Rear view camera for trailer

ROBERTSUNRUS wrote:

Ralph Cramden wrote:

colliehauler wrote:

sayoung wrote:

ROBERTSUNRUS wrote:

colliehauler wrote:
Looking at rear view camera wired or wireless? Looking at a 9" or 7" screen with one camera. Any brand suggestions as well?

:) Hi, I use a Garmin RV 760 GPS with a wireless back up camera for my trailer. They have newer versions now.

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I like the idea of a GPS and camera and will check them out.

If you want it for backing up go the Garmin route. If you want it for observation behind your trailer while on the road don't. Garmin's setup does not have the refresh you need while moving at speed. The car you see on your trailers bumper on the monitor, may have already moved to the left and be beside your trailer at the time.

:) Hi, this is not my experience. The picture is not free flowing / smooth, but very close. When I can see the entire front of the big rig in my camera, I have completely passed it.

It is your experience and you describe it when you say "The picture is not free flowing/smooth." That is lag and the lag will vary at different times with the BC30, especially so at night. I attempted to resolve it by buying Garmins extension cable and moving the transmitter to the A frame. It didn't help. The whole setup was taken off when I sold the rig and has been on a shelf in my garage since.

Garmin markets it as a "Backup Camera" and not an "Observation Camera" the same as others and there is a reason manufacturers differentiate the two. As an example take Furrion. They made the FOS48TAPK wireless HIGH SPEED observation camera and the FRC12TAPK wireless back up camera. Both appear exactly the same but the FRC12 does not have the speed that the FOS48 had. I'll be the first to admit the Furrion system was great while it lasted. Really clear 720P video, no lag or stutter, and what you see on the monitor is what is true on the road in real time. Then it sheet the bed in 2 1/2 years.

Garmin only makes the BC-30 and its marketed as a "backup camera". If thats all you use it for it does the job because lag is not a concern backing up at 1 mph.