MATAATX wrote:
GREETINGS, I'M NEW TO THIS FORUM. I JUST PURCHASED MY FIRST TRAVEL TRAILER, ITS A 2006 HR SAVOY LX FKD32. I BOUGHT IT FROM A LADY WHO HAD TO SELL IT BECAUSE SHE HAD BOUGHT IT FOR HER SON AND HE IS NOW IN PRISON. AFTER THOROUGHLY CLEANING THE CAMPER I AM CONVINCED HER SON IS IN JAIL DUE TO DRUGS, I'LL LEAVE IT AT THAT.
MY FIRST ISSUE IS THAT I FOUND WIRES THAT ARE NOT CONNECTED TO ANYTHING JUST HANGING RIGHT WHERE THE BATTERY IS. THERE IS A TOTAL OF 4 WIRES, 1-RED ABOUT 12AWG,1-RED ABOUT 8-10AWG, 1-WHITE ABOUT 12AWG,1-WHITE ABOUT 8-10AWG. I HAVE ONLY POWERED THE CAMPER THROUGH THE BATTERY SO I'M NOT SURE IF EVERYTHING WORKS. WHEN I HOOK UP THE BATTERY ALL MY LIGHTS WORK, MY TANK MONITOR LIGHTS UP, WATER PUMP WORKS AND LIGHTS ON FRIG TURN ON. I DON'T HAVE PROPANE IN THE TANKS SO I HAVEN'T TESTED THE STOVE. THE PREVIOUS OWNER INFORMED ME THAT THE WATER HEATER DID NOT WORK SO I HAVE NOT TESTED THAT EITHER. I HAVE TRIED TO CONTACT THE MANUFACTURER FOR A SERVICE MANUAL OR WIRING DIAGRAM BUT THEY WERE NO HELP AT ALL.
MY QUESTION IS DOES ANYBODY KNOW WHAT THESE WIRES COULD BE FOR?
Can you be a little more specific when you say "just hanging" and how many and what color wires are now actually attached to the battery. A lot of trailers from my reading prior posts several items might be powered directly to the battery like slide outs and electric tongue jacks. So if you were to say have a trailer with two slide outs, I can see potentially like 5 wires going to the + side of the battery, one for each slide out going to separate self setting CBs mounted near the battery and then on to each slide, one for the electric tongue jack but that should be obvious visually if there, and one that will go to another self setting CB mounted in the battery area with it's output going back to the converter and to the vehicle 7pin power connector, and one going to the 7pin vehicle charge ckt.
That white wire should be something to do with the ground and might either be one from the - battery to the frame, or to the 7pin TV ground, etc.
Many trailers have several of these small self setting CBs mounted in the battery/tongue area and a main junction box where some wires from the battery and the 7pin cable goes to and from there to the various TT ckts like lights, brakes, etc. Look around good including the outside floor of the trailer just behind the tongue and see if you can see anything with wires going into it and report back what you find with pics being a great help in identifying what ever you have.
Larry
