Toyota: Tundra trailer connector power?

Hello,

Does anybody know if the 4 pin trailer connector requires an attitional wire
to be run from the battery to operate? Who knows? Please!!!

Best regards,

RG

On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 01:09:31 GMT, someone who calls themselves MDT
Tech® <com> wrote: 
 

To be a bit more accurate:
White Ground
Yellow Combination Stop/Left Turn
Green Combination Stop/Right Turn
Brown Tail/Marker

If you need a converter to go from the three-wire system on your
Toyota (Stop, Left Turn, Right Turn) to the 2-wire trailer (Stop/Left
and Stop/Right) on a standard American trailer there are two kinds.
The passive converters do not need any external power, but they give
you rather dim trailer lights. The power has to go through
transistors and diodes in the converter, and you drop a volt or so in
the process.

The active converters do require you to run a fused power feed lead
from the battery to the converter, but with an active converter your
trailer lights are always at full brightness. Much better for daytime
stoplight visibility.

I prefer to rewire the trailer to the three-wire system, it's a
little more work but then it plugs right in and works on any tow
vehicle without needing any modifications or converters. Usually you
have to add a second set of stop lights on the trailer to be the Stop
Lights. Run another wire up to the tongue, and wire them to the Stop
lead on the 6-wire or 7-wire round commercial connector. If the tow
vehicle uses the American system, the new lights don't do anything.

--<< Bruce >>--
--
Bruce L. Bergman, POB 394, Woodland Hills CA 91365, USA
Electrician, Westend Electric (#726700) Agoura, CA

WARNING: UCE Spam E-mail is not welcome here. I report violators.
SpamBlock In Use - Remove the "Python" with a "net" to E-Mail.