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Rear Camera 5 Pin Connector Diagram - Toguard Backup Camera Replacement
Rear Camera 5 Pin Connector Diagram - Toguard Backup Camera Replacement
A year ago, I bought a Toguard 5" Android dash cam with a backup camera. Several months ago, the
backup camera died. Here is a picture of the camera that came with it (from the Amazon listing):
I figured I'd search Amazon for a replacement camera. I found this one and thought it was the same.
Replacement backup camera
I plugged it in and . . . nothing. Then I attached the power wires on the new camera. Still nothing.
Therefore, I did a quick resistance check and saw that they were not wired the same. That rather upset
me, so I took it out on the cameras - both of them. I had to take them apart and see how each was
wired. So on the long shot that somebody is looking for a wiring diagram for both of these backup
cameras, here ya go.
Toguard backup camera, disassembled
The wire from the camera to the DVR mirror is a five-conductor cable, with a foil shield.
As far as I can tell, here is how the original backup camera for the Toguard DVR mirror was wired to
the 2.5mm four conductor plug:
Comparing the two wiring diagrams, you can see that plugging this into my DVR mirror and connecting
power to the new backup camera was a bad thing. That put +12V on the video input. Keep in mind that
the Android tablet only runs on +5V. I think the backup camera input is now fried.
Replacement backup camera plug
Now, look at the above picture. Can you think of any reason why it would be necessary to connect +12V
to any tablet device's input? That does not make any sense to me.
Replacement backup camera, disassembled
Replacement backup camera, showing the image sensor on the circuit board
Although the outside and the plugs looked very similar, these two cameras were in fact, very
different.