Recording audio into a DVR

[FPVSteve]

Yea but this has a nice neat case and won't look like something i've made :)

[iwan_canobi]

Jeez, you guys are hard to please! Solder 3 wires compared to buying an external dictaphone, copying files, having to synchronise etc is a big faff?

Maplin also has one - http://www.maplin.co.uk/p/adafruit-electret-microphone-amplifier-with-adjustable-gain-a87rk

Tiny and set to the minimum gain for line level, solder the output to an RCA cable of your choice (which you are guaranteed to have as iPeel says) and stick it somewhere and you are done. Minimum cost, minimum hassle. In fact, I may just buy one myself, been meaning to do this for a while!

[iPeel]

I saw the Adafruit but ruled it out because it only supports up to 5v so couldn't be powered directly from a 2/3s supply. It could be powered off a BEC though but may suffer some noise.

[FPVSteve]

I'm already powering everything G/S related from a 5V BEC hooked up to a 12V lipo so that would work.

Just remember that obvious stuff like this is not obvious to someone who has no experience of doing it - i.e. me, hence why I asked the question in the first place. I assume you guys would just head out and do it :laugh: Me, I'd rather have something prebuilt so that it's actually going to work rather than me having to waste money buying component after fried component...

[iwan_canobi]

Perfectly reasonable to ask the question, just seemed like a simple answer was made out to be a massive complex operation (not by iPeel, by the subsequent responses).

I know what you mean, you don't want a faff but this should be a simple one to implement. I hadn't noticed the 5v supply on the Adafruit, but if you have a BEC it should be fine. You may get some noise though as iPeel says. Hmm. Maybe best just with the ebay one in that case and get an RCA adaptor.