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#41 ·
I'm hopefully getting a 58 plate Nav next week and have been looking at reverse camera options, can you explain a little more exactly how the sot lead option could be done (I'm no electronic whizz so soldering is a no go really, but I can tweak lead and unplug and plug in) I think if I tried soldiering the cd/DVD and screen it would be useless once I was done!!

Ben
 
#43 ·
this method works perfect,just done my o7 nav,mounted cam under handle on bootlid,downside is you need to drill hole in rear hatch for the cables to run
thanks all
 
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Bearpark said:
I'm hopefully getting a 58 plate Nav next week and have been looking at reverse camera options, can you explain a little more exactly how the sot lead option could be done (I'm no electronic whizz so soldering is a no go really, but I can tweak lead and unplug and plug in) I think if I tried soldiering the cd/DVD and screen it would be useless once I was done!!

Ben
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If you dissect out the sockets from a SOT lead without damaging them (ie file away the plastic casing), these can then be pushed into your navara plug sockets for the screen and DVD driver under the seat. This means no soldering. On the plastic plugs, you notice that only a few of them actually have wires coming out - the pins required for this mod do not have any, hence you need to create them yourself, either by solder directly onto the panel, or as I suggest, adding the wire in the socket yourself.
You will need to identifiy the correct hole in the plug of course - easy, but will require studying the diagram above and maybe taking the unit apart (then you can report back for others) Sorry, I didnt think to write it down at the time as I was soldering and only came up with this idea after looking at a SOT lead.

Hope that makes sense!

Well done for everyone else who has done it.
 
#45 ·
Hi, can someone help, Im a little confused, the terms. 1 & 67 that need linking, do they stay in the plug and are just linked or do they need removing from the plug and linking? I won't bother links terms. 5 & 65 as I only want it to come on when in reverse, and I get the video input on the screen that's fine

Any help would be great

Thanks

Andy
 
#47 ·
hello again,i found the pictures handy ,,think it was this thread? sorry if not

i have found sumtimes if i have just started the motor then shifted to reverse the picture is in black and white
but take it out of reverse then back in the picture comes up in colour,,only on occassion does this happen but its annoying me

any ideas or cheap camera at fault?
thanks all
 
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#48 ·
TSEJ said:
Bearpark said:
I'm hopefully getting a 58 plate Nav next week and have been looking at reverse camera options, can you explain a little more exactly how the sot lead option could be done (I'm no electronic whizz so soldering is a no go really, but I can tweak lead and unplug and plug in) I think if I tried soldiering the cd/DVD and screen it would be useless once I was done!!

Ben
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If you dissect out the sockets from a SOT lead without damaging them (ie file away the plastic casing), these can then be pushed into your navara plug sockets for the screen and DVD driver under the seat. This means no soldering. On the plastic plugs, you notice that only a few of them actually have wires coming out - the pins required for this mod do not have any, hence you need to create them yourself, either by solder directly onto the panel, or as I suggest, adding the wire in the socket yourself.
You will need to identifiy the correct hole in the plug of course - easy, but will require studying the diagram above and maybe taking the unit apart (then you can report back for others) Sorry, I didnt think to write it down at the time as I was soldering and only came up with this idea after looking at a SOT lead.

Hope that makes sense!

Well done for everyone else who has done it.
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Sorry to dig this up again :oops:

but can any one point me in the direction of a sot lead that will plug into the DVD drive and screen or crimp sockets that will fit into the original plastic socket.

Thanks. :thumbleft:
 
#51 ·
I've just done this and it also works well. To work around the soldering issue (opened the box and had a look; those pins are small and my eyesights not that good and my hands shake) so tried the pin option as others have mentioned. I bought a cheap male-female VGA lead from a computer shop and the pins in the female plug are the right size, if you carefully disect the female plug the wires are aleady soldered to the pins. The pins then just push into the plugs on the nav unit and display.
 
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Copley3009 said:
Thanks i did search but couldn't find any brands/ names
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ok sorry then, but what about my link :scratch:
 
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#57 ·
Digging up an oldie again, can some one direct me to an SOT lead or something similar that contains the right size pins, I could solder but this is less work, the old connectors i have lying around have pins that are to big!
 
#58 ·
digga_hole said:
Digging up an oldie again, can some one direct me to an SOT lead or something similar that contains the right size pins, I could solder but this is less work, the old connectors i have lying around have pins that are to big!
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Couldn't find a SOT lead myself to fit so did this: see previous post. VGA lead cost £3.95 and used it for display and DVDb unit under seat.
I've just done this and it also works well. To work around the soldering issue (opened the box and had a look; those pins are small and my eyesights not that good and my hands shake) so tried the pin option as others have mentioned. I bought a cheap male-female VGA lead from a computer shop and the pins in the female plug are the right size, if you carefully disect the female plug the wires are aleady soldered to the pins. The pins then just push into the plugs on the nav unit and display. :thumbleft:

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#60 ·
digga_hole said:
http://www.aliexpress.com/compare/compare-vga-monitor-splitter.html
is that summit like that yeah?
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That's the kind of thing, normally male on one end female the other. It's the female end you want, carefully hacksaw through the metal shroud and the pins are in a plastic insulator. Gently pull them out of the insulator and strip the cable back to show the individual wires, cut to length. The unit under the seat has to be shorted one pin to another, join two of the wires by soldering together. locate the correct pins in the plug, no need to remove the unit as you can get good access by moving the seat forward and push the female pins onto the pins in the plug, if correctly connected you'll get a message in the display unit " check behind before reversing" or something similar. On the display end I soldered two more of the female pins to the video plug which will eventually connect to the lead from the camera. If you can identify which pins in the plug of the display correctly (I did this with a small mirror) just push the female pins home in the plug. If you can do this then no need to remove display screen either. Ebay sell the leads for about £2 just search "male to female vga extension"
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/VGA-SVGA-...able-1M-1-5M-2M-3M-/330829227113?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&var=&hash=item4d06f56469

Good-luck :fingersx
 
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