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Here are a few pictures of my install. It actually works like it was planned. I measured how much camera coax cable I needed (distance from the trailer to the bumper plug) at the most extreme turning angle of the truck with the trailer. That amount of wire harness was right about 5 ft. I then decided on using that coiled yellow trailer plug/harness and routed the camera cable through the coiled wire. I even plugged that into the bumper to help secure it to the truck. The other end of that coiled wire goes through that round cable holder and its secured to the trailer along with the camera coax cable. You can see that I used a wire tie to keep the camera coax from being pushed out and looping at that location. You can see the loop in the camera cable coax up near the bumper which is exactly where I want that. One of the pictures shows me pulling/stretching the cable like it would stretch as if you were turning sharp. I then let the cable go and it goes back in place with the loop near the tailgate. That yellow trailer harness sole purpose is to keep the 5 ft. of camera cable coax from dragging on the pavement and it works very well.
I hope all this makes sense.

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Cool J
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I have a 37'8" Fifth wheel and installed my camera cabling going underneath my RV. I removed the cable from the camera and was able to slide it into 1/2" non-metallic Liquidetight Flexible Conduit fro

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I redid mine today through the fridge vent.  Managed to snake it through some existing holes.      

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The length of the cable is 58ft.  How you route the wiring, where you place it on the rear of travel, and whether the trailer is conventional or fifth wheel / GN.     If you are looking to d

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bsmall1564 - How did you attach the camera to the trailer?  I was surprised when I unboxed the camera that they sent bolts to attach the camera to the trailer.  Did you use screws with washers instead?  

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1 hour ago, McEagle said:

Hi Chuck,

Did the 20' camera extension for the camera that you bought from Pasternack work? 

Yes it shows it in that link, it has trailer pics of the back ramp. 

 

Chuck

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bsmall1564 Enthusiast

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43 minutes ago, W Tilley said:

So if I am not interested in the transparent trailer view, can I mount the camera high on the rear of the trailer?

 

Yes you can, I would just experiment the height you chose to make sure you get the image you want. Someone mentioned that they had a fisheye effect on their image and lowered the camera a little until they lost that effect. 
I mounted mine high and my image was great. 

 

I’ll also add that I’m rerunning the way I ran the cable to the bumper plug after I pulled the coax line out of the plug. 
I thought I allowed enough cable for tight turns on my fifth wheel but didn’t. 
 

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5 minutes ago, bsmall1564 said:

I’ll also add that I’m rerunning the way I ran the cable to the bumper plug after I pulled the coax line out of the plug. 
I thought I allowed enough cable for tight turns on my fifth wheel but didn’t. 
 

 

I ran into the same issue. Thought that I had enough cable on my gooseneck trailer but broke the coax going into the connector when I pulled the trailer out of the barn and went around my circle drive. I was excited to show my wife the new camera and it was blank when I pulled up the screen - went back to the connector and found the coax had broken off. 

 

I ordered a replacement connector to go into the coax. Also ordering the extension from Pasternack - I'm going go ahead and move the connectors into the bed although I was hoping someday to get cameras on some of my bumper pull trailers. 

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50 minutes ago, ShogunKC said:

 

I ran into the same issue. Thought that I had enough cable on my gooseneck trailer but broke the coax going into the connector when I pulled the trailer out of the barn and went around my circle drive. I was excited to show my wife the new camera and it was blank when I pulled up the screen - went back to the connector and found the coax had broken off. 

 

I ordered a replacement connector to go into the coax. Also ordering the extension from Pasternack - I'm going go ahead and move the connectors into the bed although I was hoping someday to get cameras on some of my bumper pull trailers. 

I sent you a PM ShogunKC. 

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On 10/21/2020 at 5:17 AM, alaker42 said:

No, if you undo the screws on either side of the bracket, you can rotate the camera the other direction. One drawback is you won't be able to use the markings on the side of the bracket to line up the camera because the camera will be in a different position. I was able to eyeball the angle and it worked fine though.

 

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On 10/14/2020 at 6:29 AM, alaker42 said:

First time poster, got some great tips here on how to mount the trailer camera so I figured I'd post pics of my install in case it helps others.

 

I have a 26' Travel Trailer so the cable length and hookups were perfect for my setup. Instead of drilling holes for the camera mount, I attached it to the camper with 3M super strength vehicle molding tape. I also placed the camera bracket upside down to avoid having the loop of cable out the top of the camera. I painted the cable white to try and blend it in a bit to the color of the camper. I also bought an extra Camco battery box to hold all of the slack cable at the front of the camper - I just drilled a couple holes on either side of the box to run the cable through. I used Cool J's tip to run the cable underneath through 1/2" non-metallic Liquidtight Flexible Conduit through some of the camper frame cutouts and I attached it in a couple spots with a some Line Clamps. 

 

Took it on a trip over the holiday weekend and it all worked great - love having the rear view transparent trailer option.

 

 

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Did you have to take the camera apart to get it into the 1/2" non-metallic Liquidtight Flexible Conduit ????

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A lot of great info on here guys. Thank you! I am going to be installing mine soon and will update here.

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