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Re: Trailer wire short
[Re: Mike Keenan]
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12/13/17 03:04 PM
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Jones Trolling Motor
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As I said earlier, it's his port side signal/brake light. that is the yellow wire. It shouldn't be connected to any side lights, just a straight wire from front connection to light. Pull a new wire is less time than trying to redo splices that will cause problems again.
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Re: Trailer wire short
[Re: Mike Keenan]
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12/13/17 03:48 PM
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Bob Landry
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If you aren't proficient at troubleshooting electrical problems hire someone to run a new wiring harness. You will be money and time ahead. They are cheap and it's about a hour job. Once you begin having to track down bad connections and splices on trailer wiring, it goes downhill from there and unless you know what you are doing, you will end up with worse than what you have now.
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Re: Trailer wire short
[Re: Bob Landry]
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12/23/17 08:26 PM
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Mike Keenan
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Im actually considering taking it to Uhaul and have them run new wires and install of my new LED lights. I found a bunch of Optronics LEDs on amazon cheap. Ive been hit once from behind pulling my last boat, so I figure a bunch of LED lights will help stop that.
R.I.P. Mike "pappy" "broken rod" Green born 07-16-62 on to better fishing 06-10-08. www.basscat.com
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Re: Trailer wire short
[Re: Mike Keenan]
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12/25/17 02:26 AM
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Mike Keenan
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Ok well I try to live life by K.I.S.S..... keep it simple stupid... tonight Im installing my new LEDs to my trailer and I see to wires unplugged / broken, well 2 + 2 = 4, splice both wires back together and its alive.
All is good again, thanks for all the help guys
R.I.P. Mike "pappy" "broken rod" Green born 07-16-62 on to better fishing 06-10-08. www.basscat.com
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Re: Trailer wire short
[Re: Mike Keenan]
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12/26/17 12:47 AM
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H2ODawg67
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Ok well I try to live life by K.I.S.S..... keep it simple stupid... tonight Im installing my new LEDs to my trailer and I see to wires unplugged / broken, well 2 + 2 = 4, splice both wires back together and its alive.
All is good again, thanks for all the help guys Glad you got it going Mike. For future reference or anyone else having problems like you had is checking (if you have the sealed oval lights) is check the connection on the back of the light fixture itself. The connectors are thin brass that has a slit in it (for spring tension effect), sometimes these can get spread out and not make contact with the plug itself. You have to get a pair of needle nose in there and squeeze it together be careful though, like I said they are thin brass.
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