Battery and Power Problems
I have a 2012 Grey Wolf by Forester. Was having some problems with electrical as battery was going bad. Put a new battery on and now everything works fine as long as power is plugged in, but if power ...
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RRM63 wrote:
Man you guys are great. Thanks for all your help. I now have several things to try. Two quick questions, my new battery could be hooked up wrong, as memory serves me there is a white and a red (faded pink) wire and I probably have the pink as positive. Also, if the battery is hooked up backwards would the tongue jack still work?
Thanks, Rick
I think you have the battery hooked up correctly.
Check both wires, for location of where they connect to the trailer. The one that goes directly (I would suspect the white one) to the trailer frame, is the ground (negative). The wire going to a short stop breaker, or, into a junction box (I would suspect the red one), is the hot (positive) wire. Positive / hot wire should also have an inline fuse.
It is common to see Red - Positive and white - negative.
If the polarity is reversed, your tongue jack would still run, but, it would operate in reverse. IE the up button would make it go down, the down button would make it go up. You would likely, also have some blown fuses.
When you find and fix the problem, please lets us know, what it was.
