Has anyone adapted Waeco/Dometic cables to rear view camera or monitor?

[MisterB]

The reason is ask is that my MH has a Waeco/Dometic cable pre installed - the original owner went for reversing sensors instead of the reversing camera. I do like the sensors but would like to install a camera and rear view mirror monitor aswell. The Waeco/Dometic cable is obviously intended for their specific camera/monitors but I want to fit different ones, so that's why I am looking for cable adapters. The ones I have seen are around £23 each. so I wondered if anyone had ever made up their own or know of somewhere less pricey? I realise that the Waeco/Dometic cable is really just a load of wires terminating in a specific connector and the connector could probably be cut off and the wires already installed from front to back utilised, but if I can I would like to keep them in their original form.

so any suggestions, information or advice are more than welcome.

 

[tonyidle]

I'm normally all for DiY & have made up many and varied plugs / cables but £23 sounds like a small price to pay. To adapt you will need two phono females & a cord end power socket + appropriate cable for each end.. At least one wire in the Waeco cable will be screened - it's hard to identify which wire & the screen connection without chopping off the existing plug / socket.

 

[Ninjabob]

Might help?

 

[Sandancers]

I have extensively ripped apart the Waeco cabling as there was an intermittent fault on my camera system. I'll see if I can find the photos, might take a couple of days tho.

 

[mike mcglynn]

Hi, I bought a Waeco / Dometic cable connection as I was going to fit another camera to my van for European usage but I never got round to fitting it or the camera so if it’s any use you can have them for a small fee I think I paid £47 for the two .

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[timetochill]

I have extensively ripped apart the Waeco cabling as there was an intermittent fault on my camera system. I'll see if I can find the photos, might take a couple of days tho.

Would like this also have an Adria with this type of cable although no waeco

 

[Sandp]

Hi just done the same thing with my bailey mh that came pre wired for the waeco camera,if you go on the reversing camera or parking camera website and look in the cable section they do a two wire kit for about £17

 

[MisterB]

Hi, I bought a Waeco / Dometic cable connection as I was going to fit another camera to my van for European usage but I never got round to fitting it or the camera so if it’s any use you can have them for a small fee I think I paid £47 for the two .

sounds like a plan if they would connect up to what I have bought or am buying. do you have photos/specs via (pm) private mail?



!! I am glad I made this post - unless of course you are a bluenose, in which case I have just shot myself in the foot LOL

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[Lenny HB]

cables but £23 sounds like a small price to pay.

Not when you need 4 of them, I had already fed my cables through the van when I found the Waco ones in my van it saved me £67.

 

[mike mcglynn]

I will take a few pics tomorrow ,they are buried in my garage and well done reds

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[tonyidle]

Not when you need 4 of them, I had already fed my cables through the van when I found the Waco ones in my van it saved me £67.

Four?
I thought one for each end perhaps.

 

[Lenny HB]

Four?
I thought one for each end perhaps.

Twin camera.

 

[Sandancers]

As I read the OP he has NOT got the twin camera system. The Waeco cable fitted in our van, tho it ran twin cameras has only one video lead in it as the Waeco system swaps video feed at the camera end.

 

[Lenny HB]

Ours has twin Waco leads separate cable for each camera.

 

[MisterB]

just the one lead, so i have gone for single camera, i didnt realise you could run two cameras on one single waeco lead ! hopefully the camera should arrive tomorrow so i can see exactly what i need to get to hook it all up

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[Sandancers]

OK, found pictures which might help. Hope the photos fit the narrative in logical sequence.

The waeco cable as fitted in my MH has a six pin connector on each end, male at the monitor end and female at the camera end. On my fitting as it was a twin camera with a shutter it required a 12v signal sent from the monitor end to tell the camera to change views, which also moved the shutter. But the video signal was only sent down one screened cable no matter which camera was in use. This was de-coded by a little box at the camera end which also split the inputs from up to three cameras for this monitor. On the pic which shows the stripped waeco wire the video wire is the clear plastic with the copper screening pushed back up it. The other wires are power, ground and various signal cables.

I have included a pic of a wire I was given (to fit camera end) which allegedly would connect to a non waeco camera, it didn't. I suspect the pin outs on the waeco cable did not match the pin outs of the given wire. It would have to be belled out to check and I could not be bothered. You would need an adaptor cable to do the same thing at the monitor end.

I'd think the best way to solve it would be to ask a reversing camera specialist to supply the correct adaptor cables, on the basis that if they don't work you get your money back !!

If the OP would like the adaptor cable I have (free as I have no use for it) send me your address by pm and I'll send it on, tho it would be after Xmas.


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Waeco splitter cables and box


Adaptor cable


Adaptor cable plug



Waeco cable internal wiring and plug

 

[pipnwal]

OK, found pictures which might help. Hope the photos fit the narrative in logical sequence.

The waeco cable as fitted in my MH has a six pin connector on each end, male at the monitor end and female at the camera end. On my fitting as it was a twin camera with a shutter it required a 12v signal sent from the monitor end to tell the camera to change views, which also moved the shutter. But the video signal was only sent down one screened cable no matter which camera was in use. This was de-coded by a little box at the camera end which also split the inputs from up to three cameras for this monitor. On the pic which shows the stripped waeco wire the video wire is the clear plastic with the copper screening pushed back up it. The other wires are power, ground and various signal cables.

I have included a pic of a wire I was given (to fit camera end) which allegedly would connect to a non waeco camera, it didn't. I suspect the pin outs on the waeco cable did not match the pin outs of the given wire. It would have to be belled out to check and I could not be bothered. You would need an adaptor cable to do the same thing at the monitor end.

I'd think the best way to solve it would be to ask a reversing camera specialist to supply the correct adaptor cables, on the basis that if they don't work you get your money back !!

If the OP would like the adaptor cable I have (free as I have no use for it) send me your address by pm and I'll send it on, tho it would be after Xmas.

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Waeco splitter cables and box

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Waeco cable internal wiring and plug

Hi I m in the middle of the same issue, although my screen stopped working, but the co0nversion freom waeco to a Pioneer AVH 4400BT screen screen/radio etc. Whoever fitted it has made a right hash of the installation, with wires poorly soldered or broken etc. Would you be able to tell me what the cable colours mean, I ve got the black, red and green and the white(clear) from photos taken when stripping. but the yellow and blue were either broken or not connected to anything as they had no stripped wire end when I took it apart. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

 

[Lenny HB]

No rhyme or reason to colours from Chinese manufacturers so can't be much help.
The normal standard is yellow for video, Red +12v, black earth, white audio. but not in your case.
The video & audio cables should be screened cable.

 

[Sandancers]

Hi I m in the middle of the same issue, although my screen stopped working, but the co0nversion freom waeco to a Pioneer AVH 4400BT screen screen/radio etc. Whoever fitted it has made a right hash of the installation, with wires poorly soldered or broken etc. Would you be able to tell me what the cable colours mean, I ve got the black, red and green and the white(clear) from photos taken when stripping. but the yellow and blue were either broken or not connected to anything as they had no stripped wire end when I took it apart. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Not sure what you are saying.

Do you have a Waeco installation which has just stopped working because your waeco monitor has stopped working and you are trying to connect the waeco camera to a Pioneer radio which has video input.

OR

In the past someone has tried to connect the Pioneer radio to the waeco camera but it has never worked ?

 

[pipnwal]

Not sure what you are saying.

Do you have a Waeco installation which has just stopped working because your waeco monitor has stopped working and you are trying to connect the waeco camera to a Pioneer radio which has video input.

OR

In the past someone has tried to connect the Pioneer radio to the waeco camera but it has never worked ?

A bit of both really. I have had this van for 5 years and everything worked as advertised. The screen went blank, the radio etc works correctly....but no display, totally black out. The waeco lead has been chopped and changed to connect through an RCA connector, its been put together as well as I could do, as it was a real hash before, but all the same issues. The tinternet says that it could possibly be a new touch screen....and I think that is the best option, as the handbrake switch is a big issue, however, I can t see this being the problem, but more than happy to take any advice.

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[Sandancers]

Don't see how the handbrake switch could be involved. The reversing switch could be involved to either the old waeco set-up or the set up to the Pioneer radio. This switch tells the monitor to swap from back view to down view (in the case of a twin waeco camera) OR to switch display (on the pioneer radio) from radio info to reversing camera display. I would disconnect the handbrake switch wire while you are fault finding.

First priority is get some form of picture on your display. A couple of pictures of your camera (is it a single or twin camera) and whatever you are using to be the monitor would help.