narva led lights

[lippa]

gidday,

just a question, I'm considering buying the narva lights which come with 9 meters of 4 core wire. how do i wire my clearance into this loom? or do i have to run a separate wire up to the connector.

cheers

lippa

[Ally Jack]

Lippa,

I'd guess you could cut into the loom and attach you clearance lights. I'd solder them in and seal it back up. If you connect your clearance lights together, you might only have to do this in 1 spot.

Ally Jack

[lippa]

so cut into the tail light wire?
how would ya connect it considering the loom will be inside the trailer chassis

[Spaniard_King]

Lippa. better of runing an etra run o twin core wire to each clearance light and joining at the plug. This way you have no joins in the water no matter how good o a join you have this is the best method

[lippa]

cheers mate, i'll end up with 4 earth wires? do i splice them, or try and shove them in the plug.

[Ally Jack]

Lippa,

I'd measure and do it before feeding it into the rail, but I think Garry has a better idea esp. if you sink the trailer that far
I'd doubt you'll get them all the earths into the plug socket, splice and solder just before the socket.

Ally Jack

[Spaniard_King]

Lippa,

On my last traile I had the 4 wires and ran them into an electrical box mounted on the winch post where they all came into a terminal strip. From there I ran 1 peice of 5 core to the trailer plug.. I did a mates trailer like this as well.. I will go take a pik of his trailer tomorrow.

Luckily my new trailer is hanging in and I havent been required to touch the wirring.

[White Pointer]

Lippa. better of runing an etra run o twin core wire to each clearance light and joining at the plug. This way you have no joins in the water no matter how good o a join you have this is the best method

G'day,

Agree with the extra run as far forward as you can. Make the join close to the plug but leave a bit of slack wire. Shrink wrap all joins and inspect every 6-months and clean and reseal.

LED lamps are great but some cars don't like them. My 2002 Landrover is OK but the 2007 Rodeo wouldn't light up the trailer brake lamps. There's an expensive fix and a cheap fix. Let me know if you have this problem.

White Pointer

[Angla]

G'day,

Agree with the extra run as far forward as you can. Make the join close to the plug but leave a bit of slack wire. Shrink wrap all joins and inspect every 6-months and clean and reseal.

LED lamps are great but some cars don't like them. My 2002 Landrover is OK but the 2007 Rodeo wouldn't light up the trailer brake lamps. There's an expensive fix and a cheap fix. Let me know if you have this problem.

White Pointer

I also have the 2007 Rodeo and have no problems with the trailer lighting which is all LED. I would suggest the socket wiring may be wrong on the car. Should be a cheap fix for an auto eleccy or handy person

Chris

[Far side]

You can join them into the looms but you will need some resin core heatshrink
Solder the joints first then use the heat shrink

We use this for underground water joints
works fine on submersable trailer wiring

[TheRealAndy]

What Garry says. I did the same thing (i dont have clearance lights though) with the electrical box. Will take a photo of it tonight for you.

[ratbag's]

Lippa, I have rewired my trailer with clearance lights & Narva tail lights. I ran the wiring thru the trailer & joined them all into 1 set of wiring into the plug. I did the splice & dice stuff, all soldered & heat shrink & taped (just to make sure). They are joined in about 18 inches back from the plug. when offloading the boat, the join is still out of the water. this was easier than cutting & joining mid section on the clearance lights.
cheers, ratbag.

[captain rednut]

ive had narva led boat trailer lites for two years and replaced them under warranty three times now which is a real piss off every time they fail! and guess what? yesterday i rang narva again and they have stopped making that model now because they fill up with water! funny that, now im in the market for a good quality water proof lite with a long harness so the join is out of the water and still cant find one, narva dont make one suitable the rep said!

[lippa]

cheers fellas,
i went to ashdowns today and bought the narva set, 30mtes twin core wire, the guy looked at me funny when I said junction box, then bought out this huge box you could run three phase into !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

if some one could post a link to the box thingy i'm chasing that would be gold.

i hope i have a better run than you CR! time will tell

thanks guys, the help is really appreciated.

cheers

lippa

[boatboy72]

lippa i make trailers and use narva stuff have not had any probs with any of products when doing a boat trailer i use a narva solder splice terminator page 155 of there catologue this is a clear shrink tube with a band glue at both ends and a band of solder in the middle just use like normal shrink and you have a water tight soldered join the splice with the second wire may let water in though