Having been a happy Wolfbox user, when towing our trailer I decided it would be handy to be able to see the rear view from the back of the trailer itself rather than just from the back of the Grenadier. So I bought a second camera and worked out how to switch between them.
The normal rear view camera lives on the inside of the rear door, pretty central.
The cable runs through the door and into the right hand side of the boot space, in the style of those of us who haven’t successfully navigated the rubber conduit at the bottom of the door. So far so predictable.
I then ran another cable through the unused nato socket space, using a handy hole in the towball assembly for connecting to the trailer camera.
Like so. Very satisfying.
The second camera then lives on the back of the trailer like so, with the end running under the trailer to the towing hook as above.
Both cables (the one for the normal camera and the one for the trailer camera) terminate in the handy pull-off-lidded box in the boot, and I cable tied to the inside of the box, allowing for an easy manual switch-over from one camera to the other when the trailer is hooked up.
Really pleased with this. Switching across is pretty quick and easy too. I might chop the ends off the cables (or more likely buy some sacrificial short ones) and add a switch / relay to make the changeover process less manual. It’s such a rare occurrence that I’ll probably leave it like this though.
Bonus shot: here’s the camera lead that now lives in the 13-pin cable snake. Will it corrode? Will I replace it with a 4 pin waterproof pluggable aviation cable? Stay tuned over the next couple of years.
The normal rear view camera lives on the inside of the rear door, pretty central.
The cable runs through the door and into the right hand side of the boot space, in the style of those of us who haven’t successfully navigated the rubber conduit at the bottom of the door. So far so predictable.
I then ran another cable through the unused nato socket space, using a handy hole in the towball assembly for connecting to the trailer camera.
Like so. Very satisfying.
The second camera then lives on the back of the trailer like so, with the end running under the trailer to the towing hook as above.
Both cables (the one for the normal camera and the one for the trailer camera) terminate in the handy pull-off-lidded box in the boot, and I cable tied to the inside of the box, allowing for an easy manual switch-over from one camera to the other when the trailer is hooked up.
Really pleased with this. Switching across is pretty quick and easy too. I might chop the ends off the cables (or more likely buy some sacrificial short ones) and add a switch / relay to make the changeover process less manual. It’s such a rare occurrence that I’ll probably leave it like this though.
Bonus shot: here’s the camera lead that now lives in the 13-pin cable snake. Will it corrode? Will I replace it with a 4 pin waterproof pluggable aviation cable? Stay tuned over the next couple of years.
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