installing wired back up camera in 1998 Winnebago Spirit

[skybar]

im trying to install a back up camera. its mounted over the license plate and is supposed to be wired to the back up light. i know not much about wiring. i do not know which wire to connect it to. there is a black and red wire connected to the camera and a black one that runs through the camper to the display. any help is appreciated!

 

[Morich]

The big mysteries we find when we get an RV that somebody else may have changed a few things!
I failed to spot any backup camera info on the Winnebago drawings. that may/may not be a big clue, but it does seems to show the camera was added at some point. Second clue seems to be that original wiring added by Winn is expected to have wire codes stamped on the wire to et us ID them.
when and how sure we can be is a bit of the mystery!

So we have to try to figure what is there and what you need to do to get them to match a new camera.
I fully admit that I'm not a video guy at all. That would make me want to take the RV to a video shop who installs cameras.

But maybe we can get some info dug out?
About the only wire I can ID is the white one. Since it goes to a bare metal plate, that makes it a ground wire!
Do you have drawings/instructions for the new camera and does it need four wires like the old one?
If I were doing this, I would first try to get info on the existing camera if there are labels on it. Then try to match the old and new wiring. Not the best way to go!

But there may be far better trained folks come along shortly with much better info than what I suggest.

 

[skybar]

The big mysteries we find when we get an RV that somebody else may have changed a few things!
I failed to spot any backup camera info on the Winnebago drawings. that may/may not be a big clue, but it does seems to show the camera was added at some point. Second clue seems to be that original wiring added by Winn is expected to have wire codes stamped on the wire to et us ID them.
when and how sure we can be is a bit of the mystery!

So we have to try to figure what is there and what you need to do to get them to match a new camera.
I fully admit that I'm not a video guy at all. That would make me want to take the RV to a video shop who installs cameras.

But maybe we can get some info dug out?
About the only wire I can ID is the white one. Since it goes to a bare metal plate, that makes it a ground wire!
Do you have drawings/instructions for the new camera and does it need four wires like the old one?
If I were doing this, I would first try to get info on the existing camera if there are labels on it. Then try to match the old and new wiring. Not the best way to go!

But there may be far better trained folks come along shortly with much better info than what I suggest.

I'm sorry i wasn't clear. It did not come with a back up camera. I bought one. My plan was to mount it over the license plate. I tried to find the info that came with the camera but of course its lost (along with my mind!) But from all the videos i've watched it looks like i wire the camera to the back up light so that it only comes on in reverse. Again I don't know much about wiring and splicing wires together etc. let me check and take a better picture to see what is printed on the wires

 

[Morich]

I see a different picture now!
I thought I was seeing an old camera of some sort. Now I think I see the taillight and turn signal fixture laying face down.
And that brings up some big questions that depend on what type camera you have. they come in what we normally called wired that use a cable called coax that is like what TV uses to pass the signal from back to front for the screen.
Then there are wireless cameras which use a form of "radio" to send that signal to the front.
If this is the taillight fixture, I don't think there will be a coax put in to the front for the screen. That is going to make it hard to add a wired camera in this place as the coax is not there and getting one from the back all the way to the front in a way that it would last long is very tricky!