Furron Back-up Camera

[KenSher]

Hi Everyone!
We have a 381M and had a Furrion with 5" screen for our towing truck. Had it installed by our Local Approved Dealership.
Question:
The camera on our 5th is always on; anyone else? Solutions to turn it off?

We unplugged the 5" screen on our truck but the 5th is still on. Strange.

Thanks in Advance!

[boyscout]

We have a 381M and had a Furrion with 5" screen for our towing truck. Had it installed by our Local Approved Dealership. The camera on our 5th is always on; anyone else? Solutions to turn it off? We unplugged the 5" screen on our truck but the 5th is still on. Strange.

Welcome. There are quite a few threads here about powering these cameras... please search before posting a new thread. Here's the gist, search elsewhere for more if you need it:

Yours is a common problem. Grand Design factory technicians are very inconsistent about how they wire the camera mount. Behind the mount is a small cable with a socket on it that your camera plugs into. The cable passes through a largish hole through the wall behind the mount and is connected to a circuit there. That cable has been connected at the factory to an always-powered circuit behind the wall of the trailer.

What a majority of people want - and what Grand Design sometimes installs - is the cable connected to the marker light circuit that powers the red marker lights at the top of the trailer wall. When wired that way, the camera is powered only when the truck is attached and the truck's lights are turned on (the marker lights come on when the truck lights do).

To remedy, you or your dealer will have to remove the camera, remove the mount, and disconnect the cable.

You may find the marker light circuit among the other wires accessible in the tight space behind the camera mount - use a tester to find it and connect the camera cable to that wire. Sometimes - as in my case - none of the wires accessible through that hole are marker light power so it's necessary to remove a marker light, connect a wire to its power, and snake that wire the short distance down through the styrofoam in the wall to the camera mount opening, where the camera power is connected to it.

Hope this helps.