Hi,

Just moved cars from a 2006 Focus to a 2013 S-Max and transferred my Nextbase dashcam into the new car.  It is hardwired and I have ran the cabling round the trim into the central fuse box (passenger footwell).  Using the include 'piggyback' fuse adaptor I put it into fuse F20 (electronic feed, electronic fuse, Auto-dimming mirror, land departure warning) and initially it seemed to be working fine.

The issue I am having is with the Stop/Start feature.  When the car auto-stops the dashcam continues to work and is continually supplied power, when the car starts again (on pressing the clutch) the dashcam turns off and on again like power has been cut.

I wanted to have the dashcam on a fuse that was ignition controlled and not permanent live, I don't know if a different fuse would give different results or which fuse to try.  Initially I tried fuses F9 & F10 (front and rear windscreen washers) but I got no power to the dashcam from either of those.

 

Thanks.

I usually find fuses for heated things works well.

Like heated seats, heated screens, etc.

It's either that or your battery is low and as the car turns over it pulls the voltage down more than your camera and/or power adapter can handle.

was going to say try fuse 13 or 14. depends on what fusebox you have, think yours should be a later fuse box, do you have 2 rows of fuses or 3?

 

right, ignore my last post , found the one you need, took a bit of working out, as aftermarket front parking sensors take a ign live from the fusebox, found the photo of which one to use, looks like fuse 19 7.5 amp. S Max_2011-Present.pdf

Thanks for your reply, I agree it looks like it is pointing to fuse 19 (there appears to be no fuse in 20 in the picture).  Fuse 19 is listed in the book as ABS, yaw rate sensor (ESP), electric parking brake (EPB), accelerator pedal supply.  Will give it a go but it's raining at the moment....