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I was stuck in line for COVID testing so I thought I would pull apart my carcam that was not turning on because of a stuffed internal battery causing to to get stuck in an infinite power cycle loop.

The Aldi brand Onix camera

I pried the back off to expose the PCB and screen.

The innards of the camera

I didn’t have a screwdriver to pull the PCB out so I tried looking up the main IC spca1521a-hl091 datasheet

Main IC spca1521a-hl091

I found this datasheet which is from the same manufacturer but a different chip

https://datasheet4u.com/mobile/925383/SPCA1528A.html

This is the underside of the PCB

The battery is a single cell LiPo with a protection PCB.

By David Dobson

I try not to let my age dictate how old I act