Charging Toad battery with 4-wire harness?
I just posted a comment to the "charge lead from motorhome to toed" topic, and it got me thinking.
I belive that the 4-wire harness has conductors for ground, tail lights, left stop/brake, and right stop/brake.
Now, suppose:
At the toad end of the 4-wire harness, you splice a wire to the tail lights conductor, then connect it to a diode (oriented to allow the current to flow from the tail lights conductor), then through a 10amp fuse then to the positive battery terminal.
When driving with the running/parking lights switched ON, current would flow from the tow vehicle alternator/battery - through the tail lights conductor, through the diode and fuse, and into the positive terminal of the battery to keep it charged up. Of course, the toad tail lights would also be on.
Does that make sense?
I belive that the 4-wire harness has conductors for ground, tail lights, left stop/brake, and right stop/brake.
Now, suppose:
At the toad end of the 4-wire harness, you splice a wire to the tail lights conductor, then connect it to a diode (oriented to allow the current to flow from the tail lights conductor), then through a 10amp fuse then to the positive battery terminal.
When driving with the running/parking lights switched ON, current would flow from the tow vehicle alternator/battery - through the tail lights conductor, through the diode and fuse, and into the positive terminal of the battery to keep it charged up. Of course, the toad tail lights would also be on.
Does that make sense?
