Reverse camera - screen either blinking or dead

bochas · 28th September 2016, 17:31

My setup is navall 2, a wireless transmitter from Sean and some generic camera. Installed it a cpl of days ago, it seemed to work at the beginning while stationary; put in reverse, rear view shows, disengage reverse, all back to normal.

The problems started when I moved the car (it may also be that I didn`t notice before, because I only spent a cpl of minutes looking at it). The screen started blinking constantly, as if it was about to go into the rear view mode (black screen, top bar visible with "home" and "back" icons). It did that in frequent, unspecified intervals and it always lasted a fraction of a second, so that nothing except for what I described above showed on the screen.
The wires I connected for this, call it setup #1, were as follows:
- boot: (all connections to the right rear lamp plug) gnd to black, + to a side brown/green (don`t remember the color exactly now, but it`s the + from the reverse light)
- dash: yellow rca from the camera to "cam in" from the unit (the "audio loom"), gnd to gnd (black) in the unit's "power loom", + to + (red) in the unit's "power loom", blue from the transmitter to orange (not pink as others suggest - in my loom pink has a "brake" tag, and orange has a "reverse" tag).

I thought that the reason is that the camera is getting constant power from the unit's "power loom", so I changed the below (let`s call that setup #2):
- boot: stays the same
- dash: gnd (black) from the transmitter to gnd (black) from the unit's "audio loom", + (red) from the transmitter to "cam in" (red) from the "audio loom". the rest stayed as it was. Now, for this setup, there`s no visuals at all. I checked later, and the "cam in" (red) wire doesn`t supply any power (checked that with a screwdriver-like tester).

Anybody any ideas? Thx.

28th September 2016, 17:31	#1
bochas Newbie r75 Join Date: May 2015 Location: gdynia Posts: 23 Thanks: 3 Thanked 3 Times in 3 Posts	Reverse camera - screen either blinking or dead My setup is navall 2, a wireless transmitter from Sean and some generic camera. Installed it a cpl of days ago, it seemed to work at the beginning while stationary; put in reverse, rear view shows, disengage reverse, all back to normal. The problems started when I moved the car (it may also be that I didn`t notice before, because I only spent a cpl of minutes looking at it). The screen started blinking constantly, as if it was about to go into the rear view mode (black screen, top bar visible with "home" and "back" icons). It did that in frequent, unspecified intervals and it always lasted a fraction of a second, so that nothing except for what I described above showed on the screen. The wires I connected for this, call it setup #1, were as follows: - boot: (all connections to the right rear lamp plug) gnd to black, + to a side brown/green (don`t remember the color exactly now, but it`s the + from the reverse light) - dash: yellow rca from the camera to "cam in" from the unit (the "audio loom"), gnd to gnd (black) in the unit's "power loom", + to + (red) in the unit's "power loom", blue from the transmitter to orange (not pink as others suggest - in my loom pink has a "brake" tag, and orange has a "reverse" tag). I thought that the reason is that the camera is getting constant power from the unit's "power loom", so I changed the below (let`s call that setup #2): - boot: stays the same - dash: gnd (black) from the transmitter to gnd (black) from the unit's "audio loom", + (red) from the transmitter to "cam in" (red) from the "audio loom". the rest stayed as it was. Now, for this setup, there`s no visuals at all. I checked later, and the "cam in" (red) wire doesn`t supply any power (checked that with a screwdriver-like tester). Anybody any ideas? Thx.