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campincory
Explorer
Oct 23, 2013

7 pin connector

My trailer lights are malfunctioning. When my head lights are on the trailer lights are very dim. When I hit the breaks the rear lights on the trailer go off. When I turn on the left blinker the right lights blink. When I turn on the right blinker the left lights blink. I am not good at troubleshooting electrical issues. Help!
  • wa8yxm's avatar
    wa8yxm
    Explorer III
    Bipeflier wrote:
    You have a bad ground connection somewhere. Check, clean until you find it. Start with the connection to the tow vehicle and work from there.


    I will second that and add to it.

    One of the things that concerns me is the size of the wire used for the ground, I feel it may be a tad "Anemic" as it were.

    but check the grounds both on the motor home (That is where MY rig had a problem) and on the towed ends of the hookup.

    In my case they "converted" the flat 4 my MH came with to a 6 pin as part of the Remco LP-1 Lube pump install on my towed.

    The conversion used a connector similar to a "Scotch Lock" which slices through the insulation and knife edges to the wire.. Though it can handle the current for stop/tail/turn lights, it can not handle all of them together.. So I bypassed it by soldering on some more ground and tying it to a good frame bolt nearby.

    One SOLID hookup.

    My problme was feedback killing my cruse control and left turn signal it was that bad.. Works great now.
  • X7 on bad ground. That is the culprit 80% of the time when trailer lights malfunction.
  • You can get one of these,

    http://www.amazon.com/Tekonsha-6562-Trailer-Emulator-Display/dp/B004BCA9B8

    but always check your ground first when having DC problems… it sounds like you might have two problems… a bad ground and some miss-wiring…

    you should look here maybe…

    http://www.etrailer.com/faq-wiring.aspx
  • sounds like a bad ground, try running a separate ground from coach to trailer, make sure that the new ground is to bare metal on both rigs.........
  • You have a bad ground connection somewhere. Check, clean until you find it. Start with the connection to the tow vehicle and work from there.

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