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12-Volt PWM filter prevents camera dropouts on your RV backup camera system. Works on 2021-2022 Chevy and GM trucks with advanced tow packages and other vehicles with PWM. Splices into your camera system's wiring with included butt connectors.
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Hey guys, Kevin here with Etrailer. And today I'm gonna be showing you how to install the Voyager PWM filter here on our 2018 Forest River Grey Wolf travel trailer. If you purchased a 2021 or a 2022 and on GM or Chevy truck, you've noticed that your Furrion or your Voyager camera no longer works. This is because the pulse wave modulation that sends your power from your seven way back to your camera no longer sends the same amount of voltage which ends up losing your signal. You can't ever connect for whatever reason. GM just decided to change their wiring so camera companies had to make up a solution to fix that for the 2022, 2020 vehicles.
There used to be a little seven way connector that you could use. But once again, in the 2021 versions GM changed their wiring again. So we we're left with nothing except for wiring your camera directly to a battery up until now. So Voyager came up with this PWM filter which sends power from your seven way up to our wiring here. It's gonna go into this capacitor, it'll build up power and then push that up to your camera, to boost the voltage to what it needs to be so that you can get a direct signal.
So for this installation fairly straightforward, pretty easy. All you need to do is just make sure that you have the correct tools for the job. That being a wire stripper, that can go up to 22 or 24 gauge wire, some electrical tape, and then a crimping tool that can crimp down those butt connectors. So all in all fairly simple, it tells you exactly which way it needs to go. 'Cause it has that one little white collar on one side of our wiring that says, hey, this goes to the camera side.
And then just the opposite side goes right over to our trailer wiring. So all in all really easy, anyone at home could do it themselves. All right, so to begin our installation, we're gonna have to remove our camera and possibly our mount, depending on what kind of gasket you have on the back. I've already removed this just to double check and there is a gasket in the way. So I'm just gonna go ahead and take the whole mount off.
If you can get away with just pulling the camera out definitely go for that. But one little word of advice, these screws are super tiny. So make sure you got your hand there ready to catch 'em because you don't wanna loose them. I've got our shark-fin mount down here on our Furrion camera. You can see this little rubber gaskets in the way, and I need to get to my wiring here. So what I'm gonna do, because This is gonna be too big to fit through that hole. I'm gonna take my wire cutters here and just kind of snip back some of this gasket. I don't wanna go too crazy though, 'cause we do want to keep this just so we are making sure that we're waterproof here. Try and do my knife. You just wanna be real careful that you're not cutting too much and taking any chances and actually cutting into your wire. And what I'm doing instead of cutting a giant hole is just cutting little strips so that when we push it, it'll go right in and then kinda help it from coming back out. So we're gonna go ahead and I'm gonna cut my wire right about here. I wanna make sure that I'm not cutting too close to our connector, but I also don't wanna be too far up that I'm not gonna be able to get to my wiring again. And then we can set our camera aside. So I strip back the casing that goes over our two wires here. And as you can see I mean these are like maybe 22 gauge wire. I mean they're real, real tiny. So you need to be real careful cutting the casing off of these that you don't just cut through the wire itself. And I'm actually gonna cut a little bit more than I need off just because with this being so small I wanna make sure that I can double it up and stick it into our butt connectors that came on our filter here. I ended up twisting our negative wire. I'm gonna do the other side right now with our positive twisted it just a little bit and then I'ma fold it in half and twist it again. So I get a nice thick piece here that I can stick into my butt connector 'cause I don't want those butt connectors coming out. We can go ahead and take our filter. So there's two sides. One, side's gonna come with this little strip here. That's gonna say, hey, this is going to your camera. So we wanna use the opposite end and then run this up to our camera side. So for this side, our red is going to be our power. Just like with our camera here, red is our power. So I'm gonna connect those just like they are with their colors and take my crimpers. So I'm gonna pop this on and with how small that wire gauge is, if you need to fold it a couple of times don't feel bad about it. Go ahead and do it. All right now that I got my power wire crimped, I'm gonna go ahead and do my negative side. Make sure it's nice and tight up in there. And then I'm gonna go ahead and crimp it. And I'm gonna give it a little yank test just to make sure I got solid connections on both. I don't wanna take any chance at this coming undone or just not making the connection because then our camera's not gonna work. And since we strip back that casing we have some exposed wire. I'm gonna go ahead and just wrap this up, nice and tight with some electrical tape. I don't wanna take any chances that water getting through the gasket here and ruining our connections. All right, now that that's nice and tight. We can go ahead head and push our wiring back up into the body of our trailer. Like I said before, I just cut little strips into the gasket here. That way I can push this in and have it kinda hold it in place without it popping back out. And this wall, so this wall is a little bit thinner. So you may have to kind of play around, getting it in right. Just because of the size of our capacitor here. You need to, you can like on this gasket, it's kind of loose. So I can kind of pull it through just a little bit from the backside. Push it down into our hole. And now we can make our connections with our camera. So once again, I'm gonna strip back my casing so I can expose my wires. We'll strip back our casing on our individual wires. I'll spin those up a little bit. And fold them over. And just like before I'm gonna connect my red wire with my red wire on the filter. And my black wire with my black wire on the filter. I'll go ahead and do a little yank test. Just make sure that these are in there nice and tight. Both sides, and we'll go ahead and seal up our connection with some more electrical tape. Once that's complete, we can push our wiring in. We can leave just like this connection point out just like it was when the camera was first installed. And then we can start mounting our shark-fin up into position. And that was a good time also to check your caulking around your mount. Make sure if you need to replace any of it you don't wanna take a chance at having any water getting in and ruining your camera. All right now with our camera back in place we can go ahead and test it to make sure it works. All right, now that we're hooked up to our truck. We can see that the camera obviously works 'cause you can see me right now waving. So we're all good to go. Well, I think that about does it for our insulation here on the Voyager PWM filter here on our 2018 Forest River Gray Wolf travel trailer. My name's Kevin, thanks for watching..
Average Customer Rating: 4.6 out of 5 stars (90 Customer Reviews)
12-Volt PWM filter prevents camera dropouts on your RV backup camera system. Works on 2021-2022 Chevy and GM trucks with advanced tow packages and other vehicles with PWM. Splices into your camera system's wiring with included butt connectors.I installed the part on the RV the other day I took the installation to a new level by actually soldering the ends and shrink wrapping. I did not have enough room behind the RV skin to insert the part but luckily there was enough room behind the camera housing to touch the part inside.I silicone put everything together tested the unit and it seems to be running flawlessly and also staying constantly i'm sending some pics
The PWM filter worked great. Solved my Furrion rear-view camera power problem.
However the price is steep considering the cost of the electronics inside.
The crimp connector ends should be replaced with WAGO 221-412 lever nuts and a small tube of corrosion inhibiting compound.
I am very happy that e-trailer had this product as I am on my second travel trailer and Chevrolet truck that needed this fix. I recently tried the "pigtail" Furrion adapter that plugs in to the 7 way plug but had dropouts and other camera issues. E-trailers ordering and shipping times were excellent on this product. The videos on installation were straightforward and very helpful! Upon receiving it, I had it installed and functional within an hours time. My observation camera is now solid in its connections with no signal loss and no pixelated screens.
I should rate this 5 stars for fixing my camera connection issue, but it is very expensive for what appears to be quite a simple wire assembly. I was also not a fan of the crimp connectors provided, as the wire gauge was very small and made me nervous it would break.
Just finished installing this filter on my Furrion S camera. I connected my 2023 GMC Sierra Denali HD and turned on the lights. The Furrion camera is working great. Prior to installing this filter, the camera would not work at all due to the PWM electrical system GMC uses for their trailering connection.
I have a 2022 Chevy 2500 HD and I’m using the Furrion Vision S camera on the back of my rig. I could never get signal due to the type of power coming from my year model truck. I installed the 12v pwm filter at the back of the RV at the camera, plugged it all up, turned the truck on, turned the lights on, and I finally have signal again for my camera. 12v pwm filter worked perfectly and was a breeze to install.
Solved my problem but is very expensive for what you get. I rate it high for solving the problem and for how it’s packaged, but low for value for the money. It consists of a resistor, a capacitor, connecting wires, and a simple circuit board that provides the means to solder them together. The main benefit of this one versus less expensive ones I could get elsewhere is that it is small enough to fit in the small cavity behind the camera mount on my trailer. But don’t do what I did and not pay close enough attention to the length of the camera bracket mounting screws. I managed to drive one of them right into the capacitor in the filter, ruining it, and leading me to discover what the filter consists of and then buying a second one. My lessons are sometimes expensive.
I ordered this because it was what I was told would fix my problem from someone that works on RVs not knowing I didn't have the advanced towing package and being ignorant about it not fixing my problem if it didn't have that. They refused to give me a refund even though all it needed was new butt connectors and it would be the same as new. I wasted $[XX] on a wire so this will definetly be my last purchase to etrailer. Poor customer service. There are too many other options for people to refuse refunds.
The PWM filter corrected the problem on my backup camera on my 5th wheel. The GM trucks voltage problem was corrected. Easy to install.
The leads are too long but I managed to get my camera back in place . I found shorted wires as the culprit . My voltage was fine but my camera will not transmit to the screen in the cab when in front of the fifth wheel . I replaced the antenna to no avail .
Worked great for about a year.
But, failed and quit working after about 50 hours of use. I used it on the trailer tail light circuit for a Grand Design Momentum 23G which has LED Lights and a Furrion backup Camera. The PWM Signal was from the 7 pin plug on my 2022 GMC Sierra 2500.
Katrina D.
8/29/2023
I have gotten in contact with the manufacturer and they have stated that for some SUVs or new model trucks have a PWM power signal transmitted by the vehicle. This method of power distribution does not provide enough current for the transmitter to boost the image signal out to the monitor and the pulse of electrical signal for the lights is just the right frequency that it causes resonating in the relay and does not close in order to route power from the coach battery to the camera. You can correct this with a 7way adapter, like part # F2BC004XXBK. You could also rewire the camera power, I will send you detailed information on how to do that via email.
This product was the answer to my problem. After buying a $500 camera system for my 5th wheel I found out it wouldn’t work with my 2021 Cheverolet Silverado 3500. After waiting for about a year for development, finally saw this and ordered. Fixed the power problem and now the camera system works perfectly.
With the LED lights on the trailer this was the only way the new Chevy would hook up and work the back up camera appreciate it
Would be really nice if there were instructions included. Googled and found a video but still not clear as to which wires go where.
Filter works great very easy to install
The part does exactly what is supposed to do.
It solves the issues and camera has worked perfectly
This adapter /PWM filter solved my problem of my furrion backup camera not working with my 2022 Silverado 2500 HD pickup truck. It was easy to install after watching the installation video on your website. Shipment was fast .It was delivered in 3 days.
Don W.
5/9/2023
Good! No problems.
Quick delivery hooked up in minutes and fixed the problem
Arrived on time as promised. It took about 20 minutes to intstall on the Furrion camera on my travel trailer. I have not taken a "road test" yet, but works perfectly in the driveway. Cured the camera cut-out issues that were caused when I upgraded my truck to a 2023 Chevy.
Worked as advertised! No problems installing! Would highly recommend to anyone having problems with the camera
2022 Silverado 2500HD would not power our Furrion Vision S backup camera (camera worked fine on previous truck). Tried a Furrion power adapter and it wouldn’t power the RV lights, let alone the camera. Installed the PWM filter and everything works perfect. Don’t waste your time/money on anything else.
Quick delivery on my order and the product worked on installation the first time. That is a win-win in my view.
easy to install
This part absolutely resolved my issue. Continues to perform flawlessly a year later.
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Heather A.
2/15/2024
Dang, I am sorry that this part wasn't what you needed. I am happy you figured it out, a short in the wiring can definitely cause issues. Did fixing the short fix the screen in the cab problem?