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USER GUIDE 

Model: SBX3100

www.kcicommunications.com

VER 1.2.0
4

th

Edition

Thank you for purchasing the Smart Black Box Drive Recorder.

Please ensure that you read and understand this USER GUIDE

before connecting and installing this Recorder.

Please store the USER GUIDE in an easily accessible location.

Summary of Contents for SBX3100

Page 1: ...m VER 1 2 0 4th Edition Thank you for purchasing the Smart Black Box Drive Recorder Please ensure that you read and understand this USER GUIDE before connecting and installing this Recorder Please store the USER GUIDE in an easily accessible location ...

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Page 3: ...G TO QUALIFIED SERVICE PERSONNEL WARNING TO PREVENT FIRE OR ELECTRIC SHOCK HAZARD DO NOT EXPOSE THIS APPLIANCE TO RAIN OR MOISTURE Caution Install the product where it does not block driver s visibility and where there is no airbag installed This could cause an accident or might injure the passengers in case of accident Please make sure you follow the safety advice instructions given in the user g...

Page 4: ... signal is installed in the vehicle e g Other GPS devices such as a certain type of wireless activated alarms MP3 and CD players and camera alarms using GPS 4 If you are using a receiver connected by cable electric interference can be avoided by simply changing the location of the receiver antenna 5 On heavily overcast or cloudy days if the vehicle is in a covered location such as under a bridge o...

Page 5: ...t 2 4GB SD memory card The PC Viewer software is provided on the SD card 5 You should have a set of the following items for each SBX 3100 order 3 GPS Antenna module 4 Remote Controller 5 Audio Video output cable 6 Power Cable ...

Page 6: ...6 CONTENTS 8 Wire Splice clip 5pcs 9 Sticker double sided tape 1pc 7 Camera input cable 10 Velcro Sticker 1pc ...

Page 7: ... SD Slot SD Door Audio Video Output External MIC input BUZZER Internal Microphone Camera 1 2 Input Remote Control Input GPS Input Power Input Alarm Car Signal Input Turn left Turn right Brake Speed pulse Rear View Camera Input ...

Page 8: ...TE CONTROLLER 8 Record LED BLUE LED Overwrite LED RED LED SHUTTER BUTTON PLAY BUTTON PANIC BUTTON Audio Video Output Cable Video out 1 Video out 2 Audio out 1 Note The same screen will be shown through the Video out 1 2 ...

Page 9: ...9 INTRODUCTION Power Car Signal Input FUSE 250V 3A Red Black Ground BLUE Alarm1 Yellow Alarm3 White Speed pulse Green Alarm2 ...

Page 10: ... file during the continuous recording It will mark the Event area as Alarm1 3 G senor or PANIC button in the continuous recording file which can be easily searched for during playback Live screen on Monitor SBX 3100 will display the live screen on the monitor The camera channel can be changed using the information OSD Refer to page 13 Playback in the car Recorded files can be played back in the ca...

Page 11: ... blink during event recording RED LED Overwriting The red LED will be turned on when start overwriting Buzzer FUNCTION MAIN UNIT 11 Beep sound will occur when event panic recording starts this can be turned off In the setting menu on the PC viewer if required This also signals any system error VIDEO LOSS warning Beep sound will occur continuously when video loss Check the camera and camera connect...

Page 12: ...m1 to 3 or by the G sensor and will begin with one short Beep sound 5 The panic recording can be started by pressing the PANIC button Removing the SD memory card Turn off the power and then check the BLUE LED light Once the BLUE LED light is off take out the SD memory card 12 Inserting the SD memory card System Error Buzzer A Beep Beep sound will occur and the BLUE RED LED light will blink simulta...

Page 13: ...tton INFORMATION OSD LIVE VIEW Turn on the SBX 3100 and press PLAY button to turn on the INFORMATION OSD the summary of setting To change the live display channel press PANIC button to select the camera And then press PLAY or SHUTTER button to escape CAM1 CAM2 CAM3 Activated Record Mode System NTSC Quality Super Overwrite ON G Sensor Level X 3 Y 3 Z 3 G Sensor Calibration Firmware Version SBX 3100...

Page 14: ...ded the first time the SBX 3100 is used Press and hold panic and shutter button simultaneously more than 2 sec for calibration Press any single button to escape Park vehicle on a flat surface with at least 5 meters of space directly ahead and press panic button once Move vehicle directly forward 5 meters and stop G Sensor Calibration is finished successfully Press any button or wait 30 seconds to ...

Page 15: ...anic recording SBX 3100 doesn t make a separate panic file during the continuous recording It will mark the panic area by PANIC button in the continuous recording file which can be easily searched for during playback SNAPSHOT RECORD BY SHUTTER BUTTON Press SHUTTER button The SBX 3100 will take a snapshot of 1 image with 5 seconds of audio one short Beep will sound from the SBX unit ...

Page 16: ...one during playback Explanation of PLAYBACK control button Channel change Press PANIC button Move to the previous file Press and hold SHUTTER PLAY button Move to the next file Press and hold PANIC PLAY button PLAY PAUSE Press PLAY button SLOW PLAY Press PLAY button more than 1seconds Return to record mode Press and hold SHUTTER button more than 2seconds ...

Page 17: ...C Viewer may not function properly OS Windows 2000 Windows XP Windows Vista Windows 7 CPU Pentium4 2 6GHz or higher RAM 512MB or higher Interface SD Memory Card Reader HDD Free space Install 20MB or higher Backup 2GB or higher Display 1 024 x 768 pixel High Color 16bit or higher Recommended PC specifications for PC Viewer software ...

Page 18: ...ck the DRIVEREC3 drive and select Open 3 Double click SETUP EXE in the pcsw folder 4 Select the language and then follow the dialog box 5 The PCViewer icon will be displayed on your desktop NOTE To Un install the PC Viewer Driver Recorder 3ch Open the Control Panel Select remove program and remove PC Viewer SBX 3100 18 PC Viewer software is in the provided SD card ...

Page 19: ... card directly into your PC s SD card slot or into a USB SD card reader 2 Run PC Viewer Drive Recorder 3ch 19 3 Select File and then click Select Data Folder or Click OPEN button OPEN button 4 Select SD memory card folder at the folder select window ...

Page 20: ... Windows setting However it can be changed with this PC viewer setting menu To see the better quality playback pictures on your PC check Deblocking box To set PC Viewer select File and then click PC Viewer Setting This setting is for the PC Viewer software itself To set the recorder refer to page 27 ...

Page 21: ...ad Button All Button The Event file list recorded by a triggered G sensor or Alarm1 3 The Panic file list recorded by pressing the PANIC button The Continuous record file list The Snapshot file saved by pressing the SHUTTER button The Log file list All recordings and snapshot files will appear the file area under the tab ...

Page 22: ...ing PLAYBACK SCREEN Playback position indicator The Yellow mark indicates there is an Event triggered by the G sensor Alarm1 3 or the PANIC button 22 The icon name can be changed in the setting menu Eg G Sensor Data UD Up Down direction FR Front Rear direction LR Left Right direction GPS location information the north latitude the east longitude ...

Page 23: ...tion Sing View CH1 CH2 CH3 Quad View Playback buttons Pause Next Image Previous Image X0 5 1 Play X2 4 8 16 Fast Forward X0 5 1 Reverse X2 4 8 16 Fast Reverse 4x4 Multi View Thumb nail function Zoom In G sensor graph Zoom Out G sensor graph Reset Zoom 6 Click PLAY button for playback PLAYBACK 23 ...

Page 24: ...s 1024x768 mode Enter Return to the previous mode Enter Full screen mode Alt Enter Return to the previous mode Enter Playback speed control Ctrl F 0 5 1 Reverse playback speed control Ctrl B 0 5 1 Pause Play Space Previous Image direction button Next Image direction button ...

Page 25: ...hould be connected to the Internet The playback position will be shown on the map with an arrow The blue markings show the route taken Double click the blue mark to change the video playback position to that point The camera icon indicates that there is a recorded file The total camera icons shown will be less than 100 even if there are more than 100 events When the unit is set to Normal recording...

Page 26: ... to change the playback position Click right button of mouse to go back to single Quad image playback mode 8 Click Close button to quit the event playback Click Close to finish the event playback Then the Playlist window will be changed to the initial status Thumb nail Function 26 ...

Page 27: ...Save JPG file AVI file Pause the playback and click Save Image icon to make a JPG file Pause the playback and Click Save AVI icon to make a AVI file Save Image icon Save AVI icon 27 ...

Page 28: ...Print image Print image icon 11 Pause the playback and click Print Image icon Input Print Title Print Comment using Keyboard Total Print Comment window allows up to 7 lines total 28 ...

Page 29: ...nt button in the print preview windows for printing Print Title Print Comment G sensor graph map will be printed on the first page Click 2x2 and then click Print to print 4 images in one page 29 To print CH1 3 together select 1frame only ...

Page 30: ... files to the PC Backup icon Check Load Event Normal Panic Log Memo data first before clicking the Backup icon The selected files will appear in the lists in the Backup windows OR Check Backup All and press Start button to backup all files 30 ...

Page 31: ...hange All normal recording data or all event recording data in SD card will be automatically deleted to make a free space at SD Backup SD card data first before clicking initialize SD card button OR before changing the Record Mode from Normal Mode to Event Mode or vice versa All normal recording data or all event recording data in SD card will be automatically deleted to make a free space on the S...

Page 32: ... 15 fps D1 2 Cameras supports 1 30 fps Half D1 3 Cameras supports 1 10 fps D1 2 Cameras supports 1 15 fps Half D1 Quality High Large file size but good picture quality Low Small file size but low picture quality Pre Event Post Event Pre record Post record time can be set here Post record time should be 5 300sec Overwrite Overwrite The image data is overwrites the oldest files when the SD memory is...

Page 33: ...ion as below G Sensor setting If G sensor sensitivity value is too high like 1 it becomes too sensitive so it will detect even a light impact or light turn If G sensor sensitivity value is too dull so it might no detect a notable incident So sensitivity should be set in consideration of a vehicle s suspension condition and also the road condition If you don t want to record an Event triggered by G...

Page 34: ...d set the configuration of Drive Recorder will default to the factory settings Delete Record Data All date will be deleted Vehicle ID Type in your Vehicle ID Password Enter 4 numbers from 1000 to 9999 as a password Search on system function Playback on a car will not work after set the password Buzzer Beep sound ON OFF when Event recording starts Video Type This should be set by Camera Video type ...

Page 35: ...TEP3 Select Tool and then click SD Initialize We recommend the SD initialize at least once per month to prevent the SBX 3100 from any software errors Drive Recorder Settings cont d Caution Once the record setting was changed all recorded data in SD card will be removed automatically Select Backup YES or NO before lost the all recorded data ...

Page 36: ... or G Sensor indicators to show how the recording was triggered Log data Log data will be recorded during driving even if there are no events The total log data size can not exceed 48MB The unit overwrites the oldest data when 48MB is reached Using this log data we can use the data sorting function to help find specific data for example to find all the times when the vehicle was travelling at more...

Page 37: ... Google Earth button BX1000 Plus only STEP1 Install the Google Earth on your PC http earth google com STEP2 Check the log file STEP3 Click Google Earth at Tool menu We recommend to use Google Earth Version 5 0 or above Tip Click Car Track and then Click Play Tour button to play the recorded journey in Google Earth ...

Page 38: ...39 Recording Storage Time Table NTSC Note This is a guideline only Actual results may very depending on a variety of factors Video signal image etc ...

Page 39: ...40 Recording Storage Time Table PAL Note This is a guideline only Actual results may very depending on a variety of factors Video signal image etc ...

Page 40: ...ecording Continuous recording ON OFF Event recording ON OFF Quickly OFF Event recording during continuous recording mode 5seconds ON OFF Quickly OFF SHUTTER recording ON OFF Quickly OFF During Overwriting Pre Event recording Continuous recording ON ON Event recording ON OFF Quickly ON Event recording during continuous recording mode 5seconds ON OFF Quickly ON SHUTTER recording ON OFF Quickly ON On...

Page 41: ...udio 5 sec Main memory 4GB SDHC support 32GB SDHC GPS External GPS Module G Sensor Internal 3 axis G Sensor RTC Internal battery Car Signal Brake Left Turn Right Turn Speed Pulse Alarm Input 3 Door Meter etc Compression MPEG4 Continuous recording MJPEG Event recording Remote controller PANIC button PLAYBACK button SHUTTER button LED 2 Red Blue Analysis Software PC Viewer support Google Earth Super...

Page 42: ...his product is supplied with 1 year warranty The Warranty excludes products That have been misused including accidental damage and damage caused by normal wear and tear In the unlikely event that you encounter a problem with this product it should be returned to the place of purchase For full warranty information please visit http www thecarblackbox com Documents Smart_Black_Box_Policy pdf 43 ...

Page 43: ...m 70g Wire L 5000 10mm STR 100IR DC 5V CCD camera for SBX 3100 1 3 Sony Super HAD CCDⅡ Angle of View 145 Effective Pixel 510 H X 492 V NTSC 500 H X 582 V PAL Video out 1 0 Vp p Composite Min Illumination IR LED On 0 lux Operating Temperature 20 C 60 C Input Voltage 5V Power consumption Max 320mA LED ON 43mm x 38mm x 35mm 70g Wire L 5000 10mm MIC 100 External Microphone for SBX 3100 Directivity Uni...

Page 44: ...rating Temperature 20 C 60 C Input Voltage DC 12V DC 8 16V Power consumption 110mA 25 12 x 29 14 x 27 01 mm Include 8m extension cable STR 132A CMOS Rear View Camera Waterproof IP 67 1 4 Hi Resolution CMOS Angle of View 163 Effective Pixel H 648ⅹ V 488 NTSC PAL Video out 1 0 Vp p Composite Min Illumination 0 05 lux Operating Temperature 20 C 70 C Input Voltage DC 7 48V Power consumption Max 45mA 2...

Page 45: ...ow you to hard wire the Drive Recorder series to the fuse box of your vehicle Connect to the fuse box It should be connected to an battery circuit The ground cable should be connected to car chassis The safe power supply cable will automatically cut off the battery power when battery voltage dropped below 12V or 24V 6cm W 2 7cm D 1 5cm H ...

Page 46: ... au dio far from the confines of his vehicle Simply attach the body pack transmitte r to your belt or shoulder strap and you are ready to record The transmitter ca n even trigger an alarm on the SBX software to initiate recording and indicate when the mic was on The audio receiver mounts vehicle and also acts the tra nsmitter s charger A Li ion battery provides 12 hour talk time 20 days stdby ...

Page 47: ...on with the SBX 3100 system Please refer to below image for setup 1 Power cable to SBX unit 2 Connection to Trigger cable 3 12V power cable to SBX monitor optional 4 On off switch for internal car mic 5 Power cable from SBX unit to KT24 Receiver 6 Internal Mic cable 3 1 2 4 5 A B A KT 24 transmitter and receiver system B SBX3100 Unit 6 ...

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