{"id":5092,"date":"2018-05-22T07:20:12","date_gmt":"2018-05-22T14:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/?p=5092"},"modified":"2018-11-03T13:35:32","modified_gmt":"2018-11-03T20:35:32","slug":"how-to-add-a-backup-camper-to-a-2012-ford-f-250-truck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/how-to-add-a-backup-camper-to-a-2012-ford-f-250-truck\/","title":{"rendered":"How To: Add a Backup Camera to a 2012 Ford F-250 Truck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"top\" \/>I recently got a used Lance truck camper to be put on my 2012 F250 long bed truck. The F-250 has it\u2019s backup camera in the tailgate and puts the display inside the mirror. The camper I bought had a regular NTSC camera attached to it, and four random wires hanging off the edge. I wanted to get it to work with my truck\u2019s stock rear view mirror display. Here is how to do it, and below are things I discovered that made it take a long time. You could use this same techniques with any off the shelf security camera (or backup camera). For Ford trucks, make sure it is an NTSC camera, and\u00a0<strong>not\u00a0<\/strong>PAL.<\/p>\n<p>First, buy a cord to adapt to the camera from the rear truck attachment. Here\u2019s the cord I used; I have a 2012 F250, but the plug is the same for this year and this is cheaper:<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;OneJS=1&amp;Operation=GetAdHtml&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;source=ss&amp;ref=as_ss_li_til&amp;ad_type=product_link&amp;tracking_id=corbstree-20&amp;marketplace=amazon&amp;region=US&amp;placement=B015P1MTI4&amp;asins=B015P1MTI4&amp;linkId=835f077426655770de73bc17a8cb31c4&amp;show_border=true&amp;link_opens_in_new_window=true\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I cut off the end that would normally plug into the tailgate camera. You could also find the plug itself and wire it up manually, but that would take more time.<\/p>\n<p>The wiring from the cord is as follows:<\/p>\n<p>Pin 1 is Violet with Gray strip and is +12 volts<br \/>\nPin 2 is White with Green strip and is Video +<br \/>\nPin 3 is Brown with Violet strip and is Video &#8211;<br \/>\nPin 4 is Black and is a ground shield for Video. This is Not power ground and should not be used for Power Ground. (May not be used!)<br \/>\nPin 5 is Black on Male connector and Black with White stripe on Female connector and is Power Ground.<br \/>\nPin 6 is not used.<\/p>\n<p>I found this via: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ford-trucks.com\/forums\/1176260-backup-camera-wiring.html\">https:\/\/www.ford-trucks.com\/forums\/1176260-backup-camera-wiring.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you are using the cord I recommended above, note that\u00a0<strong>the black power ground\u00a0<\/strong>does\u00a0<strong>not\u00a0<\/strong>go through the cord! It is terminated on both ends, and it took me hours to realize they did this.<\/p>\n<p>Take the positive 12 volts and power ground, and wire it to your camera. Take the Video+ and wire it to the center pin of a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Composite_video\">composite video input<\/a>. Take the Video- and wire it to the ground of the composite video (the outer edge). If your composite video also has a shield, you can wire the \u201cground shield\u201d line to this, otherwise it isn\u2019t used. That is it!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Troubleshooting:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It took me a while to realize that the cord I bought didn\u2019t have the power ground going all the way through. I finally used an Ohm meter to realize it was an open circuit and after I removed some wrappings I discovered it was terminated on both ends! How stupid\u2026this wasted hours of my time.<\/p>\n<p>The second problem I had was that the component video cable that was wired in my truck was faulty. I had to replace it. I would get a signal when I plugged directly into the camera, but not after I ran it through the line that exited the camper shell. I replaced it and it all worked! (This also took me hours to figure out&#8230;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently got a used Lance truck camper to be put on my 2012 F250 long bed truck. The F-250 has it\u2019s backup camera in the tailgate and puts the display inside the mirror. The&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/how-to-add-a-backup-camper-to-a-2012-ford-f-250-truck\/\">[read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[82,109],"class_list":["post-5092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-diy","tag-howto"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5092"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5254,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5092\/revisions\/5254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}