Thanks Terminator - I ended up going the bumblebee and putting it where the last one was (it is actually nicely tucked into one of the centre screw holes thing. So yeah it's all fixed. I ended up getting my money back from the chinaman saying that he said it would fit in an e53 and it didn't. He gave me a full refund and didn't bother asking for it to be returned. Maybe try that and you get a free camera :)

Terminator, go to home depot. Get yourself a bottle of this. Waterproof. I used it a year ago when I wired up a water pump inside a pit. Looked at the wires last night, still perfect.

Liquid Electrical Tape from Gardner Bender | The Home Depot - Model LTB-400

sounds like a deal... the liquid rubber is similar to the liquid tape but has slightly different properties... i have the liquid tape and will saturate the back of the camera once i get closer to the finish line - i just wanted to make sure the set up is in working state... it seems that the wireless video sender is working for relatively large distance and is available on the ebay separate from the camera - sure beats running wires under all of the trim... especially for those folks who might have an aftermarket headunit with a reverse camera input right at the head - they would not have to run a cable from the back of the car to the headunit...
Dennis, great minds think alike!!!! thanks for the tip on the liquid tape, it is coming up one of the next installments of this loooong write up...

how did you manage the Sandy?? I hope everything is ok...

I just came back from Staten Island a weekend before Sandy hit... Friend of mine lives on Arbitus (or is it Arbutus?) street, not too far from the water... he is ok, just without lights...

Man we got destroyed. Check the preparing for sandy thread. I've been updating what I see and what's happening. Long story short, totally unexpected, carnage, of the most epic proportion. Can't wait for this to become a memory.

And so, i adapted the camera into the frame.
Next step: relay, pdc hook, video module input.

Hi TerminatorX5,

video feed from camera goes to tv module - yellow cable from camera (signal and ground) - signal to pin 13 white connector and ground to pin 14 white connector - white connector of video module.

small relay - 12v low current coil - coil to pin 7 pdc and ground.

relay feeds ground to pin 17 of blue connector from video module.

Did i get it right?


Best regards,

Paulo

white plug
pin 13 - + from camera
pin 14 - shield from camera (-)

blue plug
pin 17 - (-) to trigger front monitor

middle plug on the PDC controller
pin 7 - to power coil of the relay that triggers (-) to pin 17 on TV module blue plug
any ground (-) to the second lead of that power coil of the relay

Let me know if you have more questions...

:)

keep us posted

Next weekend i will complete the job and post the results and details.
Thx!

Next weekend.... the last i was in the hospital due a kidney stone.... Sorry.

lol, hope you ok. No rush, we can wait.