A trial purchase for the mobile workshop which might be of interest to those with a horsebox. One of the downsides of the mobile workshop being trailer based instead of a van is reversing it around tight and awkward spaces especially when something is behind the trailer.

As an experiment I bought a wireless reversing camera https://www.auto-vox.com/product/W7.html I bought it 2nd hand but you can get it in many places brand new.

This comes in two parts

There is the monitor which sticks to the window and then plug into the cigarette lighter socket and that is it.

The other part is the camera which despite being class as wireless it needs a 12V feed. With the mobile workshop it has a big onboard power supply so that was easy to install. For a horsebox this won’t be as easy but there is 3 ways todo this

• Install a small battery pack with a solar panel in the horse box. A complex solution but it will also give you a power supply for things like internal LED lights

• If your towcar has a grey 7 pin socket or a properly installed 13 pin plug then there will be at least an constant 12V feed or even better a reversing light feed which can be used to supply the camera

• Assuming you only have black 7 pin socket then you could take a feed from the taillights or the fog lights but these lights would have to be on for the camera to work.

The camera has a fisheye lense so it is a very wide field of view but stuff looks weird. I have the camera pointed downwards so i can see the back of the trailer. However once you get used to it as well as using the mirrors you get a much better idea of what is around you.

But lets have a few pictures

So would i recommend a wireless reversing camera?

Completely if you are regularly towing a trailer

Would i recommend the Auto-vox W7

That is a wee bit harder to say. This works fine for me but i think with a wee bit more money you could get one with more features. If you had a better version which can take more than one camera as an input then you could place an extra camera inside the horsebox to keep an eye on the horse. You could also have a camera looking at the towball to make coupling up easier but i find it you are used to the trailer and you leave it in the same place this gets very easy.

If you see us at event with the trailer and you want to have a look feel free to ask.