wishihad1
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- charlottesville, VA
Hey everybody
Well I got these lights all wired up a couple weeks ago, and everything I thought went perfect. Heat shrunk all the connections, did a real nice wiring job I thought. Went to check everything at the End, and all works perfect except for the Brake lights. And its really weird.
I used a Tow ready trailer converter, and Ill do my best to explain what Ive done.
Ill start with simple.
On the To vehicle side, I ran the Ground straight into the factory Ground on the driver side.
Left turn signal, into left on the wiring harness.
for right turn signal, I went to pass side, and ran a wire across the rear to the trailer box.
Tail light, I just picked up the driverside tail, and then spliced into it after the box to run a tail to each side.
Stop, I picked up on the brake wire on the driverside,
on the To trailer side, I pretty much followed the same directions.
I Ran the ground on the Driver side into wire which says ground on the box
Tail comes out as one wire, so i spliced a wire into it, and ran to each side
and brake/signal were ran accordingly to each light
Now heres what I'm getting, and it blows my mind.
signals, work perfect
tail lights, great.
Hazard lights perfect
Brake lights, I get 4 LEDs in the center of the lights which come on extremely dim. like dim enough that it has to be lights out in the garage to see them.
But, Flasher, and Brake run through the same wire. I checked with a multimeter at the pigtail directly at the light. the flashers send 12 volts. the when the brakes applied, same 12 volts. flashers are bright as all get out....brakes pretty much Nada.
I think there may be a ground issue possibly, because when I stick my multimeter into the brake light hole, and ground, i get 12 volts
when I stick the multimeter into the brake light hole, and tail, I also get 12 volts.
anybody?
Well I got these lights all wired up a couple weeks ago, and everything I thought went perfect. Heat shrunk all the connections, did a real nice wiring job I thought. Went to check everything at the End, and all works perfect except for the Brake lights. And its really weird.
I used a Tow ready trailer converter, and Ill do my best to explain what Ive done.
Ill start with simple.
On the To vehicle side, I ran the Ground straight into the factory Ground on the driver side.
Left turn signal, into left on the wiring harness.
for right turn signal, I went to pass side, and ran a wire across the rear to the trailer box.
Tail light, I just picked up the driverside tail, and then spliced into it after the box to run a tail to each side.
Stop, I picked up on the brake wire on the driverside,
on the To trailer side, I pretty much followed the same directions.
I Ran the ground on the Driver side into wire which says ground on the box
Tail comes out as one wire, so i spliced a wire into it, and ran to each side
and brake/signal were ran accordingly to each light
Now heres what I'm getting, and it blows my mind.
signals, work perfect
tail lights, great.
Hazard lights perfect
Brake lights, I get 4 LEDs in the center of the lights which come on extremely dim. like dim enough that it has to be lights out in the garage to see them.
But, Flasher, and Brake run through the same wire. I checked with a multimeter at the pigtail directly at the light. the flashers send 12 volts. the when the brakes applied, same 12 volts. flashers are bright as all get out....brakes pretty much Nada.
I think there may be a ground issue possibly, because when I stick my multimeter into the brake light hole, and ground, i get 12 volts
when I stick the multimeter into the brake light hole, and tail, I also get 12 volts.
anybody?
