It’s several years ago since I fitted my rearview camera on my caravan.   This is the inexpensive kit from eBay which I used.

However, I discovered on my last tow that it had stopped working. The monitor was lit, but no picture. As I wanted to fit some additional lights in the van, I thought I would rewire the camera at the same time.

There wasn’t a lighting circuit on the nearside of the van so I decided to put in new wiring direct from the caravan battery. I connected a negative and positive from the two battery terminals and then into the under-seat locker where they connected to a four fuse block.

The kit of LED lights came from eBay which matched those I got previously to replace some halogen lights over the sink area. Two went in the bathroom

and the other two below the cupboards over the worktop.

Switches for both sets were fitted nearby with all the wiring hidden inside cupboards or behind panels.

I decided to remove the camera wiring from the fridge circuit and wire it to one of the fused outputs with its own control switch in the caravan. The wiring went through the floor alongside the mover cables. Then from there, along the caravan chassis to the camera. When I originally fitted the camera I didn’t want to drill the rear panel of the caravan so I settled on fitting it under the floor of the van.

It gives a ‘worm’s-eye’ view but I’m happy with that.

To protect the connecting plugs from any road spray I fixed a ‘choc-box’ to the underside of the floor and enclosed the plugs and sockets within the box. The wiring was fixed to the floor with staples, then across to the chassis. The monitor is attached to the dashboard by means of a rubber suction pad with the cable going under the rubber mat in the boot.

I also fitted a 12volt cigar lighter socket in the caravan wired back to the fuse block and protected with a 10amp fuse. This I think will be useful for using a tyre pump for the caravan tyres when the car isn’t close by.