I'm trying to hook up a backup camera and am having issues with finding the backup light wire. My truck is a 2005. I had originally had it on the orange auxiliary wire and I could turn on the backup camera, but it wasn't triggered when truck went into reverse (duh). So I looked up the diagrams and from all that I can find it is the center post of the connector, which is a black/pink wire. Can anyone confirm this?

I hooked the trigger wire to this black/pink, and it says there isn't an input (meaning no voltage). Being a reverse light wire, its not something I can easily check with a voltmeter by myself.

 

Engage the parking brake, turn the key on (not the engine) trans in reverse. Then you can check the wires. I think it is the center wire you desire.

Or run a jumper wire right over to the actual reverse light in the taking housing

 

I thought you tapped into the tail light, not the trailer connector. My trailers don't have reverse lights. For the trailers I have wired, there was not a "reverse" anywhere on the connector. Lights, Brakes/turn, electric brakes, but no reverse.

 

Some of the newer trailers do have back up lights, but I have never had one, or really seen much need for them.


Robert

 

My trailer uses the reverse light signal to kill the surge brakes. It would engage the brakes when backing otherwise