Black Mounting Bracket for A91 and AL91 Series Trailer Clearance, Side Marker Lights -Self Grounding

Video Transcript for Optonics Sealed LED Trailer Clearance Lights Installation

Today we are going to convert our jet ski trailer side markers from old incandescent fixtures to new 3 LED light fixtures. We are going to be using Optronics sealed miro-flex mini LED marker, part number AL191AB. We will also be using the black mounting bracket, part number A91BB. And we will finish it up with a single pull wire 12 inch lead from Optronics, part number A91LW. And we will be doing a side marker on either side of the trailer so we are going to need two of each of these part numbers. These are the triple LED lights we are going to be using. There are three LEDs inside the housing and a mirror reflector inside and our amber colored lens on the outside. On the reverse you will see that the whole circuit board is sealed up. The only thing that is exposed is our two contacts. One is going to be for ground and the other is going to be out power source. 1:07

We will take our wire lead. Plug it into the connector port on top and make sure we are snapped in. The second contact on the bottom of the light will make contact with our ground pin here that will actually ground through one of our mounting screws. We will mount our bracket to our trailer frame first using the existing hardwire on our trailer frame. Then we will feed the wire through and our light will snap into place. Alright, let us get started by removing the old lights off of the trailer. The first thing we need to do is pop the old lens cover off. Next we are going to remove the two self tapping screws that hold the light fixture in place on the trailer frame. We are going to hold onto those and reuse them when we install our new lights. Next we will pop our light fixture off. Pull out the wiring just a little bit. Then we will cut it as close as we can to the light fixture so we have a little bit of excess. 2:24

Really quick, we are going to clean out the mounting area and touch up the rust spots with a little bit of black paint to make it look nice again. Get the dirt out of the way. If you find that your mounting location is particularly rusty, go ahead and hit it with some sandpaper, get it back to clean metal and then touch up your paint. But we are not too bad on this trailer, so we are just going to cover it up really quick. We are going to take our wire strippers and trim just a little bit of insulation so that we can attach it to our new light lead. Next we are going to take a butt connector. Slip it over our wire. Next we are going to take our new light with our power lead installed and we are going to take a piece of heat shrink tubing and slip it over. We are going to use our heat shrink to protect our electrical connection once we are done. We have cut off a little bit of the length so we do not have quit so much excess wire and now we are going to just strip off a little bit at the end. Take our other end of the wire. Slip it into our butt connector and again take our crimper and clamp down. You want to give it a quick tug to make sure our electrical connection is secure. We look pretty good so we are going to slide our heat shrink tubing up and over our butt connector. And you can use a small torch or even a lighter to heat it up and it will shrink tight around your wire and give you a good seal and protect your connection. 4:10

If you want, you can also use some electrical tape once you have used the heat shrink for a little bit of extra security. Keep the heat moving and turn the wire back and forth so you get a nice, even shrink and seal. Now we are ready to mount our bracket to our mounting location on our trailer tongue. Just slip our bracket through our wire. Take the self-tapping screws that we had installed earlier and tighten everything down. Now we will go ahead and run these screws all of the way in. Now we are going to snap our wire lead back into our light. We will feed our excess wire back into the tongue of our trailer and we will just snap our light into place. Next we will repeat the same procedure for the other side of the trailer. Once we have done that, we can test out our lights. And that does it for our LED side marker conversion on our jet ski trailer using part number AL191AB, A91BB and A91LW.