Nomenclature Needed for Camera Cables & Connectors

[CT_AZ_4x4]

Hi, All;

Any help with the size and type of coaxial cable used for the OEM CT cameras would be greatly appreciated.

I’ve moved my rear camera so that it is no longer occluded by my spare tire. I will be fabricating a bracket so that the camera is oriented approximately where it is normally located, but about 12-14 inches rearward to avoid occlusion. I’m also working on the bracket to make the camera hinge between 2 detentes: one for the tailgate up and th other for the tailgate down.

I need some help identifying the nomenclature of the camera, the camera cable, and the connector that goes from the cable to the camera.

Mongo! Please help!

Thank you!

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[mongo]

Hi, All;

Any help with the size and type of coaxial cable used for the OEM CT cameras would be greatly appreciated.

I’ve moved my rear camera so that it is no longer occluded by my spare tire. I will be fabricating a bracket so that the camera is oriented approximately where it is normally located, but about 12-14 inches rearward to avoid occlusion. I’m also working on the bracket to make the camera hinge between 2 detentes: one for the tailgate up and th other for the tailgate down.

I need some help identifying the nomenclature of the camera, the camera cable, and the connector that goes from the cable to the camera.

Mongo! Please help!

Thank you!

The connectors are FAKRA. They come in various keying, but Z is universal. Amazon carries a bunch of male-female extension cables.

That was my posts and experience with relocating the rear camera. As mentioned in another post in this thread it was pretty easy to relocate. I used an extension antenna cable with the matching connectors to fit the Tesla camera (I found a post of a M3 using the same cable for a camera). I moved the camera to the top and back of the Urander rack. I temporarily zip tied it to the roof rack cross bar and aligned the camera to match as close as I could to the view of tailgate mounted camera. Everything seemed good and worked for almost the entire trip from Northern CA to the Colorado Pikes Peak Tesla event. My DAS shutdown about 100 miles from home. This is when I first noticed all the error messages in the alert logs about the rear camera self calibration failing. It had been posting the alerts since I relocated the camera, but I never looked at the logs in service mode. I reset DAS and drove the few miles to re-calibrate my cameras. FSD was back working again. FSD continued to work for the rest of my trip home, about 100 miles. However, the next time I drove the CT, DAS had shutdown again.

I reconnected the camera in the tailgate and removed my spare tire from the UP bumper swing arm. I am sure if I had someone 3D print a camera mount that would securely hold the camera in the exact pitch/roll/yaw position as the tailgate location it would work. However, that could easily change with FSD updates.

Couple of my takes about relocating the spare tire. I really wanted my spare tire out of the vault to have the additional space for camping gear. It did work great and it was nice having the extra space. But, I didn’t understand the new issues with having a spare tire on a swing arm. I liked to drop my tailgate at Superchargers to prepare a meal. This is mostly not possible because there is not enough space to fully move the swing arm out to drop the tailgate. Some of the older V1/V2 Superchargers are not positioned the same and it is pain backing in between the stations to get close enough for the cable to reach the charging port. This is similar issue at home in the garage with two cars. I had to back in my CT a little farther into the garage to allow the swing arm to fully open without hitting my wife’s MX. Basically, anytime you want to drop the tailgate, you have to consider the amount of space on the side of your CT. One other smaller item. The spare tire on the bumper is adding about 100lbs past the rear tires. I weighed my CT at a closed truck scales and found that my rear axle weight was about 1,200lbs more than the front axle.
Anyway, I not sure if I am going to try again. Right now, I am preparing for another trip and I have relocated/removed gear in the vault to accommodate the spare tire

Alternatively, you can use the stock cable and under mount it

Here's the camera location and rack system I built. Canopies are about 1/3 extended as I don't have enought room to open all the way. I also have telescoping poles to support the canopies when I put my solar panels on top of them and anchor down in high winds.

 

[mongo]

Fakra are made by Rosenberger
Here is the rear connector info from service.tesla.com

 

[CT_AZ_4x4]

Fakra are made by Rosenberger
Here is the rear connector info from service.tesla.com

Man, thank you.

 

[CT_AZ_4x4]

The connectors are FAKRA. They come in various keying, but Z is universal. Amazon carries a bunch of male-female extension cables.





Alternatively, you can use the stock cable and under mount it

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[mongo]

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Make him buy you a steak Mongo!

 

[CT_AZ_4x4]

Make him buy you a steak Mongo!

Steak or Costco hotdogs, whatever you like, Mongo!

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