I'm awake now....

[Oscarvan]

First trip with the new dash cam......

[omahagirl]

We bought our 1st dash camera will have it running the next time we take out Buffy

[raidernation]

Do you have it "placed" on the dash, or is it attached to the windshield somehow ?

I am looking at the Garmin, and they are all attached with a mounting ball that attaches to the window above the camera.

I guess they designed the attachment mechanism for cars, so I am not sure how I would mount the camera in my Berk.

Thanks

[Oscarvan]

I have the APEMAN C420..... Cheap, good video. Incomplete manual, somewhat unintuitive and very little info on web....

(The other black box is a GPS receiver that blue tooths to an ipad.)

[Oscarvan]

So in the original post the video showed "processing" for 12 hours.... Can't edit the post.... I think it may be too large.... Here's some stills.... The whole sequence is about 3 seconds.... Much more dramatic in the video....

[raidernation]

The garmin would easily mount in the same way as you have set up.

Thanks

[Oscarvan]

The Berk's off roading capabilities are quite good. Oh, had a 5000# tandem axle trailer behind me.

[JohnD10]

Originally Posted by Oscarvan

So in the original post the video showed "processing" for 12 hours.... Can't edit the post.... I think it may be too large.... Here's some stills.... The whole sequence is about 3 seconds.... Much more dramatic in the video....

Try down-rezing (lowering the video's resolution)...that should make it work.

If you are shooting the video at hi-def or even 4K, that is probably overkill for what you need the dash cam for.

Plus, that will eat up a bunch of memory card space.

[Oscarvan]

OK, let' try this again.....

[Oscarvan]

Video processing..... It's 7.2 meg... so small enough. Fed up wit this quirky forum....

[ronheater70]

Originally Posted by Oscarvan

I have the APEMAN C420..... Cheap, good video. Incomplete manual, somewhat unintuitive and very little info on web....

(The other black box is a GPS receiver that blue tooths to an ipad.)

Why diod you mount it on the wiper, bet it gets confusing to watch with the wipers on!

[Oscarvan]

I had to bring it up as it won't angle down far enough due the flat windscreen, but I don't want it in the middle of the thing either. Up top there's the sun tinting....Ironically there's really no good place to put it.

[Oscarvan]

So, I've moved it left a little. No matter where you put it, the wiper is going to be in view when it's on.....

[Eagle5]

I bet that guy got a mouth full of train horn (or I’m hoping)

[Oscarvan]

I hope he got a seat full !!!!

[Oscarvan]

OK, got video up on youtube....

https://youtu.be/p304mugvmTY

[Dijoeboss]

I wouldn’t have let up on that horn at all until after I made that pass!! I will now also be purchasing a drive cam!!

[BarabooBob]

After a very close call in Pennsylvania last year, I got a dash camera and installed it in TV. If the truck is running, the camera is on.
I am pretty sure that the close call was an attempt at insurance fraud. The other driver changed lanes right in front of me and slammed on the brakes. He had no working brake lights, and the car looked like it was the loser in a demolition derby. There were 4 occupants and one of the back seat passengers was watching me almost hit them.
Luckily, they were so close to me when they changed lanes that I hit the brakes HARD before they hit theirs. I could not see most of their car over the hood of my F150 when I came to a stop, just the roof. They did a fast u-turn and took off, almost getting hit by an oncoming car.
I am also getting a another dash cam to put in the back window of my TT just in case.

[Dijoeboss]

My new dash cam with 128Gb card, 4K edition, hopefully I never need the video footage!

[Oscarvan]

I have read a LOT of stories since I first posted this...... In all of them the cam helped. I have not read one story where it was a detriment.