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Rear View Camera

Yahoo Message Number: 22139
To Bring up an old subject. My picture kept fading in and out, so last fall I secured the camera connection and all was well for some time. Then this spring it acted up again. Today I pulled the dash cover and wonder of wonders. Pioneer is using RCA pin connectors for the video input.
A bad choice when your TV and vcr are at home at rest, but really an stupid choice if your Camera and display move. Now about 20 years ago Monster Cable came out with RCA type with a split pin so when inserted into the female it would compress and put tenstion on the female tube. They also plated the connectors with gold and serrated the flandge part of the male connector so it would score the female . I just cut the cheap chrome plated connectors off and striped and soldered the connections. You can always tell a misfitted pair of Rca connectors, 1) if there is any play while inserting the pin or 2) if you can freely rotate the two connectors once fully united. I put my first hi-fi together in 58, and full fledged stereo in 62. They were a problem then!! Is anyone old enough to remember when RCA first developed the connector? (clue before WWII)
TWI 2004 Intrigue 11731

Re: Rear View Camera

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Yahoo Message Number: 22149
My camera picture "weakens" about once a year and I have made it good again each time by removing the access panel in the rear closet and pulling the cable "connector" apart and then putting it back together. . . and like magic it works again for another 10-12 months. Not very scientific but three times now in four years and all is well.

That's what happens to mine.

Allen and Virginia full time 4.5 years 36'Allure "01 30694

Quote from: TWI
To Bring up an old subject. My picture kept fading in and out, so
last fall I secured the camera connection and all was well for some time. Then this spring it acted up again. Today I pulled the dash cover and wonder of wonders. Pioneer is using RCA pin connectors for the video input.

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A bad choice when your TV and vcr are at home at rest, but really
an stupid choice if your Camera and display move. Now about 20 years ago Monster Cable came out with RCA type with a split pin so when inserted into the female it would compress and put tenstion on the female tube. They also plated the connectors with gold and serrated the flandge part of the male connector so it would score the female . I just cut the cheap chrome plated connectors off and striped and soldered the connections. You can always tell a misfitted pair of Rca connectors, 1) if there is any play while inserting the pin or 2) if you can freely rotate the two connectors once fully united. I put my first hi-fi together in 58, and full fledged stereo in 62. They were a problem then!! Is anyone old enough to remember when RCA first developed the connector? (clue before WWII)
TWI 2004 Intrigue 11731

Re: Rear View Camera

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Yahoo Message Number: 22446
We just bought our first RV (a used 2000 CC Magna) We noticed that the color rear view camera is dim. Provides an image that is marginally useful during the day, but pretty useless at dawn, dusk, or overcast days. And can barely register headlights of cars at night.

Is this normal? or are we suffering from the kind of "weaknesses" you folk are talking about?... Maybe I need to go out and jiggle the RCA connectors?...

(yes, I too built my first HiFi in 1955 and repaired my first TV in 58... and amazed at the longevity of some of the standards from that era in contrast to the short half-lives of modern standars (like 8- track...lol)

Thanks for any advice...
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Quote from: Allen Gayken
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My camera picture "weakens" about once a year and I have made it > good again each time by removing the access panel in the rear

closet

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and pulling the cable "connector" apart and then putting it back > together. . . and like magic it works again for another 10-12 > months. Not very scientific but three times now in four years and > all is well.

That's what happens to mine.

Allen and Virginia full time 4.5 years > 36'Allure "01 30694

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> To Bring up an old subject. My picture kept fading in and out,

so

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last fall I secured the camera connection and all was well for

some

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time. Then this spring it acted up again. Today I pulled the dash > cover and wonder of wonders. Pioneer is using RCA pin connectors

for

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the video input.

> A bad choice when your TV and vcr are at home at rest, but

really

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an stupid choice if your Camera and display move. Now about 20

years

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ago Monster Cable came out with RCA type with a split pin so when > inserted into the female it would compress and put tenstion on the > female tube. They also plated the connectors with gold and

serrated

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the flandge part of the male connector so it would score the > female . I just cut the cheap chrome plated connectors off and > striped and soldered the connections. You can always tell a > misfitted pair of Rca connectors, 1) if there is any play while > inserting the pin or 2) if you can freely rotate the two

connectors

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Yahoo Message Number: 22457
Re: [Country-Coach-Owners] Re: Rear View CameraI can't say ours dims, but more like the aperture opens up all the way and lets too much light in. We've been told various stories from "that's just the way they work" to "it's the heat","wrong light" etc. I raised a fuss today while here at CC so along with finishing up the work, they said they would look for a short. But after reading the post on the connectors, that may be the problem. I'll have them check it out.
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Sue

'05-42' Allure #31254