"One-touch power supply [equipment addition] Power extraction [straight] Mazda CX-8 "Nekonade"" > 자유게시판

■ First, take out the power

A Mazda CX-8 "Nekonade" that arrived at the admin's place a while ago

Recently, it's become common to have devices like dashcams, so I decided to do something about the power supply required to install such devices.

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■ Straight one-touch power supply Low-profile blade type

I've written about installing a one-touch power supply to a CX-8 a while ago

Installing a dashcam [equipment addition] TYPE S [Costco] Mazda CX-8 "Nekonade"

But at that time, I just prepared a power supply and thought, "As long as the dashcam can work, that's fine," so it didn't work for the way I envisioned it (no recording when parked in the garage, but recording when parked with the engine turned off when I'm out and about).

So, to accommodate the way I envision it, I decided to take two types of power: a power supply that is always on and a power supply that is linked to the accessory power supply.

The interior fuse box in the CX-8, located near the passenger's feet.

The role and capacity of each fuse is written on the back of the box lid.

You'll need to check the manual, but basically the left column in the image should be the power supply that is always on, and the right column should be the power supply that is linked to the accessory power supply.

A one-touch power extraction kit to replace low-profile blade fuses.

I bought several of these, including mini-blade type ones for other models.

One-touch power supply (low-profile blade type) before installation

If you remove the original fuse and install the one-touch power supply, insert the removed fuse into the empty slot of the one-touch power supply to maintain the original circuit and fuse function.

I installed the "one-touch power supply" in the empty slot on the constantly powered side.

By the way, in the case of my CX-8 "Nekonade", the column on the constantly powered side had electrodes (contacts) prepared, but there was a slot that did not originally have any fuses in it. The slot was (R.OUTLET3 15A).

There was no empty slot with an electrode connected to the column on the accessory power-linked side (the column on the right), so I moved the original fuse to the one-touch power supply side.

Now I have two types of power supplies, one that is constantly powered and one that is linked to accessories.

I will connect each device to this via a switch.

■ Current situation

In the case of the drive recorder that was installed previously, a seesaw switch was installed to switch between "always" and "accessory" (and off), and three types of modes can be switched by manually switching the switch.

・ Records during normal driving, etc., and does not record when the power is off when parked, etc.

・ Records during normal driving, etc., as well as when parked with the power turned off. (Note that the number of frames recorded during parking, etc., can be set to a different number from normal in the drive recorder settings. There are modes that save capacity by, for example, shooting one frame per second or one frame per 10 seconds, instead of the number of frames that is the same as during normal driving.)

・ Power off (no recording)

The three types of modes can be switched.

■ Other

Probably, the manufacturer of the drive recorder also provides a setting to connect to a constant power source, so there is no particular problem with recording 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, but as a personal hobby of the administrator, it was psychologically tough to keep recording the shutters in an empty garage for days on end.

That being said, there are times when you want to take a picture just in case in a parking lot when you're out and about, so it's a hassle to have two different power sources like this one.

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