rear view camera hook up?

[John Borax]

I am installing a rear view camera in place of my top center clearance light on my 5th wheel.
By using the wires fromn the clearance light how do I hook up my camera.
There are 2 wires on the camera red and black. One for 12 v and one for the ground.
There are 2 wires (black) to the clearance light.
Do I pigtail the 2 black clearance light to the hot camera wire and ground the camera wire to the frame or connect each of the camera wires tro each of the clearance light wires?

[Conquest102]

The first thing you need to do is get a volt meter and find out if they are negative ground or if they are pos & neg. Don't hook anything up till you know this or you could damage the camera.

[John Borax]

Problem solved re backup camera

[John Borax]

Thanks for help.

[Conquest102]

So which way was it?

[hokieokie]

Seems to me that if you use the clearance light wires to power the camera that you'd need to have the lights on when you want to use the camera.

[John Borax]

That's correct.
I usually travel with my clearance lights on.

[Conquest102]

I just got my new camera today I plan on hooking mine up to the reverse lights. The magellan GPS has a video in and when it senses power it will switch to the camera.
Now I just need to run 40-50 feet of wire