If this is a "plug & play" by using the four pin trailer wiring, how does it recognize when the vehicle is reverse ?
841851
You need to splice the "white" wire to your back-up light hot wire. Easy to do.
841852
The plug-and-play works for brake lights and turn signals only. There is a white hardwire reverse light hook up that you need to run it to your taillight if you want to have reverse lights work. This is not something that is plug-and-play.
723214
There is a seperate wire for the reserve. Very easy to install if there is two people doing it together.
841853
there is a white wire that is by it self that you connect to backup lite wire
841854
You splice the wire from your reverse light to the wire that is giving for the reverse lights on the bar
345233
if you hook the wire to the white tail light the camera will come on when in reverse. if you hook the wire to the ignition the camera will come on when the car starts.
2112788
When wired properly, anytime the vehicle is placed in reverse the camera comes on. Camera turns off once taken out of gear
1376996
It has a three way toggle switch & yes you have to wire it into your trailer connection.
2139673
If you connect the "Purple" to the yellow wire on the camera, and the red power wire on the camera to your reverse lights it should automatically turn the camera on and show video on your Pioneer screen when you put your vehicle in reverse.
2206030
This one should work. Then you need to know if your trailer is a 4 wire or 5 wire. 4 wire is the rear lights on the trailer are brake/run/turn. 5 wire is there are separate lights for turn, and then brake/run is on another light. Usually. 5 wire trailer has separate amber lights in the rear for turn signals.Depending on your trailer as mentioned, if it is a 5 wire, you just need this and you are good to go! If you have a 4 wire, then you will need the 5 to 4 wire converter.
1913032
Think of the electricity like flowing water. The electricity flows "in" from the vehicle and "out" towards the trailer. It only works in 1 direction.
1329042
yes it should switch on automatically . be sure to check your wiring and make sure your hook up to your reverse wire.
622700
Some of the people seem confused. Just to make sure you don't waste your money. If you have a 7 pin male connector on your vehicle and you want to convert it to a 4 pin male connector so you can hook up to your trailer that was changed to a 4 pin female connector then this will work for you.
1724421
If you can wire it into the back-up light, it will come on when you shift to reverse. If you hook the source wire to + 12V it can be switched on manually or be on all the time.
1346144
Do they make this in 4 pin. On/off/auto? Looking to mount reverse lights that come on with factory lights but also have the option to have them not come on in reverse and switch on when every I want as an aux. Or does anyone have the recomendation on how to add a wire to this harness to make that work? Ridgid makes a harness for this but its almost $60 bucks. I already have a 4 pin switch.
2112789
You wire into the reverse light wire so when you put it in reverse it gets powered up
264142
I had an rv place do the wiring. There's a pigtail with a plug that's hooked on car, I plug that into the plug on the trailer.Sorry, I don't know the technicalities of how to do it. It would vary from vehicle to vehicle anyway.
1780335
The LED Light should have three wires, white=common/ground/frame, the black, & red or the tail light & brake/turn signal. the black & red could be reversed. I mounted the light to the frame & connected the white/ground wire under the screw. Then I only had two wires to connect to the trailer wiring. Trailer wiring varies, some have green & yellow for turn/brake lights & brown or black for tail/running lights, white is common/ground. Hope this helps.
1856318
Actually I hooked mine up backwards and nothing happened. On the back of the box it says it has reverse protection, short circuit, reverse night current, overload, and overcharge/discharge protection.
936984
I wondered the same thing. Instructions are LAME and then some. The key is connect the Green wire to backup lights positive which has no power until you put vehicle into reverse. Green wire is the control. When you shift into reverse, power is sent to green wire to monitor and it turns on. When not in reverse, monitor is just OFF, no blue screen, just off. Also make sure camera ground back there is to the body metal ground and nothing else if you have a newer vehicles like 2012 sprinter van, computer did not like camera ground to license plate light wire neg, would disable camera somehow.
1588395
It has a wire that connects to the reverse light so that when the shifter hits reverse it sends the signal to turn on ,but you can wire it to any power and it will work