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Old Dec 25, 2004 | 01:24 PM
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interior light not working

after wiring in a 7 spade flat plug on my 2000 f-150 with elect brakes i cant get the interior lights to work in my trailer is there a relay i need or how do i get them to work everything else seems to work ok
 
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Old Dec 25, 2004 | 04:02 PM
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Did you hook to a red wire in the truck's harness? In the 1999 diagram they show a "battery junction box" This box has fuses in it. They show a red wire for "trailer tow battery feed" running out of this box to the trailer plug. It is fed by a 30 amp fuse in this fuse box.
 
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Old Dec 25, 2004 | 05:19 PM
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is the orange aux wire supposed to run the interior lights.on a trailer i had in the past you had to have the running lights on to be able to turn on the int.lights.the trailer is brand new so the lights should work if i can locate which wire runs the int lights
 
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Old Dec 26, 2004 | 09:11 AM
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Originally Posted by c487w
is the orange aux wire supposed to run the interior lights.on a trailer i had in the past you had to have the running lights on to be able to turn on the int.lights.the trailer is brand new so the lights should work if i can locate which wire runs the int lights
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Old Dec 26, 2004 | 04:09 PM
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I don't know about the trailer wiring. I would take a small battery charger and use it to experiment on the trailer plug. If anything goes wrong, it has a circuit breaker made into it.
 
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