Reversing cameras

Have you changed from the Poron Roachie
Regards
Ronnie

G'day Ronnie,

Nah mate, it turns out that Poron and Polaris are now one in the same mob...... go figure!!

Cheers

Roachie

Hi, it is to put onto the back of the Patrol and caravan. When we are on the road with the caravan Bevan likes to see if there is anyone behind wanting to pass, (we move over to let them go by instead of holding them up) with the camera it is much easier to tell if there is someone there. We also have grandchildren and with the spate of kids getting run over in the driveways I think the camera on the Patrol would be a god send. They are the main reasons.

Deanna

G'day Barnesy,

I live in the country (Kadina SA) and I find the camera/s invaluable in all sorts of circumstances. Even to the point of making it MUCH easier to reverse the Patrol right up to the exact spot to couple the camper trailer up, without having a huge argument with the better half!!!! hahahaha

For a few hundred bucks it is cheap insurance for reversing. I have 3 kids (youngest is now 5), but in our 4x4 club we have other members with littlies too. I don't think I could live with myself if I ever ran over somebody. My Patrol has twin spare wheels and the back is full of gear all the time. I had long ago removed the internal mirror as All I could see was the kids in the back seat or a whole host of gear attached to my cargo barrier.

My screen unit is attached where the internal mirror used to be.

Cheers

Roachie

now there's a bright spark, well done Emo, got anymore details on that ?

I have just bought a Kit from there.

What made my mind up was Brash Imports appears the only place I could find where the Reversing Mirror Monitor had a decent sized monitor. About 5" which takes up the centre two thirds portion.

You can also pick from a range of different camera combinations to ensure yoy end up with exactly what you want in both monitor and camera.

I cant give any further details as I have yet to install it but it looks to be a good bit of gear.

Thanks Derek for your info on the wireless system as we were actually looking at one of those but I can understand what you have said so will run from that one. Can you tell us a bit more about the ones you have coming?

Cheers

Deanna

PS. Same person who posted the original thread,the name change is because of membership

Hi Deanna,

Here is a site link.

Camera

I've been thinking about the same thing. Nothing obvious come up on the net (lots of the reverse - using a PDA as a webcam). One idea I'd like to try is an IP webcam (a wireless webcam that acts as its own web server so you lauch a browser on the PDA and connect to the camera through wifi. Unfortunately the cheapest I've seen are over $150 eg
Site Link
The company is in Melbourne however so if I find the time might see if I get go there and try the idea out. Whether it works will depend on how quickly it all comes up - if you have to wait a minute for the image to appear then it would be painful (the browser could be set to go the the image as its home page but the camera may need to boot) Probably not waterproof either so positioning may be a problem.

Adrian

Thanks, will be interested to know how you go

Hope it is OK for you.

I have heard reports that the mirror type buckles in a hot car and the mirror is useless after that. They seem to use some type of see through PVC with a mirror film.

Let us know.

Regards Derek.

Mirror Type

Thanks for the link Derek ... I fully expect it to be a get what you paid for situation... If the mirror does suffer in the heat, can always mount it above the existing mirror as a monitor only. Cheers.

soft.... or old :P

Thanks for that Wazza, it looks pretty nifty. We will be interested in how it works on the road. It is what we are looking for but we also want one on the caravan as well so that would have to be wired up also. Great pics

Thanks again

D & B

Wazza

Would you please tell me how to add the Photos to the site the way you have ?

Thanks

BBB,

Firstly, load the photo's to a free photo server such as photobucket.com

When you are posting to the forum in Exploroz (like I am doing now), there is a tip to Post Hyperlinks at the bottom of the screen. You replace the text domain.com/image_path with the addrss (URL) for the photograph. In photobucket, this link is supplied for you when you have loaded your images, or if you want to simply link to a photo on the internet somewhere, you can right click on the photo and go to properties and copy the address (URL)

Clear as mud?