Trailer Light Problems

[fishinwrench]

There ya have it.

[Ham]

It's almost always a grounding issue, but Istruggle with it more than I should too. I went LED's on the trout boat and will go LEDS when the Bass Cat next gives me issues.

[Guest]

I'm selling this rig as soon as I get it cleaned up.

Couldn't sell it without trailer lights.

I looked at the LEDs when I was at Lowes.

They're not that expensive & probably don't have the issues related to incandescent bulbs.

Im going to install LED lights on my fishing kayak for navigation lights & interior lights, maybe a 200 lumen flashlight could be rigged as a spot light.

[Wayne SW/MO]

Grounding should always be suspected on 12V systems when voltage is present, but finding it can be a problem.

FYI. taking an extension cord and and grounding the ground prong to the vehicle will allow you to use its ground to check for voltage at the lights.

A voltohm meter is right most of the time, but not always. You have to have enough contact to carry the load, all the lights. It doesn't take as much contact for for the meter to read as it does for the lights to work.

[David Unnerstall]

I always run the ground wire to the trailer and never rely on the hitch to ground the trailer. I even wire the ground to the bulb sockets to make sure.

I wholeheartedly agree with this.