need a back up monitor

This thread just saved me aggravation and money. I followed the advice above and emailed RVCAMS and asked about a replacement. Within an hour got a reply back from Tim giving me some trouble shooting advice before buying. I followed his steps (3 detailed emails from him) and voila, my monitor works perfect. To me it says something about a company that will help a person that has not been a customer even if it nullifies a sale. When I do need a monitor, I'll call Tim.

Thanks to the OP and others who contributed.

I found one on EBay Thanks for the posts.

Thanks Fred! Mine is easy to get to. There is a clam shell cover over it and access is easy. I got it to work for about 1/3rd of the trip today until we hit some massive bumps and it jarred loose.

I never realized how much I used it. Was in a tight space in a strange CG that I had to back out of this AM. And then, this one has side cameras, I kept missing the passenger side camera...never realized how much I used it (driver side: hardly ever). I'm off to to Google Foo. Thanks again.

Belgique wrote:
The Silverback and I may have the same issue? In my case, the monitor is built in to the dash. From quick looking it doesn't seem that monitors are "standard" like the "DIN" sizes of radios. Or maybe I'm wrong?

FCooper: "find a good tv repair shop". Finding a TV repair shop of any kind is like looking for a unicorn these days.

No...there is no standard like the "DIN" sizes of radios. And getting that old monitor out can be a lot of work. I pulled one out of my coach, and it had to go back into the area under the dash to get it out, and it was fairly heavy.

A google search for "crt monitor repair" will reveal some companies that will repair crt monitors.

Fred

The Silverback and I may have the same issue? In my case, the monitor is built in to the dash. From quick looking it doesn't seem that monitors are "standard" like the "DIN" sizes of radios. Or maybe I'm wrong?

FCooper: "find a good tv repair shop". Finding a TV repair shop of any kind is like looking for a unicorn these days.

If you really want to keep the old monitor, pull it out and find a good tv repair shop and ask them to repair it. It's very similar to an old black and white television set.

As far as the manufacturer, here's some info that was valid in 2009

ASA Electronics
2602 Marina Drive
Elkhart, IN 46514
(800) 688-3135
Extention 528 for technical support

You can replace both the camera and monitor with color items from ebay for under $100 total, but there is a little work involved.

Fred

Thanks for the relies, but I was hoping to find a Voyager VOM73SVWIN monitor.

BLUWTR49: re "Pull you camera or monitor and take it good shop. Ask for an adapter. You might just get lucky".

What kind of shop? I have the same monitor as the OP that started working intermittently. I just pulled the plug and 1 pin is brown from heat, I guess. Wiggle the plug and it comes on. I'm guessing it is on the monitor side.

If it is bad I just want the same OEM monitor...don't need color.

Thanks for this thread and the posts.

FIRE UP wrote:

bluwtr49 wrote:
I just spent a lot of time looking at options and what I found is that you can mix and match cameras and monitor to you hearts content. Virtually any camera with work with virtual any monitor, tv, or whatever.

I plugged my camera into the TV to see which was causing me a problem and it worked just great. In my case the camera was bad.

Well Sir,
When you say you can plug "any camera into any monitor", I'm not sure that's quite correct. You see, we have the Sony on our '04 Itasca Horizon, 36GD and, a proprietary, 6-pin-din plug was used for that application and, according to RVcams.com, Sony cameras, ONLY work, with SONY monitors, specifically because of that plug. Now, I'm by far, no audio-visual tech so, at this time, I can only say what they've told me. If you've developed "adapters" to use when plugging in non-like brand monitors and cameras, then I can see how your statement would apply. But, doesn't each maker of camera and monitor have their own plug? I've not tried other cameras or monitors.
Scott

I believe I said "virtually any..." but, that said Sony may be a singular exception but still it's only a plug and I would bet that if you can find a mating plug you can adapt the wires to more common connectors.

RVcams.com was the first place I went to and they gave me a lot of info that was absolutely not true. For example a camera with IR would only work with a monitor that accepts IR which is a total falsehood. I would not longer trust anything they say.

Pull you camera or monitor and take it good shop. Ask for an adapter. You might just get lucky,

Everything else I've looked at use standard connectors and Radio Shack has adapters for most common configurations. I bought a camera on Amazon and the coax plugged right in but had to make a power connector, still all was simple.

It all depends on whether the camera puts out standard video that can be "read" by any brand of monitor. Closed circuit TV often lives by different rules!

My rig has a stone age, "gas-powered" monochrome system, but it does the job. I haven't looked into what standard the video signal is. Who cares, the camera and the display work together just fine. Don't need HD color for that task!

When we first bought the rig, the camera gave a good picture of the rear bumper and about 5 feet behind - as much use as tits on a boar hog. After some investigation, S-i-l and I discovered a molding flash inside the camera cover that was pushing the viewpoint down. A quick job with the Dremel and the view out back is fine. Unfortunately, it didn't stop me backing into a neighbor's rhody across the street and taking about a 50-cent piece size chunk out ot the back bumper's gel-coat.