The Blackvue Power Magic Pro is a very specific device: it is designed for you to hard-wire a Blackvue vehicle camera into your car's fuse box without draining your car's battery. This is a great add-on because it means your Blackvue can continue recording while your car is off--if you're worried about people messing with your car when you're away from it, hard-wiring it to the battery keeps it on.
The way the unit works is fairly simple: one set of wires branches to a tube that resembles a lighter socket: you plug the Blackvue into this. The other end both grounds to bare metal and connects to the fuse box. In the middle, we have the black box you see pictured here: it is an on/off switch, a red power LED, and six dip switches to control the configuration. The first two dip switches allow you to specify, when the battery reaches a certain voltage, the Blackvue should be shut off to prevent draining the battery to the point where you can't start your car. The next four dip switches allow you to set how long the camera should be kept awake when you turn off the car, and it ranges from 6 hours to "infinite".
The Blackvue Power Magic Pro comes in a small box with a small instruction booklet that's fairly easy to understand. I really like the fact that they also offer a LOT of great YouTube videos to walk you through the installation and offer suggestions on how to mount your Blackvue camera. It took me an afternoon to run all the wires, install, and test the unit, and thus far it has worked perfectly.
If you're a bit adept at automotive wiring, this shouldn't be very hard to do--just be sure your ground wire goes to bare metal and all your wiring is kept tied and bundled well away from moving parts or your feet, and you'll do fine.
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A must-have for anyone that's serious about installing a dashcam.
I paired this with a BlackSys CF-100 dual-channel dashcam in a 2015 Subaru Crosstrek. Instructions that came with it were in Japanese but a quick google search for english instructions made them easy to find. Install was very easy and straight-forward. I recommend buying a couple of tap-a-circuit harnesses to make it even easier and eliminate cutting and splicing. They give you TONS of cable if you need it, and rather than having a birds nest behind my radio or under my kickpanel, I decided to wrap it in electrical tape and tuck them away. Without drilling any holes in my interior, this box was easy to tuck under my radio in the spare cubby compartment where the switches are easily accessible and the LED is in sight. I usually keep the switch off when I'm parked in my garage at home, but leave it on when I'm parked anywhere public to enable parking mode. If I'm going to be away from the car for more than 6 hours, I flip a tiny dip-switch to select 12 or more hours. The on/off switch feels a little cheap and wobbly, but seems to work as it should. My switch will see heavy use so I'm hoping it will hold up. Overall a great product at a great price.
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Hisneilness
Not cheap but does the trick
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Très bon accessoire... même si on peut s'en passer au début !
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Ottima componente. rende completo l'utilizzo della Dashcam
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