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02-01-2016, 01:07 PM | #45 |
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I use the blackvue DR650GW-2ch. It is amazing and great coverage seen as it records both the back and front.
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02-01-2016, 01:50 PM | #46 |
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I'm with admiral. The excess brings the premium right down. In the next year or 2 I'll be dropping the premium as my no claims rises back up.
Hopefully I never have to be concerned with the excess, exactly as I wasn't before. It's a gamble but long term seems worth it. I run mobius dash cams front and rear and I've now taken to keeping a usb charger in my glove box so that I can keep one cam running when I leave the car anywhere different.
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02-01-2016, 02:05 PM | #47 | |
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Nextbase is more like it. Looks almost identical for my blueskysea I had. Although, 2 channel is the way to go! Where do you fit the rear one? |
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02-01-2016, 02:12 PM | #48 |
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I have a cigarette lighter in my centre console/armrest so plan on using a dual usb-cigarette lighter charger to support the front and rear cameras. Just need to find a couple of long cables and a discreet way to run one through to the rear cam.
Will probably mount the rear one in the corner of the window |
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02-01-2016, 02:56 PM | #49 | |
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Overall, it works really well. |
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02-01-2016, 03:33 PM | #50 |
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I used the cigarette lighter power supply but soldered my own wires inside it so there was no visible wires or adapter.
Next time I'll probably connect direct to the accessory fuse box. I'm really tempted by the convenience of the dual modules. 90$ is my budget. Rear quality suffers but rear is less important. Important is discretion and motion-detect buffer features: https://dashcamtalk.com/blacksys-cf-100/ |
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02-01-2016, 03:36 PM | #51 | |
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02-02-2016, 12:11 PM | #53 |
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I think cars should start coming with cams as an optional extra. It took a while for manufacturers to make the USB port standard. Well that was a move to annihilate the after market head units in part and keep customers locked into their own head units and audio systems.
Anyhow my rant is lane drifters. This morning on the A406 a guy started to drift into my lane. I flashed him once very briefly. At the lights he rolls down his window: "oi why you driving up my ass and flashing me u fking pussy." I ignored him but I wish had a cam in case I had not seen him drifting and ignoring his shoulder check. I kept calm. It was the guys behind me who drove up his bum because he was doing 30 on a 50 stretch in his brand new focus std |
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02-02-2016, 02:31 PM | #57 | |
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Please...someone explain this to me?! Luckily the windows on the E92 slide down if you hold the unlock button so I could get in easily but i'm 100% sure he/she will have hit my car. |
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02-03-2016, 12:58 AM | #59 | |
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As an aside, have you got "naughty" plates, your camera flash producing that flare from the front plate would suggest it, certainly cannot read your plate, and it doesn't look like a typical "photoshop" number removal Last edited by MERLIN335i; 02-03-2016 at 03:23 AM.. |
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02-03-2016, 01:37 AM | #60 |
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lmao I'm tempted to do that next time.
MERLIN335i I hope it's not a naughty plate haha! Only had the car a few months so no idea where the plate came from. Now that you mention it, it's quite different to the car next to it eh! Hopefully it's just a lucky camera angle |
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02-03-2016, 04:41 AM | #61 | |
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02-03-2016, 04:44 AM | #62 |
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I'm still waiting to capture something interesting. Does help to remember the numbers of unmarked cars you see going past with their lights on though
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02-10-2016, 06:07 AM | #63 |
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My career is taking another nice backwards step/frustrating turn.
I've been turned down for a role I applied for within my own company. I have 6 yrs experience and used to do the job which became vacant again. A useless person was fired. Someone I said was useless from the start. I've also not had a pay rise in 2 years since one particular person decided they didn't like me. There's a clique of people who run things here and i'm not popular with them, despite showing I have great ability. None of my good work get's noticed by people further up the chain. I've been black balled. I'm looking at a graduate diploma in law as one option to becoming a solicitor. Is anyone on here a solicitor? How would they rate the stress levels of the job and the typical salaries that are available. The other option is to go contracting as a tester. £400 a day looks possible. I'd plan to work 6mths a year in salary calcs. To be realistic of annul take home pay. I'm absolutely disgusted right now.
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02-10-2016, 06:24 AM | #64 |
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I feel for you
I hate office drama. Blame poor management for letting this sort of thing happen. By incompetence, or just because they like it this way - since they bathe in injustice every day. But usually it's just lazy, incompetent management. |
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02-10-2016, 08:30 AM | #65 | |
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Regarding contract software testing, this is what I do currently and from what I've seen £400 /day is do-able but does depend on your skill set for that rate. What skills do you have? Coding? Automation frameworks? Agile? Continuous integration? etc.. If yes to the above then that rate is certainly within reach, however if mainly manual testing experience I would aim slightly lower. Cheers, Craig
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02-10-2016, 09:01 AM | #66 |
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AWSAWS - You need to leave! Stop falling for the company bullshit. They couldn't give a crap if you were found in a ditch tomorrow (excuse my brashness). Unless you have some real love for the company or it makes some revolutionary technology and you see yourself climbing to the top, just get out. It's not worth working places where there is a thick layer of cosy management, just keeping themselves in a job merely by turning up and not ever allowing anyone else a chance.
Several friends from my old employer are in the same situation as you, as was I until I left. Lots of hot air promises and kept on low wages, despite being very capable engineers. They have stagnant wages while the CEO, who did just resign with immediate effect on Monday gave himself 5% rises every year. They guy was earning more than the 20x larger competitor's CEO despite the company not even turning a profit. . Top level management was just a joke. No one making a difficult decision, constant buck passing. In that case, seems the new chairman is finally sorting things as of this week, but after 4-5 years of wrong decisions, how long before that company turns around? I could have waited it out, but what for? What am I gaining from that? You've got 6 years under your belt. It's time to leave. People start to ask questions when your CV says 1 job over 10 years. Try another company, you'll learn a lot more from new people than you will butting heads with the same old faces. I start a new job at the end of the month, and I already have a plan of what job I want after that and what skills I need to acquire in this role to achieve that goal. |
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