Mussl Kar

I have to back my 28' gooseneck up my driveway. Two stone walls line the driveway and only one could be softened slightly. At present wifey helps with a 2way radio. What I really need are cameras on the trailer to see exactly where the back end is heading. Really difficult in the dark, much easier in the light where I can see at least one side.
Anybody use these? Wireless types?
There is one wireless type that clips over the rear view mirror and can handle 3 cameras.

Sboxin

We have a rear camera and very tight fit also -- 24' Tag-- really doesn't help
much - our camera is mounted top center and is wireless 2.4 not the best video quality
- maybe if you mount one on each side of the trailer so you can see where the tail is going.

However, the camera really helps out on the road in traffic.

Regards,

Vonschmidt

We tried wireless and the resolution does not allow it to help. Leviathan holdings on ebay sold us wired systems for each trailer. I strongly endorse them. We even have sound.

LuigiVampa

Looking for a backup camera for enclosed trailer. It looks like all the wireless systems don't work well from what I see.

Any other recommendations for a hard wired system? This one on Amazon seems to get reviews but wanted to see what the brain trust at RL says.

flink

I went DIY.

One of these monitors mounted over the rear-view mirror:
One of these cameras mounted at the rear of the trailer:
And a second camera mounted at the rear of the RV for when I'm not towing. The monitor accepts two video sources and you can switch between them. The rv-mounted camera is also useful when lining up the RV with the trailer to get it hitched up.

That plus a whole pile of RCA-to-RCA video cable and it all works very very well. Running the cable above the RV roof liner was of course a pain.

I tried a fancier camera (Pyle PLCM22IR) but it wasn't able to drive more than 6' of cable. Those cheap cameras drive 60' easily. They aren't very waterproof - they get misted up after rain. In the rainy season I undo a couple of screws and let the cameras dangle inside their vehicles to keep them dry. A better camera would be better, as long as it can drive that long cable.

Before doing all this I did some reading about the wireless systems and they all sounded pretty horrid. Going hard-wired is of course a lot more work, but that was all 3 years ago and now I just get to enjoy the results.

When reversing, the trailer camera is useful for checking that I'm not about to flatten someone/something, but I don't find it useful for aiming/direction. For that you need good side mirrors. I store my trailer next to my house, which involves reversing it through a gate which is 10" wider than the trailer. I ended up making my own side mirror with a bit of wood and bungy cords, to get it just right. Nowadays I can often reverse it through in one shot which sometimes gets applause from passers-by

linzman

I have a voyager wireless camera. It came with the trailer and it works well. Not HD. and not great in the dark, but I with my old trailer, I needed help backing my trailer into its parking spot by my house, now I can do it alone.

LuigiVampa

Flink - curious why you went with DIY instead of buying a system for a comparable amount of money? I do like the monitor you picked as that is one of my problems - where to put it. Between radar detector, forward facing camera, and GPS, the front of my truck is pretty electronic heavy.

linzman - Is this what you have? http://www.campingworld.com/shopping...p-system/55960

It got good reviews but it is really expensive!

ninjabones

Luigi.. what forward facing camera are you using in your truck?

linzman

Yes, I was lucky. It came with the trailer. Expensive for what it is, but I like it. I have an F150 and bought a mount a while back fans it mounts right on my dash.

LuigiVampa

This is the one I bought -
Works pretty well. I had a few close calls in the space of a couple of weeks and decided that I didn't want to have to argue my side of the accident should it happen. For $179 I think it is great insurance.

ninjabones

that's a great f'ing idea... does it have a hard-wired power option? cigarette lighter or usb?

LuigiVampa

It plugs into the cigarette lighter but I have been thinking about hard wiring it. The plug into the side of the unit is the older (larger) USB plug so I was going to play with the wires at some point and hope I don't kill the unit with some faulty wiring.