Trailer lights acting funny

04-17-2009, 03:57 PM	#16
47_47 Member     Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Springville, NY Posts: 1,232	Trailer lights acting funny Quote: Originally Posted by Leah Frances Each side light has two wires going to it. White wire seems to terminate at the ball. If I want to run a separate neutral/ground what would I hook it up to at the light end. Each light has two terminals - where would I attach the white? The ground connection is the lamp housing. I'd put a ring terminal on your new ground wire and put the terminal between the head of the bolt and the housing. Added: Automotive (trailer) wiring is suspect to corrosion. Get the shrink style ring terminals. __________________ What we've got here is... failure to communicate. Some men you just can't reach. So you get what we had here last week, which is the way he wants it... well, he gets it. Last edited by 47_47; 04-17-2009 at 04:02 PM.

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04-17-2009, 04:00 PM	#17
Yoyizit It was a dark and stormy     Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: NW of D.C. Posts: 5,954	Trailer lights acting funny Looks like there are several wiring methods out there http://images.google.com/imgres?imgu...en-us%26um%3D1

04-17-2009, 07:53 PM	#18
Leah Frances Learning by Doing     Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Easton, Maryland Posts: 3,156 Blog Entries: 7	Trailer lights acting funny Cool. I've got a spare spool of brown bell wire I can use to do the neutral/ground. Just kidding. White wire it is! __________________ If I could only remember to THINK about what I was doing before I did it.