Since having to shoo some people from behind my van in Cornwall last year whilst I was trying to turn in a very busy and touristy car park, I decided that what I needed was one of those beepers that you hear when delivery vans are reversing.
I saw them on Ebay, studied them, and thought about them, but today I went looking and found one in a local Motor Electric outfit not far from me.
It came in the shape of a bulb which you just insert after removing your existing bulb, easy. But after inserting it and selecting reverse, it lit but would not beep, not a sound. Took it back and the very helpful guy put it on a battery and it beeped without any problem. After a bit of head scratching when I explained that it was just a new van he said "where was it made" when I told him France he quickly said "wired the wrong way, they just stick wires in and a bulb will light either way but the beeper requires the live to the live in order to work, go home and change the wires around and it will work" He was right! so if any of you have a similar problem, now you know how to correct it. And yes, the beeper works great, not loud enough to annoy anyone on a campsite, but loud enough to get people to move.
I saw them on Ebay, studied them, and thought about them, but today I went looking and found one in a local Motor Electric outfit not far from me.
It came in the shape of a bulb which you just insert after removing your existing bulb, easy. But after inserting it and selecting reverse, it lit but would not beep, not a sound. Took it back and the very helpful guy put it on a battery and it beeped without any problem. After a bit of head scratching when I explained that it was just a new van he said "where was it made" when I told him France he quickly said "wired the wrong way, they just stick wires in and a bulb will light either way but the beeper requires the live to the live in order to work, go home and change the wires around and it will work" He was right! so if any of you have a similar problem, now you know how to correct it. And yes, the beeper works great, not loud enough to annoy anyone on a campsite, but loud enough to get people to move.