Easy Mod to Make Your Trailer Glow
This is how you have your trailer's clearance lights turn on when you are parked and disconnected from the tow vehicle. I also posted this elsewhere.
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gbopp wrote:
Okay. Why?
They often do this at RV shows to make the campers sparkle a bit more with razzle and dazzle. Manufacturers and dealers will also put an automotive "flasher" in those same two holes on the camper plug to make the running lights flash on and off.
The flashing running lights when not hooked up to a tow vehicle has at least one good application - in the event you are on the side of the road, and have to drop the trailer and leave it because of breakdown. The running lights on the camper will flash like 4-way flashers.
I learned this little trick many, many years go, and used the flasher on several occasions for 4th of July camping and a couple times to annoy neighbor campers when they insisted on leaving their flood lights on after dark. (and it worked too).
Haven't used the "flasher" in several years now, but I still have it in my RV camping goodie repair stuff bag tucked under the bed in the event I get the "mood" again.
I have seen on many occasions, RVers having their running lights on with this method while camping. I think folks do it when they first learn this can be done and it's kind of nostalgic for them. After it wears off, they quite doing it. I kind of enjoy seeing campers with their running lights agow, because I know these folks probably just discovered this little trick and are all excited about it. I simply enjoy their joy! It makes camping so much nicer.
