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Originally Posted by David B.
I asked for a label maker for Fathers Day, and now use it to label each wire as positive or negative, and what is connected to it, IE: solar panel, refrigerator, car positive charge wire, etc.
These different colors applied to tow vehicles and trailers can be very confusingl
Dave & Paula
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I have done the same and labeled all the wiring behind the fuse panel so I know what goes to what. Considering I stuck with black and white wires for positive
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Originally Posted by Carol H
Frederick is correct the old round Scamp lights never had back up lights.
Scamp by the way uses two inline fuses - one right off the battery (outside) and the other just inside the house where the wiring harness enters the trailer.
These diagrams are from the manual from my Scamp.
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Thank you so much - I actually used this same wiring diagram I found on bing when searching for "Scamp wiring diagram" and I used it for some of the initial layout.
So yeah, I have a inline 30 amp fuse right off of the battery and I wired another one in line with the trailer harness when it connects up with the battery. Perfect!
I can confirm that it appears my scamp taillights do not have backup lights, so looks like the yellow trailer wire will be unused.
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Originally Posted by Carol H
On the Scamp the battery hook up is + Positive to Black and - Negative to White.
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Yup, figured this out early its wired like a house rather than a car. Black for Power and white for Neutral / ground. I have done a fair amount of wiring in cars so this was a bit confusing initially. Also the fact that the previous owner had wired up red for power and black for ground in some places didn't help.
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Originally Posted by Byron Kinnaman
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Main thing leading this question was the ability to drain the battery flat when your camping. I did some more investigation on this and found that the black (power) should be wired to a relay on the tow vehicle that is also connected to key on power. The goal being that you are not able to pull power from the tow vehicle unless the vehicle is on.
Thanks for sharing the concerns. I don't think it was a complete n00b question but then again... I am new to trailers and totally happy to get schooled on doing it right.