Trailer camera

[Identityincrisis]

Please can you all recommend a camera I can buy to put inside my trailer to allow my accompanying passenger to keep an eye on the horse?

Horse has been very difficult (see previous posts) but is really starting to come right, touching a whole forest of wood, and we are going further now and would like the reassurance all is ok in there!

It's my birthday soon so it's a good gift for family to club together

 

[cherylee]

My husband set up his go pro in the trailer so a friend could watch her horse that didn't travel very well! That worked well and a go pro has many uses just maybe a bit expensive.

 

[Micropony]

I got mine from Trailer Vision. I am really pleased with it, they were really helpful in advising which model to get, and they also arranged fitting. I had a camera put in the horse area and a reversing camera and screen in the lorry cab. Cost about five hundred I think. They said it was really quick and easy to install, but I didn't fancy it and my usual mechanic didn't really want the work so I used trailer vision's installation company, which cost another three hundred. Money well spent though, as it toom a team of two installation engineers about 4 hours. They came to the yard where the lorry was kept to do it, which I thought was a good service. No way could I have done it.

I am sure you can do it cheaper, depends how handy you are. This setup was a replacement for a rechargeable battery operated jobby I bought second hand for about £30, but it was a pain having to remember to charge it, and the battery life wasn't long enough for what I needed, particularly if I forgot to switch it off while at a show. Which I did regularly.

 

[cblover]

I've got a rydale camera for my trailer. Absolutely love it and it gives me such peace of mind. It's wireless, dead easy to install and the charge lasts about 3 hours travelling. It comes with all the stuff to charge it up in your car as you're travelling too and the chargers for home. Highly recommend it, I think it was £130.

 

[phizz4]

I bought a wireless camera and small led screen from Trailer Vision. It was less than 200 pounds. If you have an interior light in your trailer you can run a feed to the camera from that, so you don't have to re-charge anything. The screen plugs into the cigarette lighter socket and attaches to the dash or windscreen with a sucker, like a dash-cam. The only issue with this is that I need to put the side lights on to get a live feed to the interior light of the trailer.