Hi;
I am a new member from Orofino Idaho and I just acquired an old
Airstream 22' trailer ( 1963) and am having trouble figuring out the
wiring. The trailer has a 6 prong plug and appears to have the wires
properly attached to the plug, that is , I checked continuity with the
lights and the pins and they appear to located on the proper pins. However,
when I plugged in my truck the brake lights and left and right turn
signals worked, but even when the truck lights were off the stop lights on
the truck came on.
After I got the trailer home I checked the pins and found that the
stop light pin was hot with 12 volts from the onboard battery. I thought
that maybe the breakaway switch was the problem so I disconnected it and
still found 12 volts on the stop light pin. I left the pin out of the
breakaway switch and found that the battery had been run down completely by
the next morning, so I think that that indicates the brakaway switch is
allright.
Incidentaly with the stop light pin hot (12 volts) I would have
thought that the stop lights would come on,( on the trailer) but that
wasn't the case.
By the way I didn't have a controller for the brakes when I brought
the trailer home so am not sure the brakes are working.
I don't think that the stop light pin on the trailer should be hot
and don't know how that could happen. The previous owner claims no
problems, if so then, something must have just happened or else this is
proper.
Can anybody give me some advice on the proper wiring of this small
old triler and hopefully give me some pointers as to how to solve this
problem.
Sincerely;
George Moore