Hardwiring a VIOFO dashcam

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Nickedney
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Has anyone experience of fitting a VIOFO dashcam with the hardwire kit in their Puma?
I just cannot get mine to work, even though I've fitted fuse taps directly to the in cabin fuse box, as per the numerous videos on You Tube.
The camera works fine with the 'cigar lighter' lead but not the fuse taps.
If anyone has the technical knowledge, I have photos of the connections I made.

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I've had experience of fitting two VIOFO A118C dashcams in my previous cars.

Both kept rebooting randomly off the hardwire. Powering them via the 12v socket and not an issue. In the end I got rid and bought a 70mai dashcam Pro for the Puma. Not had a problem since.
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Thanks for that , have you hardwired the 70mai into the Puma?
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Yeah. Took me couple of hours coz I got OCD. Has to be perfect ;)
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OK, nice one. I presume you used taps from the fuse box inside the car? Does yours have one positive lead for 'accessories' and another for 'permanent live/battery' ? The VIOFO has this and there's also a voltage limiter gadget in the cable to save the battery when using the parking mode. I've tried fuse no. 2 for the accessories and fuse no. 4 for the permanent live, which have you used?
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Fuse box in passenger footwell, (Fuse 2).

I used the following with a Nextbase fuse tap and didn't bother with the Parking Mode.

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Cheers for your support !
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Eureka! have re-connected everything with a different earth and it works! Such a relief.
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Using this Earth?

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Yes that's the earth I'm using.
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