PeoriaKen wrote:
Thanks for the answers, been out of town and just got back. I will start with the back of monitor and check the connectors and see if that helps. If not I'll go from there.
PeoriaKen,
I too have had the same exact problems. It has nothing to do with radio towers or flying saucers etc. I've had it happen in the middle of nowhere, with nothing around for miles and miles. It's also happened in cities and county areas. It can be any number of issues with these things. My system is the Sony system and they are not in the RV camera business anymore so, if and when mine goes out completely, I'll have to spring for a complete setup, camera, cable and monitor.
As far as a good source of help, RV cams.com have been mentioned and, I just had a few email communications with Tim and he was great in explaining what's happening in those systems. Like yours, at times, mine gets so distorted, wavy lines, darkening, then, completely black. Sometimes, I "whack" the dash and vuallla, I get a good picture again. Well, realizing that I may have a bad connection in the back of the monitor, I removed the top of the dash and removed and replaced those connections, several times. No real help.
I'm thinking if it is the monitor, it's "inside" the thing. I've fiddled with the cables etc. while viewing the pic and sometimes I get better a better picture and sometimes I don't. I did remove the camera on the rear and a few feet of cable which, revealed the connection. I untapped it and noticed some corroded pins in the DIN connector. Well, there's no real way to clean them except some painstakingly scraping with a tiny home made sharp bent piece of wire.
It may have helped some but, between what's going on at the back of the monitor and, that connection, it's really hard to tell. Good luck.
Scott
