD Card is useful (a 128GB card is working fine on one of mine). Keep a spare SD card in the car in case you want to swap them out in a hurry.
- One of mine failed after a few months, (I've purchased 5 sets now), but is still useable and installed... it is just that the display isn't working.
- I've already used it once to send to my insurance company for evidence of an incident!
Functions
- If you push a button (twice if screen is off) it will lock the most recent recording which is nice, ie won't record over it. I do this often.- the car/lane avoidance stuff is useless to me as it doesn't sound an alarm (visual only.... screen is tiny).
- I haven't really tested the GPS stuff, it embeds the location in metadata and you can review via their windows app (I think this is a standard, so other apps will read it). GPS is most useful for the fact that you don't need to set time/date - it is done automatically,
- You can save recording space by turning on timelapse. It records at a lower frame rate. I use this in one car that has a smaller SD card installed.
- there is movement sensing (i.e. record on movement). I turn this on, but most of the time something is moving in at least one of the cameras. Maybe it is useful if the car is in a garage or something.
- It is supposed to automatically lock a file recording after an incident (hi G forces...) I haven't checked this. The one incident I knew I needed it, I pressed the button to lock the file anyway.
Powering It Previous to that I was using a Mobius camera - I have recommended these in the past: https://www.mobius-actioncam.com/ and still use one in one of my cars (now with a Junsun as well).
These are great quality, have a decent configuration app (windows) and huge following.
They come with a tripod mount, so I purchased this adhesive mount to mount it in a car for $3
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Gopro-Accessories-1-4-Tripod-Mount-Adapter-Long-Screw-J-Hook-Buckle-Flat-Adhesive-Sticky-Mount/32362532310.html
My review a few years ago: https://zorruno.com/2014/dashcams-and-the-80-dollar-mobius/
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CategoryVehicles
CategoryCCTV