c5 rear view camera install ???
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St. Jude Donor '12
c5 rear view camera install ???
Trying to install my Coolertron rear view camera in my c5 and was wondering if anyone else has done this? Not many connections, so should be to hard. Has anyone else installed one?
Where do you tap the black rca with the red wire for the constant/aac 12 v power supply in the rear of the car? It also has a black wire for ground. It is my understanding that this is the constant power for the camera when the car is on so you can just turn the camera on anytime from the head unit.
I connected the red power supply from the yellow rca to the purple/white on the head unit and then to the reverse lights at the rear of the car. It is my understanding, this is the switch when you put the car in reverse.
Where do you tap the black rca with the red wire for the constant/aac 12 v power supply in the rear of the car? It also has a black wire for ground. It is my understanding that this is the constant power for the camera when the car is on so you can just turn the camera on anytime from the head unit.
I connected the red power supply from the yellow rca to the purple/white on the head unit and then to the reverse lights at the rear of the car. It is my understanding, this is the switch when you put the car in reverse.
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I've read both of your posts several times, and I'm a bit confused at what you've done, so I'll just start from the beginning.
The camere should have a bare red and a bare black wire, the black goes to ground and the red goes to EITHER the reverse light +12v (if you only want the camera powered when you're in reverse) OR to a SWITCHED +12v wire somewhere in the car (so you can watch the camera while driving forward). You can use the same switched wire that powers up the radio (red wire on radio harness) or any of the switched power sources in the fuse panel. I don't know of any switched power sources in the rear of the C5.
The camera should also have an RCA plug, connect that to the HU 'rear camera' input, which should also be RCA.
The HU should have a bare wire (probably purple) that needs to be connected to the reverse lights. In C6 you can make that connection in the passenger footwell, but in C5 I'm 99% sure that needs to be done at the reverse lights (or possibly at the underhood fuse box, but since you're already running the video wire just use the lights). At the light the black wire is the ground, use the other one.
That will power your camera, and have the HU switch to that camera when you put the car in reverse (as long as the HU is properly set up to know the camera is there).
Does that make sense?
The camere should have a bare red and a bare black wire, the black goes to ground and the red goes to EITHER the reverse light +12v (if you only want the camera powered when you're in reverse) OR to a SWITCHED +12v wire somewhere in the car (so you can watch the camera while driving forward). You can use the same switched wire that powers up the radio (red wire on radio harness) or any of the switched power sources in the fuse panel. I don't know of any switched power sources in the rear of the C5.
The camera should also have an RCA plug, connect that to the HU 'rear camera' input, which should also be RCA.
The HU should have a bare wire (probably purple) that needs to be connected to the reverse lights. In C6 you can make that connection in the passenger footwell, but in C5 I'm 99% sure that needs to be done at the reverse lights (or possibly at the underhood fuse box, but since you're already running the video wire just use the lights). At the light the black wire is the ground, use the other one.
That will power your camera, and have the HU switch to that camera when you put the car in reverse (as long as the HU is properly set up to know the camera is there).
Does that make sense?
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St. Jude Donor '12
I've read both of your posts several times, and I'm a bit confused at what you've done, so I'll just start from the beginning.
The camere should have a bare red and a bare black wire, the black goes to ground and the red goes to EITHER the reverse light +12v (if you only want the camera powered when you're in reverse) OR to a SWITCHED +12v wire somewhere in the car (so you can watch the camera while driving forward). You can use the same switched wire that powers up the radio (red wire on radio harness) or any of the switched power sources in the fuse panel. I don't know of any switched power sources in the rear of the C5.
The camera should also have an RCA plug, connect that to the HU 'rear camera' input, which should also be RCA.
The HU should have a bare wire (probably purple) that needs to be connected to the reverse lights. In C6 you can make that connection in the passenger footwell, but in C5 I'm 99% sure that needs to be done at the reverse lights (or possibly at the underhood fuse box, but since you're already running the video wire just use the lights). At the light the black wire is the ground, use the other one.
That will power your camera, and have the HU switch to that camera when you put the car in reverse (as long as the HU is properly set up to know the camera is there).
Does that make sense?
The camere should have a bare red and a bare black wire, the black goes to ground and the red goes to EITHER the reverse light +12v (if you only want the camera powered when you're in reverse) OR to a SWITCHED +12v wire somewhere in the car (so you can watch the camera while driving forward). You can use the same switched wire that powers up the radio (red wire on radio harness) or any of the switched power sources in the fuse panel. I don't know of any switched power sources in the rear of the C5.
The camera should also have an RCA plug, connect that to the HU 'rear camera' input, which should also be RCA.
The HU should have a bare wire (probably purple) that needs to be connected to the reverse lights. In C6 you can make that connection in the passenger footwell, but in C5 I'm 99% sure that needs to be done at the reverse lights (or possibly at the underhood fuse box, but since you're already running the video wire just use the lights). At the light the black wire is the ground, use the other one.
That will power your camera, and have the HU switch to that camera when you put the car in reverse (as long as the HU is properly set up to know the camera is there).
Does that make sense?
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You could get an automotive relay and use the trigger wire on the amp to pull in the relay coil, then connect the red amp wire to the N.O. relay contact and the output to the camera red wire.
Looking at this diagram, you'd connect red/B+ amp wire to 30, red camera wire to 87, amp trigger wire to 86, black/ground amp wire and black camera wire to 85.
