Hey all,
I had a search around and couldn't come up with anything that seemed to fit the bill so hoping someone out there has overcome this same issue. 2019 W177 A-Class, and I've had a Blackvue DR900X fitted by Halfords (possibly my first error). It works fine when the car is operational, but I bought it for parking mode because the street I have to park on is tiny and people who don't know how to drive vans for some reason insist on driving them down the street all the time, leading, eventually, to a serious hit-and-run of my front bumper.
The issue I have is the camera switches off after 50 minutes of the car being parked; no "low battery" warning, it just shuts down. And it's the exact same idle time every time: almost exactly 50 minutes. I guessed it was plugged into a fuse that doesn't always provide power, and when I took it back in to a different branch, the guy there wired it into another fuse (he even said the first fuse it was wired to was definitely wrong). But it's happening still, and I'm about ready to just have them rip the whole thing out while I'm still in my return window...
Is it possible that this particular car doesn't provide any fuses that provide always-on power? Or if there are particular fuses that do, does anyone know which they are, and also whether I might be tempting fate to just try replugging it myself? And failing all that, does anyone know of a service somewhere in north London that might actually know what they're doing here that I could pay to fix it?
I am pulling my hair out with this, and the dude suggested that it's possible Mercedes has some kind of deep sleep thing where it's not going to be possible for me to run this camera on parking mode without its own dedicated battery. At the very least, I'd love to know if this is true or not, so I can make the decision to return it.
I had a search around and couldn't come up with anything that seemed to fit the bill so hoping someone out there has overcome this same issue. 2019 W177 A-Class, and I've had a Blackvue DR900X fitted by Halfords (possibly my first error). It works fine when the car is operational, but I bought it for parking mode because the street I have to park on is tiny and people who don't know how to drive vans for some reason insist on driving them down the street all the time, leading, eventually, to a serious hit-and-run of my front bumper.
The issue I have is the camera switches off after 50 minutes of the car being parked; no "low battery" warning, it just shuts down. And it's the exact same idle time every time: almost exactly 50 minutes. I guessed it was plugged into a fuse that doesn't always provide power, and when I took it back in to a different branch, the guy there wired it into another fuse (he even said the first fuse it was wired to was definitely wrong). But it's happening still, and I'm about ready to just have them rip the whole thing out while I'm still in my return window...
Is it possible that this particular car doesn't provide any fuses that provide always-on power? Or if there are particular fuses that do, does anyone know which they are, and also whether I might be tempting fate to just try replugging it myself? And failing all that, does anyone know of a service somewhere in north London that might actually know what they're doing here that I could pay to fix it?
I am pulling my hair out with this, and the dude suggested that it's possible Mercedes has some kind of deep sleep thing where it's not going to be possible for me to run this camera on parking mode without its own dedicated battery. At the very least, I'd love to know if this is true or not, so I can make the decision to return it.
