Product Description
The PLCM18BC is a rear-view backup camera that easily mounts to your vehicle's license plate cover. Paired with an in-vehicle monitor, it's a great way to increase the safety and security of your vehicle. This powerful camera is equipped with true color reproduction, a resolution of 420 TV lines. It works in all weather conditions and at night, thanks to IP67-compliant weatherproofing, built-in fog resistance, and excellent low lux performance. This camera even has the ability to project distance scale lines onto the monitored image - so you can tell how far away nearby objects are. And it's finished in a unique zinc black chrome, a dark color that fits well with many cars' exteriors. 17 foot male-to-male RCA cable included.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #1338 in Car Audio or Theater
- Brand: Pyle
- Model: PLCM18BC
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 1.75" h x 10.25" w x 3.25" l, .81 pounds
Features
- 420 TVL Horizontal Resolution - Resolution: 420 TV Lines - Video Output: 1.0V PP-75 Ohm
- Distance Scale Line - Viewing Angle: 170 Degree - Power Supply: DC 12V 200mA
- True COlor Reproduction - Auto White Balance - 17 Foot male to male RCA Video Cable
- Low Lux Performance of 0.2 LUX Night Vision - Waterproof (Ip67), Fog Resistant - Dimension: 10''W x 1.3''H x 1.26''D
- Toral Pixels: 656 x 492 - Low Lighting Capable
Most helpful customer reviews
60 of 62 people found the following review helpful.
The Red Wire
By Christy Boehringer
Good Camera. Now, Pyle adds this red wire, and no where in the simple directions they give you do they tell you what to do with the red wire that is connected to the Composite Video Cable. Of course you read the reviews, half the buyers don't know what it is for, half the buyers say they figured it out. However nobody tells you what to do with the red wire. So for everybody that buys this unit, here is what you do with the red wire. First you will have a power supply, this has a black stripped wire, and a red stripped wire. Run these wires to your back up light. Red is positive, Black is the neutral. Connect the red to the positive wire on your back up light, Connect the Black to the negative wire on your back up light. When you run the composite video cable with the red wire, one end goes to your head unit. There should be a wire on your head unit that says "To Reverse Light" or something similar. Connect the one end of the red wire to this wire. Now here is the kicker, the piece of information that is missing everywhere. At the Camera, you will connect the other end of the video wire to the camera. What you will have left is the red wire hanging out of the video connector. Get yourself some extra wire, connect the extra wire to the red wire hanging off the cable, run this extra wire back up to your reverse light, connect the red wire to the positive wire of the reverse light. Now, when your stereo is on, and your car is running, when you shift the car into reverse, power will go to the camera and turn the camera on, a signal from the reverse light will be sent back up to your head unit, basically telling your head unit the camera is on and you are in reverse, the head unit will immediately switch to back up camera mode, whammy, you now have reverse back up video, as soon as you put the car into drive or any other gear, the camera will shut off, send a signal to the head unit telling it power is off, and your head unit will switch back automatically to your tuner, or whatever you have it setup to do. Pyle does not send enough wire, you will probably need to get an extension video cable from Best Buy, Radio Shack, or on here at Amazon. In addition, buy extra wire to extend the Red Wire up to your back up light. You may just want to tie both red wires in at the same time to your back up light. You will probably need to extend the red wire up to the head unit if you had to put on an extension video wire because the little red wires connected to the video wire that comes in the box are only about 4" long on each end. I hope this finally answers all the questions as to what to do with the red wire.
19 of 20 people found the following review helpful.
Great product....not intuitive
By Bonkers for Leilah
Okay. This product is just as advertised and once installed properly, is on point. Now, my unit did not come with directions for installation but I figured I would pretend Google didnt exist and went at it. First there are two cables with this unit, one is a video male to male connector (for hooking up to display unit, stereo, tv, or projector if you are really odd) and another one that plugs into the power jack on camera and then has a naked end with positive and negative wires (exposed). I found the reverse light wires running to reverse lights and spliced the red and black to the positive and negative leads to reverse light, which gives the camera power only when the reverse lights are on (when in reverse obviously) I then ran the video cable to head unit and hooked up and every thing was great. The one thing i did not figure out, was a small thin red wire that was exposed at both ends of the video cable. I am not sure if that is something to hook up to the monitor or head unit that makes it automatically switch to the camera feed once vehicle is put into reverse. But the camera works fine as is, and I did not want to resort to google as I mentioned earlier. Oh and the hardest part if you have a tailgate or hatchback is running the wires from the camera THRU some orifice (I used the place where my license plate lights are) to get it into the cabin of car to run video cable thru car to head unit or monitor.
Okay all of that being said. It was not that hard to install once I worked out the obvious and the quality of the image is very very very clear and the adjustable camera angle is easy to work out and my wife likes the three color (red yellow green) back up scale lines imposed on the image. Good stuff.
14 of 16 people found the following review helpful.
Don't even consider Koolertron
By Brian C.
I have to admit that I wasn't thrilled to spend nearly $40 on another backup camera after previously purchasing the Koolertron one for only $20. The Koolertron lasted about 6 months and died, perhaps from water inside, perhaps from being on all the time, who knows. All I know is it worked ok but the colors were way off. I had high hopes for this camera and it does not disappoint. The colors are almost exact, it does have the distance grid (which I do like in conjunction with my Excursion's backup sensors), and the night view is very good (and I have smoked tail lights so my backup lights aren't even as bright as a normal car). This is also made from metal and is much more low profile and stylish than the Koolertron which is plastic. Haven't done a car wash yet and I did change the wiring so that it's only on when I'm in reverse now, hoping to extend it's life. Crossing my fingers this one lasts more than 6 months...
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