Foretravel Owners' Forum For owners and Fans of Foretravel Motorcoaches September 10, 2025 ...

1.Speaking of white wires, the fuse/breaker panel on the passenger side, is powered by the coach batteries, correct?
2.Some of these are powered, some are not. Not sure why.
3.What exactly are these?
4.Don't seem to be a fuse, or a circuit breaker as there is not way to reset it.

1. what's the best way to tap into the ignition switch, or do I really need to do that?

2. Also need to tap into the right turn signal for a camera. Anyone know of the best way to do that.

1. In-dash head units normally require 2 sources of 12 volt power.  One is "always hot" - to retain memory settings and power the clock.  The other is "hot with ignition switch ON (or in accessory position)" - to turn on the unit on.  You don't have to actually hook the leads directly to the ignition switch - you just need to find a source for the appropriate power.  There should be both power types available on the panel in your photo.  Easy to determine what is what using a multimeter or a simple 12 volt test light.

2.  Easiest place to find the power going to turn signals is the wire harness right behind the actual turn signal bulbs.  Where does the camera mount?  You have turn signal repeater lights on your mirror bases and on the side of the coach.  Tap into the wires going to the light bulb closest to the camera.

Bob,
1. Some of the busses are fed from coach house batteries some are fed from starting batteries.
2. Depends on what needs power when the ignition switch is on or when it is off.
3. Some are self resetting fuses, some are relays, and the 2 black boxes at the center of the bottom of the panel are your ignition solenoids . Your coach is new enough to have the new solid state style that the load is split through 2 rather than just one. The 2 little blue cubes that are hanging by there wires are your turn signal and your emergency 4 way flasher relays.
4. See # 3.
5. The breakers that are located in the basement behind the white safety cover panel are manual reset with a button on those.
6. If your coach has the door lock/ security system seems like that may be what the  "transmitter 3 unp" box was for. Not for sure about this though.
You need to get a copy of a B-2197 print for your coach as it has all the info on this breaker panel. This is a must to help with troublshooting. The basement breakers are on B-2126 also a good thing to round up.
 Mike

The pioneer states that the head unit requires hooking up to the ignition switch power. Do you know why that is? I assume its to keep the battery from drawing down...

Agree.  If you want to be able to use the radio when parked, hook both memory and "run" hots to the house battery bank.

You definitely don't want to have to turn on the ignition to power the radio while parked.  Would really pile up the hours on the engine hour meter.

Also have a question about the item labeled "transmitter 3 unp" Any clue what this is? Has a wire dangling from it like a antenna.
Thanks for your time and knowledge.
Bob

Wouldn't hooking the camera to the wires at the turn signal light cause camera issues as the wire to the light is alternating on and off power?

Probably tapping into line between turn signal lever and turn signal relay, [blinker] would give you steady power for camera when turning, think it would be easier.

Hi Bob, The dangling antenna on ours was from the RF unit for the auto door locks. Not all of ours worked when we got coach. Had several bad actuators on the storage bay latches. No biggie to replaced them and upgrade to a newer RF unit with new key fob remotes. Nice having the feature but not perfect because they don't operate the door latch. Only the deadbolt and the storage bays have automatic locks on our U270. Not sure if this is normal, could be because my second door for wheelchair lift also has deadbolt on auto lock. I believe the OEM RF unit only had two channels. So does our replacement.

You probably don't need em. I do. Can't reach the deadbolt lock with key. Use the remote a lot.

Hope you can get wiring diagrams from FT. All our white wires have numbers on stamped them and they are keyed to the diagrams. Hope yours do too.

The Pioneer head unit has a input for a camera that can be used as a rear or side cam. I am thinking of using it for a dedicated passenger side cam that would turn on with the right turn signal on. The power signal would signal the unit to switch to the camera mode.

I did hook up the unit to a ignition on area of the 12v buss. The other always on came from the previous stereo, to power the clock and memory. I can easily swap it to a always on buss if needed. The amp will be wired to the house bank with a large fuse and wire. Will post pics when finished. Thanks for all your ideas.  Much appreciated.
Bob

I too installed a Pioneer with a camera input. It has a touch screen with a touch camera input button.
I just wired the camera on with ignition so side camera is alway on, radio, cd, work fine with camera on.
I have a separate back up camera and screen though.