RV back up cameras

[dilvoy]

Does anyone have any practical experience with recreational vehicle Back up cameras and their monitors. I want to use one in place of a rear view mirror on my Humvee. Are there any systems that can display two or more camera images on the monitor at the same time or at the push of a button? Any info would be appreciated. George

[Kurt Lesser]

George,

What you want is a surviellance system to display multiple cameras at the same time. Costco had a small b&w system for a reasonable price but you'll need a converter to run it.

I have a number of 5" diagonal flat panel color displays that you can hook a simple camera to for a backup viewer. The displays are $65 and a simple camera can be had on eBay for under $75.

I mounted a display in the housing for a PSG-7 SHTU and it worked great. I never installed it because I mounted a Panasonic Toughbook computer on the upper radio shelf and I feed it a signal from a small USB camera that attaches to the back of the HMMWV. The computer does all my GPS mapping along with MVCC rosters and HMMWV manuals besides the camera. I have the Toughbook CF-M34 on it's docking station with a power converter installed in the base that allows me to power it all of of the vehicles 24 volts.

[dilvoy]

I think that a camera system for an RV will work for my purposes better because some of them have a switch to reverse the image. This makes the image look like the view as seen through a rear view mirror. I'm used to looking through mirrors on vehicles and I think it would be difficult to un learn the angles and possibly unsafe. I'll check with the "experts" at Radio Shack about an image reverser. As an aside, Is or was anyone else upset about Radio Shacks decision to not allow the computer geeks keep their weedy little mustaches while working there? I always went to the employee that had one of those mustaches and always seemed to be well advised. George

[Angry Iron]

Never noticed the Mustache thing. but have seen some of the reversable cameras on ebay.