6 Volt Back Up Camera.

std1940

std1940

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Has any one installed a 6 volt back up camera on a 40 Ford or any other 6 volt car?
Looking for vendor to buy from and installation ideas.
Thanks Tom.
 
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Might be easier to install an auxiliary 12v battery and charge it ever so often. Probably would last whole season before it needed a recharge.
 
Yep. Something like that will work. A couple of years ago, my partner and I developed a fully isolated fully regulated 12 volt negative to 6 volt positive ground converter. It worked great, and I used to to power a backup camera and a bunch of other stuff in my '51 Ford. What we found out is that all of this new stuff is mainly plastic (so polarity doesn't matter if you connect it properly), and it is pretty resistance to dirty power and voltage spikes.

Beware though; backup cameras can be addictive. I stll have the one on my '51.
 
I'd prolly install a 6v 4-way flasher, a 6v center brake light, a 6v backup light, 2 side view mirrors, bendix brakes and assorted other accoutrements first, 8^)
 
I saw a back up camera installed for sale on eBay in a license plate topper, it was a standard 12v camera but the installation I thought was very clever. It used a Atlantic White & Flash license plate topper the one where there’s a red jewel in the center so in place of the jewel they fitted the small camera. The topper is large enough so it hid the wires pretty well.
 

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I think a 6V backup camera would be hard to find and expensive. On the other hand, 12V cameras are cheap and readily available from China via Aliexpress and Ebay. To get them to work on a 6V system you will need a step up boost converter to convert your 6V to 12V. These can be had from the same sources for less than $10. I just ordered one for my F1 for $5.58 including shipping but have installed them previously on my other antique vehicles so I'd have 12V outlets to power phones, cameras, etc.
 
fortyonerag said:
Try having a hunt for a USB powered camera. It's 5 volts, you might get away with that.

Alternatively, you can get 6V to 12v step up converters. They are fully isolated and can be used to drive 12V components, depending on power rating.

This one is advertised at 10A, but I would take that with a boulder of salt.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/311962628209?hash=item48a26bf071:g:pAkAAOSwC11Zv5bG
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It's not really a problem. I have quite a bit of time into this, and can tell you that the power requirements for these devices is usually in the milliamps range. We had a monitor built into our experimental power converter, and ran a GPS, a Backup Camera, and a small CD player on it. The total draw was slightly over one amp (and you know where most of that came from). Even polarity isolation on this stuff is not important, as the cases are made entirely of plastic, so you can mount them anywhere.

As to using USB, I don't know. With the step up converters you just correct the wires to the proper polarity on the output of the converter. On USB, the polarity is fixed in the connector, which may be a problem.
 
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