Help-Advice Needed Re Wiring Diagram

Mr Bonz

I have absolutely no idea about the intricacies of electrical engineering and can't help you with those things you mentioned, I just need a simple wiring diagram so I know where all the wires go.

Next door neighbour thinks they are available with numbers and colours showing what goes where type of thing.

Gday DD and Bonz
DD, to get the rite "corona ' effect, you need to have the plug or recepticle at 45 deg not 43 deg as Bonz has led you to believe. The slightly higher degree will give a better magnetic field and allow the electricity to flow easier or more freely as us in the business would say.The fiction of the electricity in the copper pipes will slow the flow at 43 deg so much you will need to go up to 24 volts to make the LED 's to light. I realy don't think that Bonz bloke knows what he is on about with electricity and the way it flows through the pipes.

looks more like the dog's breakfast

Thank you for that.

If I see this vehicle again I'll have another go at talking to the owner .

Waste of time..........
It's doubtful that the owner speaks any form of coherent english.

That mess is really scary..... read the earlier thread on vehicle/rooftop fire.

Go with John and Crackle's advice.

Pretty sure he does Allan, but it is a bit of a mess

Not a Renoir, but a Ren-wire I think.

Whoops, I notice no reference appears.

Click on this Vehicle Electrics

Gday Allan
Or mexican beer,,
I think i can say that Bonz and I stand by our explanation of the problem DD has.

DD. I think you and bonz and I are going to have to sit and work this out over a glass or two of Mull wine.

This is the corona I was mentioning:

In electricity, a corona discharge is an electrical discharge brought on by the ionization of a fluid surrounding a conductor that is electrically energized. The discharge will occur when the strength (potential gradient) of the electric field around the conductor is high enough to form a conductive region, but not high enough to cause electrical breakdown or arcing to nearby objects. It is often seen as a bluish (or other color) glow in the air adjacent to pointed metal conductors carrying voltages. Spontaneous corona discharges are undesirable where they waste power in voltage systems or where the high chemical activity in a corona discharge creates objectionable or hazardous compounds, such as ozone.

hence the bluetooth effect surroudning the wire ends

I don't understand a word or that, but is that bluetooth effect you mention something like a phone.

Stop it Bonz, you'll drive DD mad!!!!

Knowledge is knowing what a corona is; Wisdom is not lifting it verbatim from Wkipedia. lol

Thats correct Allan, corona is the effect of ionising the air around the end of a cble that makes the air semi conductive. Its also difficult to see, and yes I know not to use it in a salad

Hi Allan,

I think Bonz and Muzbry are not wearing coronas so much as smoking them and I don't think there is much tobacco in them either. LOL.

Certainly off with the pixies I think. LOL

Clive

Thanks for answering. All I wanted was a wiring diagram and now my head is spinning.

Will do as you and others suggested and have a chat with a Auto Electrician specialist as I can't tell whether that corona bluetooth angle thing they are talking about is on my vehicle.

Now who is pulling whose chain?

I noticed the pic is a little obscure so I am adding the following

Trailer Plug Wiring Code

1 Left Turn Signal Yellow

2 Reverse Lights Black

3 Earth Return White

4 Right Turn Signal Green

5 Electric Brake Wire Blue

6 Stop Lights Red

7 Tail Lights Brown

Note this applies to both the socket and plug as they are numbered correspondingly.

It is best to wire AUX power to the van via an Anderson type plug as a greater current can be supplied that way.

In some instances the reverse connector is used to power the 12 volt aux supply to the van fridge when moving if reverse lights are not fitted. This is a poor solution as reverse lights are required on some trailers so the socket becomes a one trick pony as it were.

Hope this helps.
Bruce.

Bruce

Thanks for that, just wish you had been the first to reply.

An Auto Electrician checked it out this morning and I'll place his advice as a new Reply below.

DD

Hi DD,

Forget that crap about coronas and blue tooth and blue flares, the guys were having a giggle like a couple of school girls. Either that or they were on the whacky weed.

They were actually having a shot at the rough wiring job.

The large plugs are often fitted to large trailers and were all the go for trucks years ago, may still be the case today, I am unsure.. Definitely used in agriculture but that is only due to their robustness.

They mainly come in die cast but I have also seen them black in plastic, even on ebay.

If you are happy with that quote then all is well. You will be happy with the outcome and lack of worry in the knowledge that it was proffessionally done.

I use the Narve or Utilux 7 pin flat plug as they are the most common these days on caravans. That way I can hook on to anybodys van if they are in trouble out on the road and anybody could likewise get me out of trouble should the need arise. The large round ones are not common these days.

Happy to help DD.

Cheers, Bruce.

$350 is cheap to sort out those corona problems DD and if he sorts out your connections too then youre on a winner