Dash Cams
Tuned
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The 'impact sensor' tells the dash cam that an event has occurred. If it has the option, it will record the event.
Excerpt from another website:
Parking Mode / Buffered Parking Mode
If someone damages your car in your absence, a dash cam with parking mode will come to life and start recording, so you can see who hit your car. Note that dash cams do take some time to wake up, so unless your device has buffered parking mode, it might already be too late to see what happened by the time your camera starts recording.
In buffered parking mode, the dash cam records continuously while you are parked, but footage will not be saved to the memory card unless an event is detected (either by the G-sensor or by visual motion detection). Typically, footage from 4-10 seconds before until 20-60 seconds after the event will be saved.
Excerpt from another website:
Parking Mode / Buffered Parking Mode
If someone damages your car in your absence, a dash cam with parking mode will come to life and start recording, so you can see who hit your car. Note that dash cams do take some time to wake up, so unless your device has buffered parking mode, it might already be too late to see what happened by the time your camera starts recording.
In buffered parking mode, the dash cam records continuously while you are parked, but footage will not be saved to the memory card unless an event is detected (either by the G-sensor or by visual motion detection). Typically, footage from 4-10 seconds before until 20-60 seconds after the event will be saved.
So that's why you may want to wire it to a "always on" upfitter switch.
You are a wise King.
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