I too am trying to make trailer lights work ('66 Caravel). Testing with the
wire colors that you sent, and using a 12V battery (table shows wires
connected to the positive and negatives sides of the battery), I'm observing
the following:
Positive / Negative / result
________________________
green / white / nothing
brown / white / nothing
red / white / nothing
brown / black / both L and R flashers light
red / black / both L and R flashers light
green / black / nothing
green / trailer frame / nothing, except circuit tester on the neg side
lights up
brown / trailer frame / nothing, except circuit tester on the neg side
lights up
red / trailer frame / nothing, except circuit tester on the neg side lights
up
>From this I have several questions:
1. it seems that the ground wire (white) is not functional, but it seems
unlikely that each one of these lights would form a poor ground (I've
cleaned bulb contacts). Where does the trailer shell attach to the white
wire?
2. The back up wire (black) seems to light things up, or serve as a ground,
but there are no back up lights for the trailer. (seems confusing). Why is
there a back up circuit?
3. When attaching the green, brown, or red wires to the pos side of the
battery, and the negative side through a circuit tester to the frame, the
circuit tester lights up but not the lights. Any ideas?
In advance, thank you for any help that you can offer! (I'm stymied).
Christian
'66 Caravel
----- Original Message -----
From: "Don Horn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Multiple recipients of VACList" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, May 20, 2001 11:30 AM
Subject: [VAC] Re: 7 Pin Wiring Electrical Connector
>
> For what it's worth, the '65 owner's manual shows these colors for the
leads
> on the trailer side. My '65 Caravel was wired exactly like this, but I
> wouldn't take it as gospel. Over the years, previous owners may have
> rewired the connector using different colors. I suggest you only use this
> as a starting point, and test each lead with a battery before connecting
it
> to the new style connector with standard configuration.
>
> This is the trailer side view of the old the old style connector with 7
> round pins. The groove (or ridge) on the plug housing is between 4 and 3.
> _
> 4 3
> 6 C 5
> 2 1
>
> 1 White--ground
> C Yellow--brake
> 2 Blue--charge line
> 6 Brown--right turn & stop
> 4 Black--backup light
> 3 Green--running lights
> 5 Red--left turn & stop
>
> Don
>
>
>
> > From: "C. Petrich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 10:52:16 -0600
> > To: Multiple recipients of VACList <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Subject: [VAC] Re: 7 Pin Wiring Electrical Connector
> >
> > Here is the connection diagram that our resident electrical engineer
posted
> > recently. It was helpful to me as I am in the middle of replacing the
> > connections on our trailer. Unfortunately, in our case, the wire
colors in
> > the airstream to do not correspond with those of the tow vehicle (which
is
> > the same as those shown below). Matter of fact, some of the wires
weren't
> > connected at all, so it is no wonder that some of the lights didn't
work,
> > and that the running lights blow fuses. Heading outside to try to
determine
> > what goes with what now.
> >
> > Christian
> > '66 Caravel
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Dr. Gerald N. Johnson, electrical engineer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: "Multiple recipients of VACList" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2001 7:37 AM
> > Subject: [VAC] Re: hookup with 6 pin round connector
> >
> >
> >> The attachment, bargman.gif is a drawing of the standard connections
for
> >> the 7 bin connector. Fords with the 7 pin towing package come with
these
> >> connections. Every connector I've bought in the past few years has
> >> included a diagram like this one. Older Airstreams used a different set
> >> of connections but sometimes the same connector. All should be set to
> >> this set of connections so they work with all modern tow vehicles.
> >>
> >> Gerald J.
> >>
> >
> >
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