Touchwood
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- Aug 23, 2011
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I have run both my camera feeds underneath my van, no need to go drilling through the hab. I found a handy bulkhead seal on my pug/fiat cabs just to the right mid of the passenger side footwell to get the wire into the cab and followed an existing wiring loom all the way down to the rear and just clipped the camera wire on at various mounting points with zip ties.....job done easy. In the case of my 2 vans as they were on the standard steel chassis I could get underneath to wire no problem without ramps etc.I need a reversing camera for my lovely new purchase, and was thinking of a wireless jobby to save on running cables through to the cab.
Any recommendations? Would one work with my satnav as viewing screen as the old one did?
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Indeed the wired version needs 2 wires to feed down, I used one of these to take a live feed directly from the fuse box http://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/2-x-Add-A-C...-Fuse-Holder-ATO-12V-/251618137508?nav=SEARCHWith the wireless ones, you have to give them a 12v feed from somewhere, so its not really wireless.
Phil
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Mine is wireless but I also wired to the number plate light. I wired the screen to the illumination feed for the stereo.I've just fitted a wired one to my van. A number plate holder with camera integrated, £20 from Amazon. Plugs into the stereo.
You certainly get what you pay for, first one went back, second one works but was mis wired, no video cable in the loom!
But with a bit of a bodge it does now work well, as of this evening. I've chosen to wire it to the number plate light rather than reversing light so that can use it as a rear view mirror whilst we get used to the van too.
Half way through fitting it I'd have happily swapped for a wireless one, the faff of feeding it through the rear door rubber doobry made my fingers ache! Chose wired for reliability though
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Last van I fitted a bullet camera by the number plate and ran the cables under the chassis but it was only any good for checking if there was someone or an obstacle behind the van so real sence of distance. You can't beat a high up mounted camera if you want to use it for reversing.
Current van I fitted a twin camera high up I can reverse up to within an inch or two of my garage door with confidence.
You can buy combined cables so still only need to run one cable through the van. You need to spend a while planing and investigating the route through the van, I spend days working out how to do it and it took me a whole day to run the cable through the van. You just need to take your time and you end up with a perfect job.
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You being cheeky.Should have fitted one to the front too Lenny.