$1600 quote for reversing camera on car and van . OK ?

Terrifying for them if true !

By the way mine is a Polaris.

I will ring them and check which one it is . Thanks for your input .
Willie .

Hi Graham ,

I am an incapable clutz with things like this

I have decided to mount my camera on the high rear bumper of the Bushtracker though - not on the roof . That way it will not get caught on the roof cover .

I am going to ask them what brand of camera and screen they are quoting on .

It sounds like they are a tad expensive .

Thanks ,

Willie .

I have a piece of foam with a cutout in it that I just put over the camera when I put the cover on, the cover holds it in place. Survived the last two weeks storms OK. And cant get pinched from up high hopefully.
Also I found as I said in the other thread Dont get a camera with IR. They arent as good in bright sunlight as a straight mini cam. Tried both and can assure you its true. The Swann with IR had no colour everyhing was a washed out beige. If u put a cover over it like a bucket it improved but was no good in bright daylight. The $49 minicam from Ebay is perfect.
Also a separate screen is FARRRRRRR better than a rear vison mirror one as it reflects and cant show the pic thru the image very well. It will if u point it down away from the window but that defeats the point a bit doesnt it. All found out by trial and error and $ wasted

"Don't get a camera with IR. They aren't as good in bright sunlight as a straight mini cam"

My Poron has IR and its excellent in bright sunlight as well as at night.
I would suggest that the camera you had was perhaps faulty in its aperture control.

Mine was a SWANN and when I quizzed them the tech said
" They are optimized for low light conditions as its hard to build one which is optimized for both".
Only going on pure experience.
It could be a mismatch between makes but I think not with thisa particular one. I realise others have had success but just am just impating my trial and failure with this one.
The ordinary one works fine and i can reverse into my garage with just the brake and reverse lights and see quite well. Havent tried the van in the dark yet.

I should add that the IR is not all that effective at night anyway as the IR LED's only emit enough light to see a couple of meters.
I agree with you about the brake and reversing light assist at night.

Mrs Hen ,
These are the people BT recommended , as they did not want to do it themselves during my factory visit in Feb to have an extra solar panel and battery put in .
Willie .

Hi Willie

I have heard no complaints about the work Sound in Motion do with fitting the cameras to new BTs and tow vehicles, and thought that this added around $2 or 3g to the price of a new rig - not sure about that price though. We went for the Hong Kong eBay $9 cameras and did the work ourselves - of course the result is not as good.

Mh

OK , Thanks for the info Paul . I have not got much room left either .
Willie .

That should read "A few on HERE"
Need to read properly :-)

G'day John,
Yeh, the extra camera, with it's associated wiring, plugs etc, was about another $300-; but that's still only $600- all-up and I fitted it myself (and I'm a banker, not a mechanic's back-side...hahaha)

Roachie ,
We may have gone to the same handyman school.

Willie,
You might be wearing the Dunce's hat from the Handyman's School, but that is only cos you pinched it from Roachie. LOL

Thanks Ian ,
It seems the problem is more about finding a good installer at a reasonable price than getting the hardware .
Willie .

Derek best who is an advertiser on here sells what looks like a good kit and is very helpful. His business is ABR, website
www.sidewinder.com.au

Cheers

Pete

Why not run the wires thru the chassis like I did . I pushed a piece of alky water pipe up till it got to an opening at the front and just pulled the cable thru. Dead easy ( provided you have an entry point up near the front.)

Steve and Graham ,

I will check out both ideas , but I certainly won't let them run them exposed under the van or car .

Actually the wires will be going straight through the back wall of the van into a big cargo hold . I am not sure where I will take them then .

You guys are embarrassing me into trying to do this myself .

Thanks ,

Willie .

The other trick to running wires through any sort of tube is to use string, tie a cotton ball on the end and suck it through with a vacuum cleaner (don't let SWMBO catch you in the garden doing this through irrigation pipe with the good vacuum cleaner!)

That's very clever Pete - great tip .
Thanks ,
Willie .

Hey Pajman Pete
10 points for your tip!! Gotta do a job this weekend and I'll definately save a lot of time following your idea
Thanks

Hi Peter ,
Who did the installation ? I have been warned about the wireless ones.
Thanks ,
Willie .

Willie
I've no idea who did it as the dealer organised the installation before delivery. I found the model of camera and screen on the net somewhere (can't find it now) and it was about $500 to buy outright. They also supplied the stepdown transformer and then ran the wiring the full length of the bus to install the camera right up the top just below the roofline at the rear. the dealer said it took 2 guys 2/3rds of the day to do the installation and the wiring is all out of sight. So $1200 was probably reasonable, I wasn't paying ;-))

Perhaps if you have a TV tuner card or an AV or video input. I bought that screen to hook up to the notebook which is going to be perched on the cargo barrier and the screen has AV, VGA
( notebook input) and TV nd is a touchscreen as well So if u had one of them $225 from Honkers you could run it into it but only 1 thing at a time.
Would be better with separate small screen Will send u a pic on Saturday of what Im thinking of adding beside my 8" screen which will do the job exactly.
God any more screens and I will need a copilot.LOL

OK thanks Graham - you have my email address there .
Willie .

PS . I have a screen breeding problem too .