Reversing Camera

Matt,
I guess that depends on the type of vehicle you have. On my 80 Sereis Landcruiser I ran the cables in the channel along tom of the door sills at the edge of the carpet via the front passenger side scuff plate trim. The plastic scuff plates needed to be prized off carefully to permit the cables to be placed beneath them. I Cable tied the cables to the existing cables that run along the channel.

I removed the moulded plastic side trim in the luggage area at the back of the vehicle to run the cable. I used the loom to tie to and then the filler cap release cable.

I exited the inside of the vehicle via a rubber grommet in the well that houses the jack and spanner bag that came with the vehicle.

The cable was run into the tailgate again via a plastic grommet at the bottom of the tailgate.

WBS

I had the camera wiring installed inside the van during construction and it comes out with all other wires in a 12 pin connector.

The vehicle has 12 pin socket. The row of seven for normal trailer wiring and the other five are available for video. This brings the video to a small screen on the dash for constant rear vision behind the caravan. It works great!!!

Retro fitting to van would need care to not damage existing wiring.
Having the video in a 12 pin plug just makes life easy as only one large cable to connect to vehicle.

Alan

In my van the camera is mounted high up to see over any vehicle close behind.

As such the camera is inside the overhead cupboard which runs across the van.

The wiring runs along that to the side of the van then into a wardrobe space where it runs down and through the floor with appropriate sealing.

From there it is secured along the chassis rails to the A frame where it is connected to the 12 pin flat trailer plug.

Hope this helps

The easiest is to get some cable tubing and a bunch of p-clamps and run
the tubing along the underside of the caravan to the front.

Use a wall plate with spray cover on both sides (vehicle and caravan) and you get a neat finish. You connect with a standard cable between the two.

For the power to the camera you can use a switch inside the caravan or wire it it permanently to your Anderson plug line if you have one.

I have used wireless AV transmitters into the vehicle for the various cameras
I have on my truck camper and use a remote control to switch on power to cameras and transmitters in my truck camper.

good luck
gmd

I fitted mine to the centre of the spare wheel where it is well protected. I ran the cables through the hole in the centre of the spare wheel carrier, along the top of the bumper bar in conduit, then along the side of the longitudinal chassis rail (with the tail light wiring), then inside the RH A-frame rail and out with the main cable harness. Has worked very well on both our vans.

I mounted mine high and centre, on the rear of the van and the cable runs across the top and down the front on the "roadside edge" and connects into the rear of the troopy......it is a four pin plug, small and weather proof....I have three cameras..... 1x on van rear...1x troopy rear, up high too....1x rear, passenger side, of troopy up high so I can see up the road when I am angled parked......I have a 3 position switch so I can select the view I need at the time...for example while towing I can check the front of the van and the hitch etc....even though I have the cameras I still have the side mirrors as well.
Where the cable runs I used small amounts of silastic to "glue" it into place and it has not moved.

Hi Matt, I ran mine as others have done under and behind the panels in the car to the inside of the rear quarter panel. There I exited the inside of the vehicle and came down toward the wiring harness that went into the tailgate and intered the tailgate via the rubber factory fitted tube and grommet thing. Mine is an 80 ser. cruiser.

For the van I ran the cable along the side of the 'A' frame until I could get inside the main chassis member of the van and ran it all the way to the back inside said chassis member. In my case I came up through the floor and inside the cupboard at the rear of the van (sink) and drilled a hole through both the inside and outer panels to fit the camera. I mounted the camera above the spare tyre so that I could get a closer view of the area immediately behind the van for safety (Kids etc.) when reversing.

To power the camera I continued the reverse wire from the trailer plug to the rear of the van so that it came on only when reversing. I was a little concerned at the heat these thing generate if left on too long. Probably OK, but that is just my preference. Reverse power wire was routed beside the video cable along the van to the rear.

I used a good quality quad shield aerial cable such as would be used to couple to your TV aerial on the roof and also used quality 'F' type connectors at each end which had adapters to RCA connectors at each 'F' connector.

The connectors fitted to most cameras are RCA connectors and likewise at the monitors.

Mine works extremely well and I am very pleased with the overall strenght of the cabling and also the small cost for the installation.

Cheers, Bruce.

Thanks for the help, some good ideas there.

Regards,

Matt