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08-04-2013, 11:03 AM
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Junior Member
Name: Val
Trailer: 1973 boler.
Manitoba
Posts: 1
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Trying to install new LED tail lights on Boler 1973
Can anyone help. Hubby willing to install new LED taillights on my Boler. Old tail lights working, but as soon as he hooks new ones up they won't work. New LED's bought at Princess Auto, Have three wires on them, white (ground) red and black. Can anyone shed some light?
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08-04-2013, 11:16 AM
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Senior Member
Trailer: 1988 16 ft Scamp Deluxe
Posts: 25,697
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Hi Val, to FiberglassRV, we're glad you're here
There are lots of kind and helpful folks here on the forums. I'm sure someone will be along shortly to answer your questions.
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Ten Forward - 2014 Escape 5.0 TA
Double Yolk - 1988 16' Scamp Deluxe
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08-04-2013, 11:24 AM
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Senior Member
Trailer: 1972 Boler American and 1979 Trillium 4500
Posts: 5,137
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Don't know if this is the right word, but I consider LED's to be polarized. That is you have to get the + and - in the right order for them to work. Test the lights off the trailer to see what wires need to be connected to which. The lights were not designed for trailers so white may not be ground, black might be like in the tow vehicle.
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08-04-2013, 12:24 PM
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Senior Member
Name: Carl
Trailer: 2013 Lil Snoozy #161 (SOLD)/2010 Tacoma
NE Oklahoma
Posts: 2,358
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Welcome, welcome, welcome Val.
And what Roy said........
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08-05-2013, 01:00 PM
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Senior Member
Name: Slavomir
Trailer: 1978 Boler
Washington
Posts: 275
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Hi Val,
Have a look at these lights from etrailer, there is a video and a transcript of it at the bottom of the page that talks about the wire colors. Link is here.
Best,
Slav
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08-05-2013, 09:32 PM
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Senior Member
Name: Randy
Trailer: 1980Trillium 1300
Ontario
Posts: 373
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The following photo is LED tail light from Princess Auto and I hooked up by myself. It works perfectly and beautiful in the dark. Because it has only 3 leads from each light, so it is not hard to figure it out. My suggestion is let the tail light power on, either hook up with your towing vehicle or using extra 12VDC power supply and feed in at right terminal of your receiver harness then from there you can play with it until it is right...
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08-05-2013, 09:40 PM
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Senior Member
Trailer: Scamp
Posts: 7,056
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As said the white might not be the negative (ground) wire. Three wires is correct, 1 negative, 1 for tail lights and 1 for brake/turn signal. LED are polarized the negative has to go to the correct wire. My guess since the trail light are automotive wiring the negative would be black, the red would be the tail lights and the white brake/turn lights. With cheap voltmeter it's easy to check.
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Byron & Anne enjoying the everyday Saturday thing.
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08-15-2013, 02:21 PM
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Member
Name: Kent
Trailer: 1974 1300 Boler
Manitoba
Posts: 97
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The black wire is the ground, not the white wire.
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1974 Boler 1300
Manufactured in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
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08-15-2013, 05:21 PM
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Member
Name: Doug
Trailer: Trillium
Ontario
Posts: 64
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This may be helpful
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08-15-2013, 05:38 PM
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Senior Member
Name: Chuck
Trailer: tp
Washington
Posts: 649
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led tail light
Quote:
Originally Posted by Boler Newbie
Can anyone help. Hubby willing to install new LED taillights on my Boler. Old tail lights working, but as soon as he hooks new ones up they won't work. New LED's bought at Princess Auto, Have three wires on them, white (ground) red and black. Can anyone shed some light?
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Hi White is ground,Red is turn and Black is tail light.
Chuck
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08-15-2013, 05:44 PM
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Member
Name: Kent
Trailer: 1974 1300 Boler
Manitoba
Posts: 97
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Quote:
Originally Posted by jkmboler
The black wire is the ground, not the white wire.
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The OP said "New LED's bought at Princess Auto, Have three wires on them, white (ground) red and black". So, assuming the OP correctly connected the tail lights using the white wire as ground, and in reference to the LED tail light the OP purchased at Princess Auto, the white wire on the LED tail light cannot not be ground. So most logical suggestion is the black wire is ground.
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1974 Boler 1300
Manufactured in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
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09-10-2013, 11:08 AM
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Junior Member
Name: Chantal
Trailer: 1977 Honey Boler
Manitoba
Posts: 5
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I am having the same problem with my LED taillights. I would run outside and check this out right now, but my Boler is parked at my parents place! Thanks for the info! Great stuff.
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09-10-2013, 02:37 PM
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Senior Member
Name: andrew
Trailer: 17 boler
Ontario
Posts: 144
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i bough some lights from princess auto round leds, the white was ground.
If you look on the back of the light were the wires come out, its marked on the plastic what each wire is, on my light it was faint but it was there
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09-12-2013, 07:17 PM
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Junior Member
Name: Stephane
Trailer: U-Haul
Quebec
Posts: 18
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LED light replacement for brakes can be tricky depending on the LED system, if its sort of replacing existing classic incandescent bulbs with LED bulbs, chances are it will never work as they don't draw enough current from the "black box" from the tail light conversion your car has.
You can read regular warnings such as "LED replacements may cause problems with “bulb out” indicators or signal flashers because of their low power draw. Do not mix LED and incandescent bulbs on the same circuit."
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09-12-2013, 07:40 PM
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Commercial Member
Name: Mike
Trailer: Boler13/trillium4500/buro13
Ontario
Posts: 1,138
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I've installed the LEDs from princess auto on 6 trailers the white is always the ground . When you tried the lights was the hitch and tounge hooked up some won't work unless hooked up.
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09-13-2013, 03:16 PM
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Member
Name: Doug
Trailer: Trillium
Ontario
Posts: 64
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My trailer has LED lights retrofitted into the original housing, the other marker lights are still incandescent builds, works great.
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