Re: Skip's trailer plugging away

["Ed Sohm" <idaemes@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> Just do a workmanlike job of the wiring and follow the convention for
> wiring the plug please. I have to re-do the plug on a friend's horse
> trailer every time we borrow it 'cause some 'professional' hitch installer
> decided that the center terminal on a 6-way was for the trailer
> brakes(should be trailer acc. power). Guess I better re-wire her truck one
> of these decades....
>
> Avoid the scab-on connectors like the plague!
>
> Kudos for running 7-way, they're a more durable long term design than
6-way.
>
> Jim
>

Jim,

There are people out there who purposely wire their trailers wrong so other
people can't borrow their trailers.  Does your neighbor really want you
borrowing their trailer <G> Kinda cynical, I know.  My little brother uses a
plug off of a tractor on his travel trailer.  I think he did it as much for
cost reasons as anything. I don't know what it was used for, controling a
planter or something. He is a tractor mechanic so that is what he has laying
around. Yes, mine are wired correctly, but I considered a lunette eye /
pintle hitch for a while.

I was debating the switch to 7 way RV style the other day.  Everything I own
is 6 way, well except one flat 4, and I have the converter plug that is 6
round male to 4 flat  female so I could pull everything until a friend
bought a horse trailer with the RV plug.  The other option would be to make
a converter from 6 male -7 female, I've never seen one you can buy.

You just helped me make my decision.  I hadn't really thought about which
was a better design, but I agree now that you have said it. You can even get
RV 7 way females that also have a flat 4 on them.  Get a converter from 7-6
and I am set without having to redo my trailers right away.  I  need to find
one of those tractor plugs to fake-mount just to razz my brother


Ed