Re: [SilverStreak] To wire a 6 pin round plugs

["Keneth Wilson" <ke5dfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The diagram in my 70 SS for the Bargman plug was different from the current
usage.  When we got the trialer, I had to rewire the trailer side plug to
match my tow vehicle.  Somewhere along the way, the pins were used
differently.
With any older RV, it is best to check the wiring pins to see if
they will match your tow vehicle.
When you describe the pins below, are you
looking into the male plug or the female recepticule?  Need to note where you
are looking.
 Ken Wilson 
KE5DFR@sbcglobal.net 
Cypress, Texas



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Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 9:56:01 AM
Subject: Re:
[SilverStreak] To wire a 6 pin round plugs

I've recently had to rewire
several seven wire plugs and have conferred  with 
several local RV dealers. 
They all concur that the standard wiring is  (as 
viewed from the top of the
plug looking at it):  at 1:00 o'clock -  black wire 
for battery charging, at
3:00 o'clock -  brown wire for  right turn/stop 
light, at 5:00 o'clock - blue
wire for trailer brakes, at 7:00  o'clock - white 
wire for ground, at 9:00
o'clock - red wire for left turn  signal/stop light, at 
11:00 o'clock green
wire - tail/running lights, and the  center plug - yellow 
for auxiliary/back
up lights.  This seems to be  somewhat different from 
others comments so hope
i'm not adding to the confusion  but it does seems to be a 
current industry
standard for my area.  best  regards, jim


In a message dated 5/25/2008
8:18:02 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
joepatwink@netscape.net writes:

Al,? 
Thanks for the info on wiring. My plug follows the description, white is 
ground and yellow is left turn etc. but I am getting thrown off by the fact 
that 
on some drawings the ground is on the upper pin on the drivers side on 
the 
vehicle and in other drawings it is on the upper pin on the passenger 
side. If 
you wire the vehicle according to the one drawing and your trailer
to  the 
other you wire brakes to ground. Maybe some people didn't understand
that  the 
plug and the sockets are mirror images of each other. 
? The other 
thing that that threw me is that the plug on the truck, and its 
a chevy, had 
the 12V wire put in the center like it should be, but there was 
not juice to 
it. It is colored red, as per the wiring instructions that come 
in the
booklet  in the glove box. Any idea on what I need to go to get juice 
to it,
is there a  fuse in the fuse box or something?

? Thanks for you  help.

Joe
(Original Message)
Unfortunately there is no actual  standard for connector
wiring.
Usually the seventh connection in a 7 pole  connector is used for
back-up 
lights 
on the trailer.
Look at 
www.rverscorner.com/wiring/6pole.html .
Everything I have seen is according 
to the ASME color code. I've never seen 
anything wired according to the  "RV"
color code.
ASME:
White - Ground
Brown - Tail &  marker
Green - Right
turn/brake
Yellow - Left turn/brake
Blue -  Electric brake
Black - +12VDC
power/trailer battery charge

This  coincides with what is usually found on GM
vehicles.
I've never seen a 7  pole Bargman/Pollak connector wired according
to the 
code 
molded on the  plugs and receptacles.
My SS had an obsolete gray
plastic round pin plug  that sort of mated with a 
freight truck receptacle.
The plug wasn't long  enough to go all the way into 
the 
metal receptacle.
The metal plug would  go into the gray plastic receptacle. 
The 
wiring order
was all  different.
Al