Camper pigtail was cut off !!!
Someone cut off the wires that plug into the trucks bumper connection. I have seven wires , how do I figure out how to rewire the plug so I don't burn up the camper and myself along with it? My campe...
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There isn’t a camper wire color standard but there is a 7-pin RV connector plug standard.
You can figure this out, and you won’t fry anything.
One of the heavy gauge wires will be the ground, probably the white one. Run a piece of wire from it to ground on your truck... the bumper, the - side of the battery, wherever.
If you string yourself a long piece of wire from the + side of your battery, you can figure out the other wires. The tail lights will all be the smaller ones. With your ground wire hooked up, touch your + wire to each smaller one and go look at the tail lights. One should light them and all your markers up.
Another should do the left turn, another the right, and another the reverse lamps.
The other larger wire will be the +12v charge wire. There should be a terminal on your trailer connector that has constant +12v. It goes there.
That will be a total of six wires, that’s all of ‘em. The 7th place on the trailer connector is the trailer brake terminal which obviously won’t be used on the camper.
You can look up online which pin should do what on your truck’s connector or you can figure it out pretty much the same way, with a 12v test light. Just see which one has power on and off with each turn signal on... which one has power when the brake pedal is being pressed... which one has power when the running lights are on... and so forth.
You can figure this out, and you won’t fry anything.
One of the heavy gauge wires will be the ground, probably the white one. Run a piece of wire from it to ground on your truck... the bumper, the - side of the battery, wherever.
If you string yourself a long piece of wire from the + side of your battery, you can figure out the other wires. The tail lights will all be the smaller ones. With your ground wire hooked up, touch your + wire to each smaller one and go look at the tail lights. One should light them and all your markers up.
Another should do the left turn, another the right, and another the reverse lamps.
The other larger wire will be the +12v charge wire. There should be a terminal on your trailer connector that has constant +12v. It goes there.
That will be a total of six wires, that’s all of ‘em. The 7th place on the trailer connector is the trailer brake terminal which obviously won’t be used on the camper.
You can look up online which pin should do what on your truck’s connector or you can figure it out pretty much the same way, with a 12v test light. Just see which one has power on and off with each turn signal on... which one has power when the brake pedal is being pressed... which one has power when the running lights are on... and so forth.
