unless its canbus compatible, u will have problems with it, is what im lead to believe. The problems being a flickering picture....

ive seen loadsa threads started on here were people say they've bought one, but i never see a comment about how it turned out, which makes me think it wasnt a success. i may be wrong but thats what i think.

I've thought about fitting a reversing camera many times but then the fact there is no feedback about them i decide against it. it mightnt cost much, but its a gd bita time and effort to get it fitted and all wired up, just for everytime u put the car into reverse you get a flickering picture

 

you will get probs if u run it from the reverse light there is a main power line into the rear rec or if you have an amp run it from that

 

if you have an amp run it from that

That's actually a good idea. I hadn't thought of that.

So how would I do it, just connect the 12v cable for the reversing camera to the 12v terminal on the amp? :shrug:

 

had mine run from the reverse lights and the rec and neither worked had to go the ignition live from the ciggy in the end

 

If its run from the ignition live then though, wont that mean that the HeadUnit won't autoswitch to it when you select reverse?

 

youyd need an on/off switch in it (Y)

 

yeah would still go to it because the camera will be on, work that way on the eonon anyway as you can choose to view the camera with out it being in reverse. wouldnt be able to use this feature if it was from reverse lights

 

I have fitted a Reverse camera to my astra , to solve the flickering from using the reverse camera power I used a relay I bought from halfords!! , very simple and a cheap fix basically using the reverse camera wire to flick the relay over to a better stable +12v power source to then feed the reverse camera , solving the flicker issue and power up via reverse gear.

 

I had a the same problem with the screen flicking, solved it by wiring the camera off of the remote power lead to the amp in the boot and ran a cable from the stereo to the reverse light so the stereo knew when reverse is selected, this does mean that the camera is powered when the stereo is on but can only be seen when selecting reverse, this solved all the problems


Vxr'd 5 door Astra h Sri 2.0 turbo

 

did this get installed? i was thinking about doing it too..

 

I just finished fitting my reversing camera and found this thread helpful.
I used the remote lead of my amp (blue wire from the stereo switched when the stereo is on) and the same earthing point as the amp to power the camera, and as I was using a Erisin Chinese double din head unit I need a 12v switched reverse, originally I tried to take this just from the reverse lamp but this caused the head unit to go in an out of reverse camera mode, to fix this I installed a relay using the reverse lamp wire as the input and then wired it to the stereo and hid the relay behind the glove box, this worked like a treat.