Best aftermarket backup camera for pickup truck install#
I’m looking for a camera that can be one where I can show up to my job site, quickly install the rear view camera, and go about my day. I recently got a job where I would be driving a different box truck for each day of work, usually 16 feet long, throughout the city and sometimes I won’t be having someone there to help watch my blind spots for me so I think getting a camera would be necessary.
What a great article about the almost overwhelming world of rear view cameras. So for your situation, you want to look at mounting a quality wireless backup camera up high on your trailer, or go with a wired version (which is a lot more time consuming and potentially difficult to install). Not a temporary one like the iBall would be. The key is to mount it up high so that the signal doesn’t have to ‘shoot through’ the aluminum rig. For example, Airstream installs wireless backup cameras on their travel trailers. However, there are wireless units that perform just fine.Īnd you can use a wireless camera on an aluminum trailer. This is assuming there was a place to mount it, which apparently there isn’t.Īs far as a wireless camera being a poor option, that is true if you purchase a system that suffers from delay and distortion. The low mounting position means the wireless signal would have to penetrate a lot of metal (aluminum) and it’s not going to be happy doing that. It is primarily a hitch camera, to be used on your tow vehicle (that doesn’t have its own backup camera) while hitching up to a trailer.īecause of the aluminum construction of your trailer, it isn’t a candidate for mounting the iBall on the rear.
While the iBall could definitely be used by temporarily mounting it to the rear of a trailer while backing up, that isn’t its primary purpose.
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