Fitted my reversing cam today, Ive also got a front cam that is connected to a portable DVR that is recording to a memory card on a continuous loop, the dvr has stop, search and playback just incase needed, the front cam was a CCTV camera, I took the guts out of it, changed the lens and put it in a small plastic electronic project box & hung it from the rear view mirror, here the front cam:
Here the DVR, still got to tidy the wiring:
I also built a small power regulator as the DVR need 5 volts & the front cam runs off 9 volts, the reg has got 2 x 5 volts, 2 x 9 volts and 2 x 12 volts, I built it like that just incase I want to add something else later on:
This is the rear cam:
This is all connected to a small 4.5 inch screen, it has 2 inputs, 1 for front cam and 1 for rear, when I select reverse it automatically switches to the rear camera
Ive set up the rear camera so I can just see the rear bumper, here what you get on screen:
and this is a pic taken on my phone, I did not move any further back when parked so I know even if it shows on the screen im touching a car a wall or whatever Ive still got a few inches left to go
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ImageShack.usI had some fun today getting in some real tight parking spaces, 3 people come out and said you nearly hit my car
