Hi

Interested also and need front and back camera kit
Thanks
Mario

 

I have a Vantrue N2 Pro dual camera.
Over a year old and has been very good.

 

Just put in a Viofo A129 Duo in my truck. Very happy with the clean install using their three wire kit.

 

Hi
If people could put some pictures of your install it will be appreciate a lots
Thanks
Mario

 

After lots of research I bought a GARMIN 55 dash cam. Super happy with it after 1 year of ownership.

 

I just ordered my blackvue dr750s-1ch from blackboxmycar.com. free shipping and 3% off right now. jared was super helpful in pointing me to the right solution. there are a few options you want to consider, here is what I learned:

do you want 1 channel or 2 channel? 1 channel only faces forward, 2 channel is 2 cameras one facing forward and the other usually pointing back. I have a topper on my truck so I went with a 1 channel

built in gps: good if its a fleet truck, otherwise not sure it's really needed. one nice feature is it automatically changes the clock for timezones and daylight savings.

direct wire vs cigarette lighter: with direct wire you can use park mode, which will essentially put the camera to sleep unless it feels a bump, then it will record a little before, during, and after the event. my camera automatically will put it into a locked file. make sure the direct wire kit has a voltage sensor, this ensures the camera will not drain the battery if the vehicle is parked for a long time.

be sure to check out operating temperatures of the camera.

camera optics: there are 4k cameras out now but they use a lot more recording space. from what I read the Sony lenses are best for night recording.

be sure to choose the right size SD card for your recording needs. I upgraded to a 32gb card and was told it would record 10 hours of video at the quality I wanted. it is my daily driver so that is plenty of space before it re-records over itself.

another deciding factor on the blackvue to me was size. I plan on tucking it right to the passenger side of the rearview mirror out of site of the driver. the cords usually come out of the right side of the camera, which I did not want for a clean install. the camera can be flipped and the image reversed through the settings. this allows me to run the wires right next to the mount for the rearview mirror and across the headliner. the attached pic is from another member on here and how I plan on mounting it (same camera).

 

I have a Rexing V1 in my truck. Very easy to hardwire in (hid wire in pillar post) using this -

 

I too am very interested in a camera system. One of my concerns is how have they handled heat? if I leave my truck out in the sun and when it hits 90+ deg, we all know the interior will be 130+. How has any of them been affected by heat? Also, which has best night vision? Not getting washed out by oncoming headlights?

Thanks

 

The adhesive pads that come with the Rexing units suck...dont waste your time using them. I used the automotive double sided tape for body moldings and the unit is solid. Heat and sun don't bother it all. Night time recording will depend on lots of factors. There are some pretty good YouTube videos that show nighttime driving with the Rexing units. There are also several websites that do some side by side comparison reviews for different units.

 

I have a Thinkware F800 Pro. The install was much easier than I expected. The worst part was tapping into the fuse panel. Nobody in town had the taps. Micro and Standard they had, but not Mini. I ordered a set from Amazon but they needed modification and I was never completely happy with how they fit even after modifying them. Here's a link to the taps I bought:
This is the only dashcam I own so I have nothing to compare to. It works well. I turned off the power on announcement. I need to bump up the G-force threshold as it goes off at most bumps due to the stiff ride of an F-350. The kit I bought had everything I needed including the wires to hardwire power to the fuse panel. The only thing the kit didn't have was the fuse taps.

 

I am very happy with the Street Guardian SGGCX2PRO Dash Camera. I had to turn off the shock record feature as the truck set it off so often that it filled the card but bumps. But the video and pictures turn out very well. I had a Sony before this one and evening and night shots were very poor with the Sony. I wired it into an upfitter switch. I just have the one forward camera. I located it on the right side of the rear view mirror so it would not interfere with the cameras in the mirror. Been running it two years without any problems. The GPS is mounted to the glass also on the far left side and it works very well to track the location. The wires are tucked into the window and door trim down fuse box I installed fed by the upfitter switch.

Street Guardian dashcam

fuse block under dash of 2017 F450

 

Black Box G1w-CB is what I have, it's over a year old. It is not that good in the dark. You need to buy a micro SD card for it. I also bought a mount that attaches around the rear view mirror post, the suction cup mount it came with will not stick to the upper part of the windshield because of the black dots. Buy and hard wire kit also, it runs off of 5 volts, so do not just hard wire it without the kit. I have it to upfitter switch #1 which is only hot when the truck is running. Inexpensive camera.

 

I've used a few different cams over the years and have settled on the Viofo A119. It gets hot where I live, 117 degrees was the highest it got last year if my memory serves me right, and it gets even hotter in the parked truck. This Viofo has a capacitor, not a battery, so it is not destroyed by the heat. I have one facing forward and another facing the rear. Both cams were installed in the 2015 F250 in 2015 and were transferred to the F350 where they are still working fine today. Installation is easy. Just remember to install the fuse tap correctly with the dash cam feed wire on the load side of the fuse.

 

Loving my Blackvue DR590-2CH (2 cameral) system. Hardwired through a dedicated Blackvue battery pack so it also records in parking mode. The dedicated battery gets recharged only when the engine is running. I set the recording length to 1-minute clips because any car going down my street starts another video clip, and there's no need for a 3 or 5 minute clip for a 5-second event (saves space on the 64GB card allowing for more video clips). I have to remove the Micro-SD card from the camera to view videos on my PC. Mine is not connected to an optional GPS sensor, and the only real advantage I see of having it is the GPS sensor would keep the time-stamp current. Some of the higher level models require cloud storage along with those extra fees. Oh, and if anyone bumps the truck, the motion sensor starts video recording, and I get a voice prompt announcing such an event when I restart my engine.