The Silver Streak E-mail ListArchive Files[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [SilverStreak] To wire a 6 pin round plugs
Hi Ken, thanks for the added thoughts. I have three towing vehicles and five trailers and needed to make everything compatible. The wiring information that i shared is looking at the male fixtures on my towing vehicles. i completely rewired three trailers (horse, flatbed, and stock) using the seven-ply wiring harness wire. The wiring on my 1958 Silver Streak was wire by wire, function by function matched at the female plug as the original colored wiring was not exactly the same (some with stripes, etc.). jim cooper _msc06usnret@aol.com_ (mailto:msc06usnret@aol.com) Ramona, CA In a message dated 5/28/2008 9:37:53 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, ke5dfr@sbcglobal.net writes: The diagram in my 70 SS for the Bargman plug was different from the current usage. When we got the trailer, 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 receptacle? Need to note where you are looking. Ken Wilson KE5DFR@sbcglobal.net Cypress, Texas ----- Original Message ---- From: "MSC06USNret@aol.com" <MSC06USNret@aol.com> To: sslist@tompatterson.com 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
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