Adding Back - Up lights

Both of our last 2 trailers had back up lights...Komfort and now the Arctic Fox with LED's.

Honestly, they aren't much help. They do tell others that you are in reverse, but as far as lighting up the area behind you while you say, back into a site...not great.

very few trailers have bu lights, shame actually

I installed them on a previous trailer, haven't done the new one yet

I just installed to inexpensive so called "driving lights" and ran them from the yellow wire through a relay mounted on the tongue. power for the bu lights actually comes from the trailer battery. the relay is energized by a feed from the truck's bu lights via the yellow spare wire

my thinking was that the trucks bu light system wouldn't be adequate to feed 2 high wattage lights on the trailer

bu lights are great for two reasons, seeing when backing after dark and a warning to other drivers especially in gas stations

ChooChooMan74 wrote:
Do any trailers come with them??? Maybe a few high end ones.

wondering about that myself. don't remember seeing any on the back of my tT. bumpy

ChooChooMan74 wrote:
Do any trailers come with them??? Maybe a few high end ones.

Toy haulers have loading lights on the back. Not quite the same in that you have to flip them on manually, but they work quite well for backing up.

Funny thing is my horse trailer has both back up lights and loading lights. I wasn't even aware they made trailers with backup lights until I bought it.

Sorry double post.

Vintage465 wrote:
I can't hardly believe my trailer came with out back up lights! I'm going to intercept the Yellow Wire in my 7 wire cord where it goes into the trailer. Then I am running some 1/2" EMT from the front of the trailer to the back and then split it off through a box and feed a couple of LED work lights. Hopefully this will make it better when we arrive at campgrounds after dark.

One other thing that will help is to block the tail/brake/back-up lights with a towel or anything on the drivers side of TV too. This has helped me to back down my 100' plus driveway at night even with out lights on the 5er.

I had a set of fog lights wired up when I first bought my RV. They are wired so they are off, on, or on with reverse. Really helps when backing up at night.

Do any trailers come with them??? Maybe a few high end ones.