Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie
Please note that it is not permitted to have referral links posted in your signature. Keep these links contained in the appropriate forum. Thank you.
https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2055940817/signature-rules
https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2055940817/signature-rules
Reversing camera
Options
-
04-12-2006 5:54pm#1
Comments
-
Haven't got one myself but heard from other campervan drivers that it has to have a viewing angle of at least 120 degrees, better 150 degrees. The 90 degree ones simply don't cover the edges.
Another thing to look out for is that the display is switchable so that you can either see the real image or the mirror image. (mirror image being useful when comparing the picture from the camera with what you see in your side mirrors...otherwise you'd get confused).
Some people also wire them to be always on and not just when reversing so that they can be used as a "rearview mirror" while driving.
Can't really comment on quality of different makes.
EDIT:
The one from your link looks a bit useless tbh ...especially for a truck and the dinky 3" monitor doesn't inspire confidence either.
I'd say you'd need something like this
0 -
-
-
My da operates 4 lorries and has been talkin about gettin dem for so long that this christmas iv decided to just go and buy one and see what he thinks, i know he'll never use it, he might not even install it on the lorry so its mainly just a present to shut him up
:):) 0 -
We use these systems by Durite on the off-roaders:
http://www.thetoolboxshop.com/sess/utn;jsessionid=154574be683c1c3/shopdata/0050_12-24v+CCTV+Kits+and+Accessories/0020_12-24v+Colour+CCTV+Kits/product_details.shopscript?article=0010_12v-24v%2BCOLOUR%2BCCTV%2BVEHICLE%2BSURVEILLANCE%2BSYSTEM%2BWITH%2BSOUND%2B%3D280-776-00%3D29
Rear mounted radiators and rollcages preclude having back windows, and thus conventional interior rear view mirrors are useless.
We've fitted the monitors on the centre of the dash, and leave them permanently switched on as rear view mirrors, with the images flipped to simulate the view you'd normally expect to see in a conventional glass mirror.
They work really well in this application, and are perfectly usable even in darkness.
Wouldn't be without them (or something similar) at this stage.
They have so far proved impervious to rain, dirt, and getting hit with trees 0 -
Advertisement
-
-
-
-
-
We didn't get them from that link, it was just a handy spot to illustrate the system.cormie wrote:€600:eek:
Could obviously save more than that preventing you from knocking into an expensive car or whatever but surely they can be got cheaper, ok, I know the Ebay one is £89, but it can't be that much worse? Can it?
We got them in a local motor factors, for approx. €400, IIRC.
Still dearer than the others you linked to above on e-Bay.
The only significant difference I can see is that the screen is bigger (which, believe it or not, is a factor in our particular application :rolleyes:), and there's no mention of any ability to 'flip' the image for a conventional mirror view.0 -
Advertisement
-
Could you explain about flipping the image for the mirror view? Is it not just a case of leaving the camera on, or do you mean to mirror the view, so you see the view you're used to seeing in the mirror (mirrored? lol)?
The screen you linked to is 5.6", the one on Ebay is 7". It would be something I'd be interested in because I'd be doing a lot of reversing in car parks etc with my van I think so could save me a lot of money in the long run if I knock into a merc or something (which I've never done in a car, but still). €100 would seem ok, but wouldn't even think of spending €400 on one 0 -
-
-
cormie wrote:.... I think so could save me a lot of money in the long run if I knock into a merc or something .....€100 would seem ok, but wouldn't even think of spending €400 on one
if you do hit a Merc, you wouldn't even get a quote for Eur100 !! And Eur400 would only buy the paint, never mind the panels! Jeez..............
And, if you want to extract value from the camera set-up - recycle it. By which I mean, take it off when you change van, and put it on the new one. In one fell swoop, it's now cost you Eur 200...........Ode To The Motorist
“And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, generates funds to the exchequer. You don't want to acknowledge that as truth because, deep down in places you don't talk about at the Green Party, you want me on that road, you need me on that road. We use words like freedom, enjoyment, sport and community. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent instilling those values in our families and loved ones. You use them as a punch line. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the tax revenue and the very freedom to spend it that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it. I would rather you just said "thank you" and went on your way. Otherwise I suggest you pick up a bus pass and get the ********* ********* off the road”
0 -
Hehe, I'm not disputing that it could save me money IF I hit a valuable car, I'm just trying to justify spending €400 as opposed to €100 on something that seems to do the same thing?
I can't see mention of the mirror view
I wonder is there a lens you can put over the eye for that? 0 -
-
Advertisement