I failed to get any replies to my previous post on this camera system so I went ahead and fitted mine in the way that seemed best and easiest... Though I MIGHT revise things in time.
My bike is a 2017 GSA LC Triple Black.
The Front camera I mounted on a custom made bracket above the headlight. I considered buying a bracket to fix the camera on the indicator stub, but I wanted to get a centre line POV in the shot... AND as I already had a sheet of 2mm aluminium, it cost me only the time it took to make.
The rear cam, I mounted on the rear near-side indicator stalk... that way it "shouldn't" get too dirty from the exhaust - HOPEFULLY!
I covered the openings on the GPS aerial with "transpa-seal" (Clear sticky-backed-plastic) and I've set that in the front right of the fairing.
I removed the centre section of the tank cover (2 x T25, 1 T30 bolts at the very front, 2 x T25 in the coin tray & 2 x T25 at the very rear of the tank cover - it then un-clips quite easily from the rear) I ran the wire from the camera along the left side weld of the tank seam, the GPS wire ran along the opposite side.
For now, I've mounted the DVR unit under the pillion seat, "waterproofing it" with a heavy duty clip-seal poly bag. To save the LCD screen getting dinked, I taped two pieces of UPVC plastic across the top.
I used the supplied 5V power converter, also fixing that under the pillion seat. All wires going to the DVR unit were fitted with ferrous ballast units that I bought on e-Bay. The trigger for the power supply was taken from a PDM60 unit that I fitted.
I have had to re-programme the DVR unit to recognise that the cameras have been "flipped" but that was pretty simple to do - even though the instructions that come with the camera system are near non-existent.
Tomorrows commute will be the proving ground for how the cameras perform on the home-made brackets... but I'm fairly confident they'll be OK.
I didn't bother with the supplied switch to control the cameras as I want them recording all the time.
Would I recommend this system? YES - as it's cheaper than many, unobtrusive and it covers front AND rear views.
My bike is a 2017 GSA LC Triple Black.
The Front camera I mounted on a custom made bracket above the headlight. I considered buying a bracket to fix the camera on the indicator stub, but I wanted to get a centre line POV in the shot... AND as I already had a sheet of 2mm aluminium, it cost me only the time it took to make.
The rear cam, I mounted on the rear near-side indicator stalk... that way it "shouldn't" get too dirty from the exhaust - HOPEFULLY!
I covered the openings on the GPS aerial with "transpa-seal" (Clear sticky-backed-plastic) and I've set that in the front right of the fairing.
I removed the centre section of the tank cover (2 x T25, 1 T30 bolts at the very front, 2 x T25 in the coin tray & 2 x T25 at the very rear of the tank cover - it then un-clips quite easily from the rear) I ran the wire from the camera along the left side weld of the tank seam, the GPS wire ran along the opposite side.
For now, I've mounted the DVR unit under the pillion seat, "waterproofing it" with a heavy duty clip-seal poly bag. To save the LCD screen getting dinked, I taped two pieces of UPVC plastic across the top.
I used the supplied 5V power converter, also fixing that under the pillion seat. All wires going to the DVR unit were fitted with ferrous ballast units that I bought on e-Bay. The trigger for the power supply was taken from a PDM60 unit that I fitted.
I have had to re-programme the DVR unit to recognise that the cameras have been "flipped" but that was pretty simple to do - even though the instructions that come with the camera system are near non-existent.
Tomorrows commute will be the proving ground for how the cameras perform on the home-made brackets... but I'm fairly confident they'll be OK.
I didn't bother with the supplied switch to control the cameras as I want them recording all the time.
Would I recommend this system? YES - as it's cheaper than many, unobtrusive and it covers front AND rear views.