When I installed mine, I ran my power lead to the reverse light and ground connection to the truck chassis behind the light. Where did you get your ground connection from?

 

The Alpine's can use either a traditional RCA type connection or their proprietary "direct" connection. I used the direct connection, where the camera has one connection to the back of the HU and another to the reverse circuit. The ground is integral to the direct connector.

I solved my problem btw. Ford uses a data managed reverse signal (so-called can-bus system) which apparently does send brief voltage pulses during various operations. When I reconnected my reverse wire to the PAC C2R-FRD1 Ford Radio Replace Interface instead of my back-up light, the problem was resolved.

Mike

 

just installed mine today. Wired through the cab by feet through that rubber harness piece. All the way to the license plate however the camera just said the words about the image might be reversed but only showed a black screen. I hooked up the black wire from the camera to the black wire from my tailight but i guess i actually have to ground it with a screw?? The red wire is hooked up to the reverse light coloured wire & my yellow video wire is hooked up to the back of my head unit (pioneer avhp4400)

By what i have read it looks like i need to hook up that reverse wire from the back of my head unit to that small reverse box by my hood latch.

 

OP, so the wire from the black/pink reverse trigger down in the kick panel goes to the back of the head unit?

 

You kind of have it backwards.......You should have a wire coming from your head unit that is labeled "reverse" or something to that effect. That's what you connect to the plug behind the kick panel.

 

Mike, did you connect the reverse trigger wire from your HU to the green wire from the PAC interface?

 

Thanks for the help. That's kind of what i meant, but i worded it kind of dumb. I just wanted to make sure before i started hooking things up. Thanks again.

 

Got it all hooked up. I can see the camera working fine if i put my head unit on the AV input, so i know it works. But the image doesn't show up when i put it into reverse. It switches the screen black and just says "image may appear reversed". What do i need to do? I played with the polarity settings and that didn't do it.
Pioneer avh 3300bt.

 

Nevermind, just got it. I had it hooked into the AV input instead of the camera input. Works great.

 

Quality, I have the Alpine INA W900. I'm sure our setup is similar. What Im wondering if you attempted to have the always on option. I have mine connected the same way and everything works as its suppose to. Mi do have the option in settings where I can turn in the camera manually, it enables a little backup camera icon next to my phone icon but when I press it, the screen is back. Also I would like to install a front camera as well, not sure if you have an idea where to start with that.