Swift Hitch Back Up Camera System Fully Portable

By admin on March 1st, 2010

Swift Hitch Back Up Camera System Fully Portable with Night Vision and Color LCD Screen

Save time, money, energy and the hassle that comes with having to ”blindly” line your trailer hitch and the ball with the easy-to-use Swift Hitch Back Up Camera System. The Swift Hitch is a wireless color camera system with built-in night vision that enables you to hitch-up your boat trailer, horse trailer, camper or snow plow without hassle. Simply mount the magnetic camera onto your tailgate, view yourself backing up to the hitch on the 2-1/2” full color, LCD screen and hitch up and go.

The SwiftHitch comes in handy when you are backing down a ramp to launch or while backing in to a slip, looking into tight spaces on remodeling jobs or while you are adjusting a satellite dish on a RV. We have seen so many different applications with our Swift Hitch System; it is up to you as to how you use it! It can be mounted anywhere on your vehicle and the fact that it is fully portable makes it easy as 1-2-3!

PORTABLE WIRELESS CAMERA SYSTEM * EASY TO USE, SINGLE-HAND OPERATION * 2.5″ Full COLOR LCD SCREEN * 960 X 240 RESOLUTION * 380 TV LINE COLOR CAMERA * MONITOR HAS 2+ HOUR LIFE RECHARGEABLE BATTERY * CAMERA HAS 5+ HOUR LIFE RECHARGEABLE BATTERY * CIGARETTE LIGHTER ADAPTER CHARGER INCLUDED * INFRA-RED LED’S FOR NIGHT VISION * 300 ft. transmission distance * Magnetic base * Night vision function automatically turns on/off, Night Vision Range: 15 feet * Charge Time: 2 hours * Reverses image to make backing up easier * Viewing distance: 300 feet without obstruction * Swift Hitch works on the license-exempt 2.4GHz industrial, scientific and medical (ISM) frequency band * Charging cable is included * One Year Limited Warranty Overall Dimensions: 3-1/8″ wide x 5-1/8″ tall x 1-1/4″ deep LCD screen measures 1-9/16″ (tall) x 2″ (wide) Size: Overall Dimensions: 3-1/8″ wide x 5-1/8″ tall x 1-1/4″ deep LCD screen measures 1-9/16″ (tall) x 2″ (wide)

Product Features

* PORTABLE WIRELESS CAMERA SYSTEM * EASY TO USE, SINGLE-HAND OPERATION *
* 2.5″ Full COLOR LCD SCREEN * 960 X 240 RESOLUTION * 380 TV LINE COLOR CAMERA
* MONITOR HAS 2+ HOUR LIFE RECHARGEABLE BATTERY * CAMERA HAS 5+ HOUR LIFE RECHARGEABLE BATTERY
* CIGARETTE LIGHTER ADAPTER CHARGER INCLUDED * INFRA-RED LED’S FOR NIGHT VISION * 300 ft. transmission distance * Magnetic base* Night vision function automatically turns on/off, Night Vision Range: 15 feet * Charge Time: 2 hours * Reverses image to make backing up easier * Viewing distance: 300 feet without obstruction * Swift Hitch works on the license-exempt 2.4GHz industrial, scientific and medical (ISM) frequency band * Charging cable is included
* * Night vision function automatically turns on/off, Night Vision Range: 15 feet * Charge Time: 2 hours * Reverses image to make backing up easier * Viewing distance: 300 feet without obstruction * Swift Hitch works on the license-exempt 2.4GHz industrial, scientific and medical (ISM) frequency band * Charging cable is included * One Year Limited Warranty

Swift Hitch Back Up Camera System Fully Portable Review

Marriage Saver
No more fighting with your spouse when you hitch up the trailer. I think my wife actually gets some perverse satisfaction out of our hitching sessions. That makes one of us. So when she steps back into the house to grab a jacket (or whatever that “one more thing” is that keeps us from leaving), I quickly snap the magnetic camera onto the tailgate and hitch up the trailer before she makes it back outside.

Yes, it’s that fast.

The image quality is great. The display is very clear. You can even reverse the picture to correct for the “my left or the camera’s left?” challenge. My only complaint is that there is a little static as you get farther away from the camera (or if the charge is low).

I bought this camera for a specific reason (not to avoid the hitching wars with my wife, because that’s actually kind of fun–kind of). The spaces in my RV storage yard are very close together and I have a very bad blind spot on the curb-side of the trailer. This happens to be the side that swings wide when I pull out of my space. One time the rear corner of my trailer hit the mirror of the RV parked next to me. So I bought this camera in hopes of correcting that blind spot.

Although my awning arms are aluminium, there’s just enough metal hardware for the camera’s magnet to stick to. Then as I’m pulling out of my space (or backing in), I can see how close I’m getting to my neighbor’s RV. The picture quality isn’t great at that distance, but it’s still good enough to help me avoid any more close calls.

I kind of doubt the claim of 300′ range. Mine has never worked at even half that distance. I’m lucky to get a signal from the rear end of my 30′ trailer, but I’m sure there’s a big difference between unobstructed line of sight coverage and bouncing the signal around my trailer and over the bed of my truck (probably about 40′). Honestly though, there’s slight signal loss just from sticking it on my tailgate ten feet away.

Anyway, I’m very happy with the product. It’s not cheap, but it’s a lot cheaper than buying another mirror for my neighbor’s RV.