Dedicated Dashcam Batteries vs. Portable USB Battery Packs 

I dont mean to be so offtopic but does any of you know of a method to get back into an instagram account? I was dumb forgot my account password. I appreciate any tips you can give me!

@Darwin Noah Instablaster :)

@Juelz Zander I really appreciate your reply. I got to the site thru google and I'm waiting for the hacking stuff atm. Looks like it's gonna take a while so I will reply here later with my results.

@Juelz Zander It did the trick and I now got access to my account again. Im so happy! Thanks so much you saved my account !

@Darwin Noah You are welcome :)

How could you do this?

@@pattilb1211 Did you ever learn the secret?

Ah nice! What are your thoughts on how they compare?

Vortex Radar First of all, thanks for the vids you make, they're very helpful. Kudos and cheers! They're both pretty good and noticed that they're actually made by the same company Egen. I noticed that since B-124 was starting to sell, didn't see much of the Neo in the market. Charging wise they're great and for the longest time, I had the Neo connected through the self connect (Cig Lghtr socket) but I found a video on my particular car and finally hardwired it, what a difference. I like how the expansion packs are sold too and compatible with the B124 but they're just as expensive as the main battery pack, lol. I couldn't get it now but maybe in future as I start getting more devices connected. Thanks again for your stuff.

This is true especially of the name brand, like Anker, batteries. With the no name brand of the week Chinese designed junk that Amazon pushes however all bets are off. It also depends on how much power you need to pull from the pack and your charging source. If you’re pulling 2 amps and charging at 2.4 amps the battery will receive little if any charge due to efficiency losses. Dash cam specs often specify 2 amps at 5 volts but typically draw more like 0.3 to 1 amp when recording. In reality unless you’re going to park your car somewhere risky for days at a time the 1.5 to 5 watts of power won’t drain your vehicles battery that much. 10 hours at work would be 50 watt hours worst case. A car battery can deliver over 500 watt hours and still start the car. So you’re only using 10% of your car battery’s effective accessory capacity. And those numbers are all conservative. A dash cam could do say 10 fps in parking mode to reduce power consumption until it detects an incident. You can buy security cameras now that run 24x7 for up to a year on small internal batteries. They do so by only recording when they detect something worth recording.

Really? Have you every checked the temperature inside your car when it is parked facing the sun and the windows are up?

@@rrrogster Whoooosh.

Ben Matheson 🤣

Did it work for you mate?? I'm in Australia 🇦🇺 which puts me in the s#%t lol

Great to hear!

2 yrs ago but there is always the heat caused fire danger of Lithium

Halo Bolt 58830 ultimate Power Source I am going to give a try. I have to see if this works

Do you have some links to some that you’ve used that would do the job? How quickly do they take to recharge?

@@VortexRadar I have a cheap Blackweb brand USB bank i bought at Walmart that can power the ports while charging. Surely there are other power banks that can do the same.

What is all the centigrade crap? 60°C = what.

@@stephenpowstinger733google is your friend... 60º Celcius = 140º Fahrenheit

That’s true. Yeah there are some that do that, laptop chargers are a good example, and I forgot to mention that as an example. Thanks’

Stavros Kontzias, thinking on using something similar. The heat issue I think is overrated. Ii-Ion batteries today are reasonably safe and can withstand 80/90° C (not sure however if they will keep working in such extreme temperatures or will shutdown to cool off after hitting 70°C). I am even considering placing the power bank/jump starter inside a lipo safebag just to give an additional level of security.

what power bank do you use for this? Does the power bank not turn off when dash cam is fully charge?

I have no plans to test it. They asked me to when it first came out, but it doesn't look like it has anything super appealing and I wanna test out cameras that have something unique that we haven't seen before. It's really similar to the F800 Pro and DR750S type cameras. Maybe once I finish everything else that's a higher priority then I could take a look at it, but I have no plans to at this point.

Yee, there is a reason , and is the same reason why you haven’t got any answer until now: it-s because it FUkCing cheap to DIY . They are paid by companies to promote their shits and that whould be contraproductive to advise you how to save money. Instead, they advise you how to SPEnD money!!! Keep this in mind!

No

The DR900X has a number of improvements over the DR900S discussed here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Y53-_3IXD8g.html I suppose you could technically use just about any dashcam with a battery, provided you use the proper cabling. Different dashcams have different types of parking mode recording though which is way beyond the scope of this video.

Great timing! That used to be the Cellink Neo, but now it’s the BI-750. It has both larger capacity and faster recharging. It’s also on sale for Black Friday right now. :) geni.us/BBMC-BI750 You can also consider the expansion for even longer recording. geni.us/BBMC-BE750

Oh man, I'm so sorry to hear that! Yeah you could always get a Power Magic Pro which lets the camera run off of your car battery too and it's way cheaper than the B-124 so that's an option too. I used one for a while, but it's put a heavy toll on my car battery so I don't get much run time off of it anymore. bit.ly/2J5zRzq

Nope. It doesn’t work that way and you wouldn’t want to have the ultra battery (which tries to take a lot of power in) trying to charge itself from your car battery while parked which is what it’ll do.

@@VortexRadar I was trying to figure out what to do with the power Magic Pro which came in a bundle with the cameras, and I also have the power magic Ultra battery which I will used primarily for the hardwire.

Yeah I just posted a pair of videos on it channel with a bunch of updated information. Have a great trip!