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The classic newbie question of all time *face palm*

I’ve installed a rear camera but can’t for the life work out how to wire it in regardless of trawling the forums and web. Can’t work out what I’m doing wrong.

I started by wiring it into the reverse light as many folk have said, which works perfectly until the engine is on.

I then move to the rear wiper but as it’s a constant 12V once it’s in reverse, it all works but the lights on the camera never go off so I assume it’s running power too it all the time. I was hoping I would t have to faf with a relay but I’m assuming that’s going to be the answer?

Help much appreciate... getting to the point where I’m gonna rip it all out soon!


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Brooneye has just finished installing his maybe he could help out here

What head unit?
If it's an android one with an external canbus box you can tap into the canbus to head unit reverse wife to trigger a relay and use that to power the camera.

totty79 wrote: ↑Tue May 29, 2018 9:24 pm What head unit?
If it's an android one with an external canbus box you can tap into the canbus to head unit reverse wife to trigger a relay and use that to power the camera.

According to this 'how-to': http://caddy2k.com/forum/viewtopic.php? ... ra#p254121 the canbus reverse wire is +12V so can splice straight into the camera power.

I'm about to do the same thing so it's a question as much as a suggestion!

My radio already has a canbus built in :-/ is that what you meant?


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totty79 wrote:What head unit?
If it's an android one with an external canbus box you can tap into the canbus to head unit reverse wife to trigger a relay and use that to power the camera.

It’s an Android RNS510 knock off with a canbus built in. Also has a wire for a sub which puts out a pretty hefty voltage but I’m not sure where start with a relay in honesty!


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Liam wrote:Brooneye has just finished installing his maybe he could help out here

Cheers liam! Just asked the question.


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Regarding the canbus reverse wire I'm sure that would work. I wanted mine on a separately fused feed from the fuse box, just to limit any damage if it shorted.

I'm not familiar with the Android RNS510 knock off, but ......
Output for sub is normally a mono audio and a 12v signal to turn the amp on. Anything using a higher voltage would be very unusual.
Relays just use one circuit to switch another. You've already tapped into both the rear wiper and the reverse light, so you could try the following - buy a relay and connect as follows connect terminal 85 to earth, 86 to reverse light, 87 to reverse camera positive, 30 to rear wiper positive, camera negative also to earth (double check the terminals using the diagram on the relay or it's packaging). Provided the canbus reversing lights switch the relay OK (I've read elsewhere that they do) then the camera will only be powered when in reverse.

By doing it the way I mentioned the camera only powers up on the screen when reverse is selected. It’s a case of 1 wire from under the steering wheel to the trigger wire on the back of the head unit


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Apologies just seen this is in a thread that the op started and then he asked in my thread where there is details on how I done it


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So I’ve sorted a relay out, seems to have done the trick but the image is still flickering?

30 - Power from wiper
86 - Switch from reverse light
85 - Earth from van chassis
87 - power to camera

What am I doing wrong?



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Flickering all the time or only with the engine running?
I'd run a temporary live straight from the battery as a test, to see if the flickering is caused by the power source or not.

You sure your not using th reverse light for power? I made that mistake and had the dreaded flickering


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brooneye wrote:You sure your not using th reverse light for power? I made that mistake and had the dreaded flickering


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Yeah sure it’s not that. Can’t figure it out... god damn camera! Bane of my life ATM!


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I don’t understand where your going wrong and why you need a relay.

I thought my wireless transmitters were not working so I used the hard wire to test. You should have one of these



Black wire to pin 5 on rear wiper and red to pin 1 on wiper. That will give you early and power to the camera.

Run this cable



One end in the camera plug and one end in the brown port on the back of the head unit

Next is the trigger wire use plug 3 pin 12 on the cecm should have a blue trace. Solder a bit of the wire that you cut off the top of the thick camera cable to that pin out and then to the back of the head unit



Hook everything up and try with your engine running. The only time I had the flicker was when I mistakenly used the reverse light for power


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