Northern Virginia Roll Call

If you can't find anyone, and it doesn't have the ADD tube on it, shipping is cheap and easy. Stick it in a 5 gallon bucket with a lid and tape the shit out of it. Will cost about $50.

 

Could also link @RobP62 @pdenajim and some MD guys to get down here

 

That would have been too convenient! I’ll ask him. Thank you David

 

Help, my bed cover supports are starting to wear down. Where is the best place to get new ones? They are 23.5" extended and the bed cover is pretty heavy.

For reference.

Thanks

 

https://www.mcmaster.com/struts/gas-springs/

 

It was a good weekend.

 

what type do you recommend

 

Whatever one fits on your topper. You’ll need to do some research to see it’s dimensions, lift capacity and what type of ends it has.

Or contact the company and ask to buy replacements

 

Is anyone on here familiar with Shaky Cat Brewing? @ilubtimmyhos, @Casper66?

 

Not me

 

I think they might be local but only a home brewery? Got a strange friend request on Untappd and noticed the guy drank a lot of it from around here. Looked them up and they have a website but no selling or location info...oh, well. Thanks.

 

they got some neat brew names for sure!

 

No Sir

 

It was a great episode, need more people like this.

 

Close, it's this one.
https://goo.gl/maps/4UedWH9MkvG6uh3E8

 

So I’m still trying to get cameras installed on my wife’s truck and I’m not having any luck. There are red wires that require 12v power coming off of every connector, are they really necessary? I bought a “controller” And I can’t get that to work either.

These wires are coming off the front camera. A yellow av with a pos and net wrapped together and then a separate pos, and then It has another pos and neg on a separate connector



Here’s the front camera av cable on the inside that has another loose pos hanging off of it. And the camera controller and has a loose pos and neg separate from the av pos and neg.


I could use any insight as the instructions are in mandarin or something and I suck at electrical stuff

 

All the positives and negative leads coming off the cameras? You can run them all together. And then back to a switched 12v spot. There's one right behind the headunit. A ground, too. This is what I did for mine. Works perfectly. There's a reason they split them up like that, but I don't want to confuse you. Anyway, I'm looking at the controller and some of it doesn't make sense to me. Is there a wiring diagram with it? Let me see if I can find something online.

 

here’s what it came with

I also installed a pioneer head unit. I guess I need to splice this rear camera harness?

and the controller plugs into the “video in” on the back of the hu right?

 

Round two. I still have question marks. Let me rework my first answer. All the positves and negatives from the cameras? Run them back to their respective wires on the controller. You'll have the two sides left over. Then the RCAs the same way.

On the other harness: black to ground, red to switched 12v. Does the controller have a switch for it? I'm assuming that's what goes in the other plug? Either the DVD or DVR RCA will go to the back of the headunit where you indicated.

The headunit will need some kind of trigger to switch over to the camera input. I will make a guess that's what the monitor, left, right, and rear wires are. I'll make another guess and say you only need one of those. Why not start with monitor? If my thinking is right it would go to the reverse trigger wire on the headunit. You could test this through trial and error after you get everything else hooked up.

 

Just noticed something else. The camera RCA? I'm going to say plug it into the brown RCA input on the back of the headunit. A Pioneer headunit I had was like that and it took me forever to figure out why I didn't have video.