This has been an amazing thread, start to finish, and some amazing engineering and reverse engineering!
I have a 2024 3500 on order, waiting for a train out of Saltillo. I ordered every bell and whistle for DRVM and wired trailer camera (XN1 + XH7). I have a 34' travel trailer. I have read the PDF regarding the camera changeover from 2022 to 2023+. And I have tried scanning the web for pictures of the kit, lengths of the cables, and shapes/dimensions of the connectors.
What I want to do is simply route, with as little extra cable as possible, from the truck bumper to the back of my travel trailer, and up high. The trailer run is easy, I can follow the propane gas line to the rear along the camp side. Now once at the back, I want to feed the final portion of the cable up through the ladder tubing (mine is 3/4" square tubing) as a conduit, OR just tightly couple some conduit to the ladder. My father in law and I can design an extremely stable mount from there that minimuzes vibration.
So here are my questions:
1) What are the exact max dimensions of the final cable end (fakra jack end I assume, not plug end?) that connects to the camera? The best info I can find seems to be the jack end is max ~14mm (~0.55 inch). The inside of 3/4" square tubing may be 5/8" or 0.625". That is cutting it close but it MIGHT work as a conduit! I'm hopeful, or I may need to just order 1" tubing and have a slight eyesore running along the ladder.
2) I saw a post earlier that the repeater might be *required*? I would love to just use the 57' cable without a repeater, as 75' really forces me to tie up and secure a lot of slack.
This is the ladder at the back. The vertical members are straight 3/4" tube with a plastic plug at top and bottom - perfect conduit potential.