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I think the only other camera compatible with the Garmin would be a hard wired unit - but I don't know that for sure...
I'll be doing a more detailed installation post soon, but I just got it wired/wirelessly paired to the Garmin in my truck. The camera is about 70' from the truck in these pictures and the sun is quite bright today so there is some glare on the screen and that washed out some of the colors.
The curved white surface you see at the bottom of the screen is the white fairing at the bottom of the trailer. At the edge of the blacktop are two small jackstands and a concrete block.
I'm calling this a success so far!
I have the Garmin RV760 with the camera and 50' extension. I am very pleased with the set up, I can switch between trailer routing and truck only routing on the fly which I do so I can see where it is routing me with the trailer specs plugged in. I can't compare to any other brands as Garmin is all I have used and I like the way they work so I havent tried another brand.
We don't have a 5th wheel just a 26' vintage trailer. But we have survived with a regular Garmin and now supplement it with the Waze app which I highly recommend for real time traffic, road construction and police updates.
The biggest issue we have had with the newer Garmins is that they don't tell you they are recalculating a route. So once outside Park City we made a wrong turn and the GPS just routed us up over a mountain on twisty roads. That was a real nail biter. Now we pay more attention to make sure it doesn't recalculate.
We have considered an RV version but with Waze we probably won't bother replacing it when it dies.
Oh, and don't pay for real time traffic on Garmin, totally worthless.
I agree regarding real time traffic. I have stuck with my old Garmin which is many years old. Only problem is, it does not have enough memory to download entire updates so I have to pick which section of the country I want to get lost in.
We don't have a 5th wheel just a 26' vintage trailer. But we have survived with a regular Garmin and now supplement it with the Waze app which I highly recommend for real time traffic, road construction and police updates.
The biggest issue we have had with the newer Garmins is that they don't tell you they are recalculating a route. So once outside Park City we made a wrong turn and the GPS just routed us up over a mountain on twisty roads. That was a real nail biter. Now we pay more attention to make sure it doesn't recalculate.
We have considered an RV version but with Waze we probably won't bother replacing it when it dies.
Oh, and don't pay for real time traffic on Garmin, totally worthless.
we had 5 times this vacation where waze didn't have network connection and couldn't tell us where we were supposed to go.. worst was in Canada, and it cut out just before the most critical turn..
course we have nav in the truck, but didn't think to use it til the last rural route. doah! used Waze the rest of the way back tho.
waze did lead us to a low bridge the second night.. (truck nav would have done the same) TruckerPath app did not.
I downloaded Waze a coupla years ago and read the user license agreement before installing it. The ULA at the time had you agree to allow it full license to all your content on the device including the use of all location /GPS, text messages and contacts... That was too stiff of a price for me to pay so i opted out and found the app almost worthless at that point so I dropped it...
Well, guess ya gotta like what you are used to or have
So far in over 2000 miles this past week the Garmin 760RV has done just fine and hasn't lead me astray though in Custer, SD it did send me a kind of obtuse way to the campground but not wrong nor any further.
As far as the need for an RV GPS - the big thing is for low bridges, or where we are right now, some very twisty roads with 10 foot tunnels, otherwise the tried and proven Garmin 2597 worked pretty well except in Canada last summer where 3x it sent me 180* opposite of where we were going.
I really like that 7" screen on the 760 for my aging eyes though.
I don't/wont pay anyone for traffic info. I made it easily around Buffalo, Erie, Cleveland and *gasp* Chicago with Buffalo and Erie at peak rush hour, and Waze - never heard of it but will look.
Dave - wait till you have to sell a kidney so you can afford the map updates next year....
I agree with you. I updated mine once - and that's it. I just use my old Garmin with lifetime maps. I can buy a tank and a half of diesel for the price of an update for the Ford nav - which is designed for cars.
Back home and Samantha (the lady forever trapped inside my 760RV) and I are still on speaking terms though she did try to send me in one circle in Kentucky but I outfoxed her and got the backup tried and proven nuvi 1450 out. She does have a problem with pronouncing Missouri though and calls it Misery - a Freudian slip perhaps or maybe only a speech impediment.
So I wonder what the deal was in Kentucky?
I've not tried updating my Garmin yet.. I 'spose I oughta figure out how to do that pretty soon..
Randy - it got us to the CG just fine. I went out to fuel up one way and get some groceries which happened to be in the opposite direction. I think that 'Samantha' just did a female thing.
When you do your update, be prepared with a cold beverage, some chips and some time as, depending on your connection(mine is fast), takes about an hour and fifteen minutes once you have the Garmin down loader figured out. It wont work on our ancient but faithful home built desk top with XP so I need to use my laptop.
The bison was just strolling down the road in Yellowstone about 7:30am.
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