reverse / rear view camera

Hi Nick,

Just bought & fitted one of these just last week. Very happy with it and with the monitor I also purchased.
Have used Delonix before for driving lights and have found both their products and service to be excellent.

Prior to this I tried a camera from Jaycar feeding into my Hema HN5 navigator. Very poor performance and also discovered that the image does not appear until the navigator has "booted-up" taking some time, so not real good when waiting to reverse in a shopping car park etc.

The only difference to me is that a reversing camera is wired up so that it is activated by putting your vehicle into reverse and visa versa. A rear view camera is wired so it can be on all the time and [probably points back up the road behind you.

I bought my set up from Safety Dave. Google him for more information

WBS

Nick
Check out Safety Dave on line (in Melbourne I think, but his delivery system is excellent) I've had two setups from him over the last few years with no problems.
If its for the cruiser in the pic it should be a relatively simple matter to install the second camera high on the back door and run the cables through the door.
Stay safe
TJ

Just mount the camera you bought from Ebay ( much cheaper than the ones advertised here ) onto a good / convenient place on the back.

Run the power and AV leads back to the original camera's AV joiner. ( good reference point for running new power )
Join the 2 AV leads with a simple 2=1 AV joiner from any reputable audio supplier.

Disconnect the towball's camera power , Run separate power supply to both cameras from the cab and hard wire them.
It's only 2 wires as you can use the earth from the original power supply for both.
( or one wire - depending how the original camera is wired at the cab end )

Fit a 3 way switch ( middle off ) to power either camera in the cab at a good spot, connect the input power to the accessory power supply.

When the screens active and you want to use either camera , rear view or towball, just flick the switch up or down.

That way you don't have to fit more screens and ancillary gear and you can fit as many cameras in parallel as you like and only the camera you power up will work.

Ron

I run a full time rearvision camera on my hilux because you can see bugger all out of the back at the best of times, at night looking thru 3 sheets of glass all I can see in the rearvision mirror is on comming traffic and the white line.

ANYway.

there is no need to controll the power to the cameras seperately, both my cameras stay powered up along with the monitor while the ignition is on, I use the input switches on the monitor to change cameras.

Your monitor may have a reverse power wire, just connect this up with the positive supply......you may want to put a dash switch over the whole supply, because at night on the open road the monitor can get a but bright and distracting.

I'm using standard 120 deg butterfly cameras from altronics.......they are cheap enough and seem fair......but they certainly are not high end.
I tried a few different cameras and these seemed to be the best option.

If you want something high performance probably best to look at the heavy transport items.

You could use some of the commercial CCTV cameras, but oftennthey just don't have the right viewing angles and are not rugged enough or rigid enough on thei branckets.

cheers