Subject: Re: [a/s] Running Lights Question
Date: Sat, 06 Mar 1999 10:22:26 -0500
From: Jim Dunmyer <jdunmyer@toltbbs.com>
Reply-To: airstream@airstream.net

Charlie/Betty Burke wrote:

> The charge line is a continuous circuit from charge line in tow vehicle to
> battery in trailer. So yes the blue wire is hot when you are on shore power.

Charlie,
Maybe, maybe not. Although it NOW is in my Airstream, it wasn't that way when it came from the factory. It used to have a low-voltage cutoff relay that would disconnect the trailer from the vehicle charge line to prevent draining the vehicle battery. To get the relay closed again required starting the
vehicle and getting the voltage over 13.5 or so.

I have no idea how many Airstreams used that outfit or if they maybe still do, but trailers that have it would have to have a bypass switch or something installed.
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