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Hi. I have just bought an in car camera that slots over rear view mirror. Quite impressed but a tad bigger than the original one. It comes with a car. Harder for power which I want to change to maybe hard wire in somewhere. Mainly because I have the two 12v sockets which have power Constantly to them and I want it to be easier to just start recording when I turn the car on.

So has anyone got any ideas maybe some easily accessed wires that are in front of car somewhere I can splice to or how to convert the power sockets maybe

Any help appreciated

Lee

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    What i did was used a twin fuse holder and found an ignition live in the fuse box , i then wired in a 12v aux socket and used a USB adaper , which i placed in the glove box , so when i turn ignition on the camera gets power.

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    Thanks. Any Idea where might be best to get a twin fuse. Tried halfrauds for a piggy back fuse but 'surprisingly' didn't know what I was on about. Have got day off today so might try a few car part shops and hope they have one. Which fuse did you to piggy back to?

    Lee

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    Lee I'm wanting to do the same thing. I live just down from you. Are you off tomorrow?

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    I've just been to bullseye at firth park. And they suggested going to source sounds at chappletown to get a fuse splitter. Which would do what we want.

    I'm gonna wire my dash cam into a switch which I'm going to place next to the front and rear windscreen heater controls. As my dash cam has a parking mode which won't work if the power from the ignition is turned off and power to the cam is lost.

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