Rearview camera on highway

my added on back up cameras could be wired any way you wanted them. there was a warning about having it switched since the lifetime was limited if left on all the time.
bumpy

Order the backup camera of your choice, then power it differently. An easy way to do it would be to grab power from a marker light but then your lights must always be on. Or you could pull a dedicated power source to the back of the trailer. The only difference is how you wire/power it.

OK,
but are there any cameras that are battery powered? I'd prefer a solution that doesn't puncture into my RV (drilled holes, screws, etc.
getting at a running light seems like it would necessitate cracking the sealant.

poguelife wrote:
OK, but are there any cameras that are battery powered?

Sure, a Swift Hitch SH02. I've got one, use it for hitching up, but having experimented with another wireless camera system that I previously owned for looking at traffic behind the trailer I suspect you'd be disappointed. Most of these cameras have a pretty wide angle of view so when looking back they don't really give you the perspective you need to judge how far back that next vehicle may be ... one moment it seems way back, next moment that same vehicle is right on top of you. :E Waste of time IMO.

SoundGuy wrote:
Most of these cameras have a pretty wide angle of view so when looking back they don't really give you the perspective you need to judge how far back that next vehicle may be ... one moment it seems way back, next moment that same vehicle is right on top of you.

Agreed. Although I'm glad I have my camera on all of the time. Takes some of the stress of lane changes away.

One other thought is that I've noticed mine, at night, gets washed out to almost complete uselessness with the headlights.

What if you attached the camera way up high facing down?

I rigged up a baby monitor that had both halves battery powered. added it on the toad, but the picture was reversed. a little disconcerting to look at it and see vehicles passing me on the right when I was in the right lane. somebody here identified two wires that could be switched in the monitor to set the picture straight but I never bothered.
bumpy

i wired mine in to my running lights, so any time i want the camera on, it's as simple as flipping on the running lights. and my monitor is right above my rear view mirror, so it's natural to check it and seems like a mirror

originally posted 5/6/15

New to GoodSam forum and the information/interaction is terrific. Thanks.
We (Wife and I) just purchased/installed (not a "techy" nor a huge "DIYr") a continuous-view, rear view camera (digital, wireless) for added safety while passing trucks (but useful for backing up-night time IR, monitoring the status of the bikes on our "1UPusa"-bike rear rack) but have only used it in our garage-driveway and not on the open highway (to test for any interference with multiple other digital/analog noise).

It establishes a digital, fixed-wireless, "hot spot" and we wanted to modify the camera/router mount/"power wiring" for our 20' long (collapsed while towing) Trailmanor. We placed the 12V powered Netgear router inside the rear of the TV, mounted the Sharx camera to the AC shroud and hardwired the camera power to the tongue battery pigtail (avoiding having to open/close the TT to begin/terminate power to the camera/router). Our distances (published range specs are far more generous) are modest (~8' from router to monitor-which is our own android base smart phone and camera to router ~17') though part of the beauty is using ones own smartphone (w/included app, free download) as the monitor to sit on the dash (sand bag mount similar to a Garmin GPS mount).

Interested folks may view the video (youtube) that was cited on one of the air stream forums a couple months ago.
http://www.rvrearviewcamera.com/home.html
(NOTE: customer resource/technical service is 10+ AND I have no personal nor financial relationship with this firm). Hope this helps.

* This post was edited 05/06/15 02:42pm by Stormpeakco *

{tpc} wrote:
What if you attached the camera way up high facing down?

Then I can't clean it with a quick swipe when I walk behind the vehicle. :)