pbhawkin
Member Since: 14 Dec 2006
Location: Mudgee
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Hi all,
I have a camera mounted on a bracket to the rear top stop light and comes on automatically when reverse is selected on my GPS screen.
The image displays with the rear bumper showing at the top of the screen and further away is towards the bottom of the screen (this is correct). However the left and right sides are reversed! So any objects on the passengers side appear on the right side of the GPS screen and not on the left or passengers side!
When connecting it all up the rear view camera's RCA video terminated in a male plug and the GPS's video in cable also had a male RCA plug  !! So I had to get a adapter to connect them.
Is it possible that if I got another adapter that converted (swapped) the connections/wires over would the image be correct on the screen?
I had thought of turning the camera through 180 degrees but that surely would then flip the image to have the rear bumper then appearing at the bottom of the GPS screen...wouldn't it? ANYWAY, the damned camera is mounted in the bracket so tight that I am unable to move it 
Any help appreciated. regards
Peter
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Oct 2013 SDV6 3.0 HSE.
2007 TDV6 SE E-diff, adaptive lights sold 1/2014
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 20th Feb 2009 1:30 am |
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kernowexpeditionaryforce
Member Since: 15 Jan 2009
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sounds like you used a true image camera, but you need a reverse image cam ....what cam did u use?
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| 20th Feb 2009 2:03 am |
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pbhawkin
Member Since: 14 Dec 2006
Location: Mudgee
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The link to the camera is here:
http://www.octapc.com.au/prod258.htm
it is sold as a 'reversing camera'
the GPS came with it free:
http://www.octapc.com.au/prod245.htm regards
Peter
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Oct 2013 SDV6 3.0 HSE.
2007 TDV6 SE E-diff, adaptive lights sold 1/2014
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| 20th Feb 2009 2:31 am |
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GraemeS
Member Since: 17 Mar 2008
Location: NSW
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Why is it correct to have the bumper showing at the top when the camera is looking down from above? Maybe I'm missing something but it sounds as though the camera is upside down - rotated 180 deg.
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| 20th Feb 2009 2:40 am |
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pbhawkin
Member Since: 14 Dec 2006
Location: Mudgee
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GraemeS wrote:Why is it correct to have the bumper showing at the top when the camera is looking down from above? Maybe I'm missing something but it sounds as though the camera is upside down - rotated 180 deg.
Because the rear bumper is closest to the camera's location and when viewing it on a screen the top of the screen makes sense to have the closest image to the camera appear and the bottom of the screen have the furtherest image. Errr, does that make sense?
Also, at the moment I can't rotate the camera to check! regards
Peter
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Oct 2013 SDV6 3.0 HSE.
2007 TDV6 SE E-diff, adaptive lights sold 1/2014
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| 20th Feb 2009 3:30 am |
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radionightster
Member Since: 12 Feb 2009
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Where did you tap into the reverse light for the camera?
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| 20th Feb 2009 7:27 am |
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pbhawkin
Member Since: 14 Dec 2006
Location: Mudgee
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I soldered the Pos and Neg wires (as can be seen in the link to the camera above) to the reverse light and a ground. These then were routed out from the light cluster across the 1" gap and under the top rear tailgate seal, nearest the light cluster, and then routed inside the trim up to the top centre of the rear door and again out under the clip-on dust seal to the top of the tailgate.
See (not so great) pictures in my gallery. regards
Peter
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Oct 2013 SDV6 3.0 HSE.
2007 TDV6 SE E-diff, adaptive lights sold 1/2014
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| 20th Feb 2009 9:02 am |
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GraemeS
Member Since: 17 Mar 2008
Location: NSW
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When a person is standing behind your vehicle, does the person appear to be standing on their head?
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| 20th Feb 2009 9:09 am |
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simonsi
Member Since: 14 Oct 2007
Location: Auckland
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Turn the camera the other way up when you can, I think you have a reverse image camera but have it upside down, all the install I have ever seen have had the rear of the car at the bottom of the screen. Cheers
Simon
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| 20th Feb 2009 10:37 am |
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pbhawkin
Member Since: 14 Dec 2006
Location: Mudgee
Posts: 377
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If you are bashfull tune out now!........
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I just did a little 'experiment' with my wife.......  !
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And I must say she never looked so good.....
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especially UPSIDE DOWN   
OK. now that you are ALL gotten off the floor and climbed back on your seats and taken a big breath and wiped the tears away how about telleing me how to rotate the camera within the bracket without breaking anything! regards
Peter
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Oct 2013 SDV6 3.0 HSE.
2007 TDV6 SE E-diff, adaptive lights sold 1/2014
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| 20th Feb 2009 12:26 pm |
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SJR
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pb
If you are now looking for advice on how to move the camera, do we assume that in your experiment you were rotating your wife I believe that every human has a finite number of heart-beats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.
Buzz Aldrin (1930 -
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| 20th Feb 2009 12:29 pm |
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pbhawkin
Member Since: 14 Dec 2006
Location: Mudgee
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I may, or may not, have been rotating my wife, or anything else
As I probable do NOT want to see my wife in the reversing camera picture upside down (or for that matter any other way), I think that rotating just the camera may surfice at this stage regards
Peter
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Oct 2013 SDV6 3.0 HSE.
2007 TDV6 SE E-diff, adaptive lights sold 1/2014
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| 20th Feb 2009 12:42 pm |
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stapldm
Member Since: 11 Sep 2006
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If you're having issues rotating the camera, then perhaps rotating the GPS screen during reversing should suffice? Dr. Ian Malcolm:
"Yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should."
Transgenic tomato anyone?
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| 20th Feb 2009 3:08 pm |
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simonsi
Member Since: 14 Oct 2007
Location: Auckland
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Turn the camera fwds and have it look at a mirror??? Cheers
Simon
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| 20th Feb 2009 3:20 pm |
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radionightster
Member Since: 12 Feb 2009
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pbhawkin wrote:I soldered the Pos and Neg wires (as can be seen in the link to the camera above) to the reverse light and a ground. These then were routed out from the light cluster across the 1" gap and under the top rear tailgate seal, nearest the light cluster, and then routed inside the trim up to the top centre of the rear door and again out under the clip-on dust seal to the top of the tailgate.
See (not so great) pictures in my gallery.
Thank you sir!
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| 20th Feb 2009 3:31 pm |
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