F*** !!!, Just fried the mini video cam for my car Options

[campbellcj]

I am usually pretty decent with electrical/wiring stuff. Not today - I just cooked the tiny $125 wide angle video camera I was putting in my car. (The plan was to put the DV camcorder in a padded box - it has a remote - and then use the little remote cam and stereo mics mounted to the cage or basically anywhere I want, inside or outside.)

CRAP!

[john rogers]

A couple of things, the washout from the over the shoulder mount is due to the mostly black interior affecting the white balance with a camera having a wide field of view. If the inside of the car was white there would be no trouble at all. Super Circuits also sells a control module that lets you override the auto settings on the unit that Cheris has (and I use too) I also put a lucite panel in the targa top of my race car that cured this problem and now I can read my gauges. The low frequecncy noises can be due to electrical interference. I was told by the Super Circuits tech guy to install "chokes" or filters on the power leads to the cmaera and recorder and when I did the strange background noises went away. If you use an MSD box of any kind they sell a choke that will isolate the car's electrical system from interference with the box. I have one on the power supplies to the MSD box. Good luck