Furrion Camera

[Chainsaw]

I just bought the Furrion vision camera. had a devil of a time installing the plug and play until I found out that the pug in for the camera was wired wrong at the factory. Once I solved that it worked right off as long as the trailer was stationary.

It worked good in s straight line but when I turned it went black then came back on when the rig was straight. I had the rV parked in the driveway to load over night. Next day, camera would not come back on.

I went to the manufacture website support, did the chat thing, they were of no use at all. Was told a specialist would look into it and the that person would email me a copy of the chat. That was tuesday today is thursday, have not received the copy of the chat nor a call from the specialist. It seems to me they know they have a dud system that may or may not work.

I will be home on Monday, will be returning the system.I have seen too many posts from people who have the same camera and it does not function as advertised. I know some are working, mine is not.
If anyone has the magic please share.

 

[jmarnell]

Re: Furrow Camera

Unfortunately don't have any magic for you. But one time shortly after I installed the Furrion Vision S system we started out on a trip and I lost the signal from the rear camera and it wouldn't come back on. I pulled the power on the monitor in the truck to reboot it, but still no signal. At the next rest stop, I cut the power to the camera for a minute and then restarted it to reboot the camera, and then all was fine. For whatever reason it has never acted up like that since then. Maybe by rebooting the camera it reset the wireless connection to the monitor. So you might try killing the power to the camera and restarting it and see if that helps like it did for us.

 

[Jesstruckn/Jesstalkn]

Re: Furrow Camera

I just bought the Furrion vision camera. had a devil of a time installing the plug and play until I found out that the pug in for the camera was wired wrong at the factory. Once I solved that it worked right off as long as the trailer was stationary.

It worked good in s straight line but when I turned it went black then came back on when the rig was straight. I had the rV parked in the driveway to load over night. Next day, camera would not come back on.

I went to the manufacture website support, did the chat thing, they were of no use at all. Was told a specialist would look into it and the that person would email me a copy of the chat. That was tuesday today is thursday, have not received the copy of the chat nor a call from the specialist. It seems to me they know they have a dud system that may or may not work.

I will be home on Monday, will be returning the system.I have seen too many posts from people who have the same camera and it does not function as advertised. I know some are working, mine is not.
If anyone has the magic please share.

We have had ours on the back of a 43' long landmark and it has worked perfectly for years now. At least until the RV wash guys break off my antenna "happened Twice now".
When I was in Goshen visiting with Furrion reps they were saying that some times if you have another wireless device like a TPMS running with it on a close frequency it can mess things up. I have a friend that both his camera and TPMS never work properly.

Do you have a wireless TPMS ?

 

[Dahillbilly]

Re: Furrow Camera

I just got a second camera today & the system would'nt pair to it. Finally I removed the camera from the mount & plugged it into the extra connection on the 12dcv power supply (cigarette lighter) cord. Paired asap, then I took the camera & re-installed it on the TH & it's working just fine. Will know for sure this weekend when we travel.

 

[Chainsaw]

Re: Furrow Camera

We have had ours on the back of a 43' long landmark and it has worked perfectly for years now. At least until the RV wash guys break off my antenna "happened Twice now".
When I was in Goshen visiting with Furrion reps they were saying that some times if you have another wireless device like a TPMS running with it on a close frequency it can mess things up. I have a friend that both his camera and TPMS never work properly.

Do you have a wireless TPMS ?

I sure do have a TPMS, thanks for the tip. I will give it a try.

- - - Updated - - -

Unfortunately don't have any magic for you. But one time shortly after I installed the Furrion Vision S system we started out on a trip and I lost the signal from the rear camera and it wouldn't come back on. I pulled the power on the monitor in the truck to reboot it, but still no signal. At the next rest stop, I cut the power to the camera for a minute and then restarted it to reboot the camera, and then all was fine. For whatever reason it has never acted up like that since then. Maybe by rebooting the camera it reset the wireless connection to the monitor. So you might try killing the power to the camera and restarting it and see if that helps like it did for us.

Thanks for the suggestion. My camera is wired into the clearance lights so it get re-booted each time I turn on the lights.

 

[LBR]

Re: Furrow Camera

Do another pairing outlined as in post #4...

We have 44' CY and crew cab that would periodically loose signal...of course that always happens we needed to view it, right?..

I installed 2 higher Db gain antennas remotely and haven't experienced hardly any dropouts at all since doing so a year ago. Now when stationary, the monitor shows 5 bars strength that drops to 3 bars at 60 mph...very happy now and it has become a trusted device....finally.

 

[avvidclif]

Re: Furrow Camera

Mine is wired to the parking lights so I can turn it on when needed. A hint: If the monitor antenna is vertical make the camera the same. My monitor antenna is horizontal because of where it's mounted. The camera is the same, horizontal. For the techies using a horizontally polarized antenna to connect to a vertically polarized antenna results in abt a 30 dB loss of signal strength.

 

[Chainsaw]

Re: Furrow Camera

Do another pairing outlined as in post #4...

We have 44' CY and crew cab that would periodically loose signal...of course that always happens we needed to view it, right?..

I installed 2 higher Db gain antennas remotely and haven't experienced hardly any dropouts at all since doing so a year ago. Now when stationary, the monitor shows 5 bars strength that drops to 3 bars at 60 mph...very happy now and it has become a trusted device....finally.

Do you have a TPMS?
How do you install these antenna? Where do you get them?

- - - Updated - - -

We have had ours on the back of a 43' long landmark and it has worked perfectly for years now. At least until the RV wash guys break off my antenna "happened Twice now".
When I was in Goshen visiting with Furrion reps they were saying that some times if you have another wireless device like a TPMS running with it on a close frequency it can mess things up. I have a friend that both his camera and TPMS never work properly.

Do you have a wireless TPMS ?

I just tried it without the TPMS running, worked, thanks

 

[Chainsaw]

I am parked in a camp site right now. stationary the camera worked with the TPMS turned off. I will wait until we leave on Monday and see if it works while one the road before I start doing back flips, well jumping up and down anyway.

thanks for the tips everyone.

 

[LBR]

Re: Furrow Camera

Do you have a TPMS?
How do you install these antenna? Where do you get them?

Yes, we run the TST TPMS on 12 tires with the extender set on the pin box.

I have the monitor antenna zip tied on the F-450 outside driver's mirror. The camera antenna is zip tied to our CY ladder (ladder is on driver's side) at the top. Both antennas are in 100% direct line.of.sight with each other.

You can shop Amazon to get all antennas and cables. Do pay attention to the proper pin-outs of the cables and connector ends attaching to each other, and also to your monitor and camera....otherwise you'll end up with 2 males or 2 females trying to mate up....haha...I better digress now..

 

[Chainsaw]

Here is an Update
I turned off the TPMS and the camera worked while parked. when we hit the road yesterday the Monitor went dark for some time then came back on with video then went off again after a few minutes. This happened all the way home.

After unloading the trailer I was putting the slides back in etc and it started raining, I got into the truck to head out to the storage compound. would you believe that the camera worked the entire way there ( it was raining pretty good). Got into the compound and it stopped raining, withing 4 or 5 minutes the camera stopped working.

Is it possible it over heats?

 

[LBR]

These monitors receiving the camera's signals are more topography related than directly receiving the signals. When you look at where your camera and monitor antennas are, then give thought on how amazing your system can work through that huge trailer you're towing.... pretty impressive, right? They don't work that way.

The signal from your camera is bounced forward off of the landscape to your monitor from both sides of the highway....guardrails, passing traffic, trees, buildings.... anything that can bounce the signal forward to the monitor. If there is little to nothing there, poor signal and blackouts will happen.

We experienced this driving from Az. into Or. In the Norcal I-5 area where there is no landscape, the freeway is well elevated above the lay of the flat-land, low humidity.....monitor blacked out more than it worked. A semi starts passing us and Bingo!...works perfectly until the trailer passes the camera and blackout again. We get into Or., same day travel with it raining, trees alongside the freeway, heavier traffic by the cities and system worked flawlessly rest of way up...heavy landscape "materials" and humidity made a huge difference to be able to trust the system once again.

As mentioned earlier, I replaced both antennas with longer, higher gain ones and relocated them to have a visual of each other...they have 100% line of sight now. They still feed off of the driver's side landscape, traffic, etc...but they are seeing each other also, rather than their antennas being stuck in the middle of the CC tow rig and 44' trailer almost 60' apart. Measurable dropouts are a thing of the past, however flickers do still occur passing high voltage power stations and other "interference type situations"

I now have full signal strength on the monitor while stationary, however at 60 MPH, the strength STILL drops a couple of bars due simply to the speed. Before the antenna relocate, I would have 2-3 bars strength sitting still, and at 60 MPH.....well, you know the rest of the story....

** Disclaimer** These are my thoughts and experiences...your results may vary!!

 

[Corm]

Hi folks! New member here. My name is Ed Cormier, wife's name is Holly. We have a 2017 Big Horn 3970RD. We've been living in it for the last 3 summers. Planning on towing it down south this winter (we have a 2019 F350 Diesel SRW 4x4 with an aux 46 gal fuel tank) , and would like to use the back up camera that came with it, installed high up on the back of it. I have no experience with back up cameras, and am trying to understand what I need to use in the cab of my truck in order to use that camera. I can see all kinds of back up cameras for sale in lots of places, but every one I've seen has all all the components in the package, and all I need is the part that goes in the truck. I hope this makes sense to someone....

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance -

Ed

 

[Jesstruckn/Jesstalkn]

Hi folks! New member here. My name is Ed Cormier, wife's name is Holly. We have a 2017 Big Horn 3970RD. We've been living in it for the last 3 summers. Planning on towing it down south this winter (we have a 2019 F350 Diesel SRW 4x4 with an aux 46 gal fuel tank) , and would like to use the back up camera that came with it, installed high up on the back of it. I have no experience with back up cameras, and am trying to understand what I need to use in the cab of my truck in order to use that camera. I can see all kinds of back up cameras for sale in lots of places, but every one I've seen has all all the components in the package, and all I need is the part that goes in the truck. I hope this makes sense to someone....

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance -

Ed

I guess you would need to call Furrion customer service (800) 789-3341 and tell them what camera you have. I think there are at least 2 versions out now. We now have the new one with the large screen and Love it.

 

[Corm]

Thanks for your response! I will be making a call today.

Ed