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08-25-2015, 08:09 PM
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Best teacher is hands on!
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08-25-2015, 08:16 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by karrun
Praise the lord and pass the gravy! Found the second bad fuse! The little bugger was hiding in the second under hood panel with no labels for it. Found a website where an expert suggested checking this fuse. Changed it and I am good to go.
I really appreciate everyone's help on this. Now do I just leave well enough alone or do I take a shot at the backup camera again? Just kidding. We leave Friday for camping, not going to take a chance at messing things up until camping season is over in a couple of months.
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Good choice on waiting. Camping is more fun than fuse searching.
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08-25-2015, 08:17 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by karrun
Praise the lord and pass the gravy! Found the second bad fuse! The little bugger was hiding in the second under hood panel with no labels for it. Found a website where an expert suggested checking this fuse. Changed it and I am good to go.
I really appreciate everyone's help on this. Now do I just leave well enough alone or do I take a shot at the backup camera again? Just kidding. We leave Friday for camping, not going to take a chance at messing things up until camping season is over in a couple of months.
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Glad you got it working before your trip. I am impressed by your willingness to jump in and try mods like this This would have been on my wife's honeydew list.
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08-25-2015, 08:27 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by karrun
Praise the lord and pass the gravy! Found the second bad fuse! The little bugger was hiding in the second under hood panel with no labels for it. Found a website where an expert suggested checking this fuse. Changed it and I am good to go.
I really appreciate everyone's help on this. Now do I just leave well enough alone or do I take a shot at the backup camera again? Just kidding. We leave Friday for camping, not going to take a chance at messing things up until camping season is over in a couple of months.
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Outstanding!!! Glad it worked out for you!!
Gosh I hate electrical problems!!
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08-25-2015, 08:37 PM
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Back up camera
For future reference. In checking the #& (Back-up lights) The TV would have to have the key on and the transmission shifted to Reverse to make the circuit hot when you checked from the # 7 pin to the bumper or a ground.
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08-26-2015, 08:45 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by alayton
For future reference. In checking the #& (Back-up lights) The TV would have to have the key on and the transmission shifted to Reverse to make the circuit hot when you checked from the # 7 pin to the bumper or a ground.
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Thanks. I checked the #3 and ground pin with my voltmeter. Those should be hot with the key to "on" and the Durango lights on, correct?
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08-26-2015, 08:56 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by kho6658
I am impressed by your willingness to jump in and try mods like this
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08-26-2015, 09:39 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by uhduh camping
We had same type issue with a Wildcat. Turns out that there was an inline fuse hidden behind a panel where the battery disconnect is located. We would have never found it, but a quick call to Forest River helped solve the mystery. There were three or four other fuses back there, but there is no documentation or labels nothing to indicate their existence.
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X2 (and Shame on FR for designing this "feature.")
The other fuses control the Slides--I know from personal experience
We blew one of those fuses when I attempted to bring 2 slides in simultaneously and it took us forever to find the fuses, but they are there - just remove the battery cover and you will see them hiding in line on the wiring harness to the battery.
Why FR did not simply add these fuses to the main breaker panel is beyond me!
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08-26-2015, 01:20 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by karrun
Thanks. I checked the #3 and ground pin with my voltmeter. Those should be hot with the key to "on" and the Durango lights on, correct?
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But it is the #7 pin that is for your back up camera.
the switch has to be on AND the TV put in reverse for it to be hot.
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08-27-2015, 08:44 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by alayton
But it is the #7 pin that is for your back up camera.
the switch has to be on AND the TV put in reverse for it to be hot.
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But there are no reverse lights on my Roo, only running lights. So I was going to hook it up to the running light.
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08-27-2015, 09:06 AM
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As long as you have to run a wire for the "hard wired" backup camera, why not run a second for camera power ( only need one conductor for power side) . Open the junction box ( mounted to tongue) and connect it to the wire ( from trailer plug) that is normally used for backup lights. This also allows you to add backup lights should you ever decide to do so. Much cleaner and straight forward approach.
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08-27-2015, 02:03 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Flybob
As long as you have to run a wire for the "hard wired" backup camera, why not run a second for camera power ( only need one conductor for power side) . Open the junction box ( mounted to tongue) and connect it to the wire ( from trailer plug) that is normally used for backup lights. This also allows you to add backup lights should you ever decide to do so. Much cleaner and straight forward approach.
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Ditto what Flyboy said, and if you look at the 7 pin wiring diagram, the center pin is for Aux. This is the pin for Back up lights.
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08-27-2015, 02:14 PM
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So if I am understanding what Flybob and Scotty are saying, don't attached the bare terminated red wire from the camera to the rear running light, but rather add an extension and run them forward with the video wire to the wire from the trailer plug? Or do I have this totally wrong?
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08-27-2015, 02:30 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by alayton
But it is the #7 pin that is for your back up camera.
the switch has to be on AND the TV put in reverse for it to be hot.
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I can't speak for others, but I don't want my trailer's back-up camera to be powered only when my TV transmission is in reverse (back-up lights on). I want my back-up camera on all the time the trailer is on/hot. I can take my back-up camera monitor inside my trailer and watch (and hear) what's going on behind my trailer even with the TV unhooked.
Now, I DO need to know which circuit/pin is hot in reverse in case I ever want to add back-up lights to my trailer as 1l243 documented in http://www.forestriverforums.com/forums/f44/added-back-up-lights-76205.html.
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08-27-2015, 04:45 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by karrun
It's a 2004 Durango. I do have a voltmeter. How do I check the 7 pin plug? I am a bit of a dolt when it comes to electrical, in case you can't tell.
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BTDT. I did it in my 2005 Durango. I can't recall exactly which fuse was blown but it's in the fuse block under the hood. It wasn't obvious. Keep looking.
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08-27-2015, 04:49 PM
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Hook your back up camera to the clearance lights, that way it is on all the time you are going down the road and backing into wherever. Simple no extra wiring.
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08-28-2015, 07:28 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by karrun
So if I am understanding what Flybob and Scotty are saying, don't attached the bare terminated red wire from the camera to the rear running light, but rather add an extension and run them forward with the video wire to the wire from the trailer plug? Or do I have this totally wrong?
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Depends on if when you want the camera on. If you just want it for backing up, then connect as I mentioned previously.
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