Marker light on trailer

[wily]

I found a light to replace It but old light only had one brown wire ran to it...the new one also has a ground wire

trailer has brown wire coming to this marker light...so figure run positive to it...but where should I hook the ground wire?

there is other wires running with the brown one in side the trailer frame...but assume they go on back to the tail lights...

looks to me like the old light only had one wire run to it

can I just wrap the ground around the mounting screw?

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[fishinwrench]

It grounds to the trailer frame. 

 Brown tail light circuit powers it. 

 Make sure that the white wire at the plug (pigtail) is also attached to the trailer frame. Otherwise your ground connection is only through the hitch ball.....and that's no good.

[wily]

So each led light has to be ground separately?

i just drill thru that leaf spring bracket...and attach ground to the screw...right?

im sure the white wire is ground other...non led lights are working...thanks 

[fishinwrench]

You can just put a ring terminal on the ground lead and put it on one of the screws that mount the light to the trailer.  No drilling necessary.

[wily]

Ah shoot...I jumped the gun...you’ve never seen me on jeopardy...but I got it to work

I just got to get the grinder out...and cut the bolt

thank you for helping me

 

[Terrierman]

I've had more trailer light troubles due to bad grounding than I should ever admit to.  One of my favorite problems to fail to remember and jump through all kind of hoops to fix and then put another flat spot on my forehead.

[wily]

This light was original to the trailer and I think the bulb just went out...but it was all one unit...Couldn’t just remove the bulb...and don’t make that style anymore so had to find replacement

im terrible at mechanical stuff but I like to try to fix things myself...That’s a bad combination...without wrenches help...I would be screwed 

Last year on the other trailer...it kept blowing fuses on the truck...was a huge pia 

finally figured out that there was an exposed wire under the winch stand...which was grounding out...drilled a hole thru winch stand when rewired it...so far seems to be working