Last night I needed to put the 5ver back into storage. My storage site has very limited side-to-side room. The space is close enough that if I get my trailer right in between the other two neighboring trailers then I might have to be careful about opening the door and hitting the other trailers.
Because of the layout of the storage facility and where my site is, to get the trailer put away I need to back around a bit of a corner on the passenger (blind side).
Although this country raised kid can generally maneuver a trailer pretty well...I grew up being able to look over my shoulder and see where the trailer (usually a short hay-trailer) needed to go. I'm not nearly as good at using the mirrors and blind-side backins with the 5ver. I get there eventually, but it does take more time and corrections.
Well.... in another thread I previously described how I have setup a Wireless webcamera to use with my laptop as a sort of a backup camera. Based on a posting in that thread, I got the idea to take the camera out of the trailer and plug it into a portable power-inverter box. Then I setup the camera behind the storage spot so that it was setup to watch me backup from the same angle a human spotter might be.
This was dramatically easier for this feller (me) to see where the trailer was in relation to the other two. I was able to get backed in with only minimal corrections and fuss. Having the backup camera mounted on the back of the trailer is certainly a help...but I found that disconnecting it completely from the trailer and using it as a "robot" spotter was far superior.
Just thought I'd share the idea/thought with those of you that may be "geeky" like me....
Here's a link to the other thread where I discussed the camera system from idea to completion....
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