How To Wire and Install On-Board Auxiliary Trailer Battery to Power Lights  

There is always a way to make it work. I can't recommend doing that as I have not tested it and I do not offer a product like that with the exception of the Dexter Trailer Springs Over-Under Conversion Kit part #K71-384-00. This will give you a…

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The best way to power the interior lights in your trailer is with its own independent battery. You will not want to use the breakaway battery. The breakaway battery is only designed to operate the breakaway and will drain extremely quickly,…

Typically people will let the breakaway battery run the breakaway system and then would use the accessory battery to power the interior lights etc. This tends to work the best since your breakaway battery needs to always be charged and interior…

You are correct in your description of how to wire in a new auxiliary battery in your enclosed trailer. You will take the 7-Way's 12V power feed and route this to the positive terminal on the auxiliary battery, and you will ground the second…

It sounds like the tilt battery is backfeeding onto the breakaway battery charge line so as long as the ground is connecting it is taking a charge from the tilt battery and that is why your charge light is staying on. I have a solution for you, you…

Best way would be to run the power wire of your trailer connector to the positive post of a trailer battery and then running the power wire of all of the accessories to the positive post of the battery. That way it's drawing from either source…

Figuring out what color wire goes to what function is sometimes quite confusing. I have attached a diagram which covers both the most common wire colors designated for a seven pin trailer connector and a seven pin vehicle connector, referencing the…

The interior lights of your enclosed trailer are likely connected to the 12V (Auxiliary) power pin on the 7-Way of your trailer. You can verify this by applying 12V power from a separate battery to this pin and seeing if that supplies power to your…

The 6-wire and the 7-wire connectors will have the same color codes on six of the wires. The green wire is right turn/brake, the yellow wire is left turn/brake, the white wire is the ground, the brown wire is the taillights, the blue wire is electric…

I recommend a 12 volt car battery rather than a breakaway battery because you may end up needing the larger battery down the road. What you will do is attach a battery box (see link for options) to the trailer frame. From the trailer side 7-Way…