9 LED Day/Night Wide-Angle Waterproof Car RV Camera
by Giles on Sep.21, 2009, under Backup Camera system's, Stand alone cameras, UK available items
So I found this, a cheap but well made camera from BV electronics. Its a nice enough piece of kit, the whole thing is about 1.5″ long and made from weatherproofed materials throughout so it shouldn’t be too hard to mount in a concealed spot on the back of your vehicle. It includes as the description says, nine IR type LED’s that will greatly assist the device during low or no light operations. It connects via some industry standard RCA (phono type) jacks sending a composite type video signal out that is compatible with just about anything capable of displaying a picture. Best of all its less than £20 – including shipping!
Naturally there is a down side, but only the logical one. Namely that if you have an independent camera you have to decide what your going to plug it into manually. Likewise you’ll have to discover for yourself how best to mount it on your particular vehicle. I wouldn’t recommend setting this or any camera in the rear bumper! If it were me I’d consider making a careful hole in the plastic of the reversing light (assuming I had two) That way you’d be right on top of the standard power supply of this type of system.
So if you have a built in video display – like a DVD player or a fancy Sat Nav that has external input and don’t mind running a bit of wiring then this is a perfect solution for you to add a backup camera system as well to your vehicle. The vendor will ship overseas and as of this writing the cost of this item would be about $18 + $8 shipping still making it a competitive buy over here in the US. So if you have a decent grasp of car fixing up this is the most economic way to get that extra bit of safety a backup camera system provides into your vehicle today.
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