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I'm not sure how you are intending to mount the camera in the box - but I assume you still want to allow room to adjust the camera angle - i.e. it will not be flush with the hole you have made.
In which case have you tested it in the dark? I think there is a risk the infrared light will bounce back off the inside of the box and reduce the clarity of what you can see. I had this problem with a security camera at home.
PS I'm another one who had not realised (until you pointed it out) how ugly the camera is on the back of my van! Keen to see if your idea really works.
My objective was to make the cameras appear fitted at factory / built in as well as avoiding having to drill a hole or screw them to the van.... They have been made adjustable....
My intention is to fit them above the rear top brake light (that is slightly raised) using a good 3 m doublesided tape and then sealing the edge with a white silicon and running the thin white single wire 2 inch over the top of the van, under the solar panels and entering the van via the solar wire entrance....
I should add i ve mounted it on the wall inside as its raining and have had the cameras up and running to test the line of vision of both and its perfect......
The best idea I saw was the camera mounted inside a large round plastic spray can lid.
Kept it weather proof and stopped spray from beneath as well.
I mounted my two r/v cams on the top of the bike rack by adding an extra spar to save drilling umpteen holes in the bodywork. The connecting lead I channelled through the same hole as the high level brake light supply cable, just had to ream it out a bit, then seal it with sikaflex. All bits bought from B&Q.
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I've thought about this a lot - not because I don't like the look of our camera, but because Spatz's idea could be brilliant at keeping most of the mucky spray off the lenses when it's hissing down!
As far as I can see though, any sort of cover would make it almost impossible to clean the lenses without clambering up and firtling around with a cloth. (No cover is ever going to keep all the muck and spray off!)
At the moment I can clean ours easily with my sponge-on-a-stick.
Any thoughts Spatz - now you have the Mk17 model working!
No screws or wires through the back, just double sided tape , a sealent for sides and one wire over the top and into the hab via solar panel entry already there
I'am new to motorhoming and that probably shows in my past posts on this subject,but like several other posters on this subject a camera is there to do one job.My insurance company made it a requirement to fit one so after looking around I figured out the best option for me was a combined satnav/camera as I didn't want 2 screens on the dash,hence where I think I got a bargain as the satnav alone is £575 and a camera is another £200+ plus fitting £75.As I said I'm new at this and have read the comments about these fleabay systems and their reliability,personally I never buy cheap quality as it is false economy and never lasts.Cameras that are enclosed in a housing do look better but as Zebedee states the lens still gets dirty,so unless you design a bigger box and add a wiper mechanism,but then again that's going to look ugly as well.
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