[AT] trailer lights

[charlie hill]

Wayne it is the same ground circuit either way you run it.  I was not
talking about running a ground back to the vehicle but back to the trailer
connector and attaching it to the ground wire comming from the connector.
The power going to the trailer lights is fused on the hot side.  Any dead
short regardless of the ground path will blow the fuse on the power circuit.
If you are really worried about that you can fuse the ground circuit with a
lower amp fuse.

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Wayne Snelling" <wsnelling at southplainscollege.edu>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2004 12:57 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] trailer lights


> To each his own. Keep in mind if you do run a ground wire from the
> vehicle to a trailer lights connector, if anything goes wrong on the
> trailer lights you blow the vehicle fuses, lights or even modules. I
> prefer to keep a good connection (ball) between the trailer (not the
> trailer lights) and vehicle and if the trailer lights do a massive short
> then you have a buffer. In fact, if you wire Chevy pickups in that
> manner you are sooner or later going to blow the ABS module in them.
> just my $ 0.02
>
> Wayne
>
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