Video Transcript for All About the LED Trailer Clearance or Side Marker Light with Reflector

Ellen: Hey everybody. I'm Ellen here at etrailer.com and we're taking a really quick look at the Optronics LED light for your trailer. This is going to give you a side marker light, as well as a rear light. It has the reflector, so other people can see what's going on with your trailer even at night. And then we'll have our two wires to connect for our power and ground. Then I see about these as they do already have the connectors installed.

They have some heat shrink butt connectors. These are for the 14 to 16 gauge wire. So the blue heat shrinks are usually for that size of wire. So you can just put in the wires to run into these guys, use a heat gun and shrink them down. And that'll give you a nice water-tight connection between those wires.

So kind of a nice improvement. It's nice they're already installed. So that's one less thing you got to worry about.As far as the size and dimensions, we'll take a look at all of that and make sure that this is the right size for you. Again, it is an LED light. So it's going to give you that clear side marker light for your vehicle.

You can use this as a side marker or clearance light since it's just P2 rated. That means it's only going to give you a 90 degree beam. So somebody can't see it from both directions. So if you wanted to have this to do both those functions or kind of put it on a corner so that people could see all the way around you, you'd actually have to get two lights to do that since you can only see it in that 90 degree view. And there's a pretty good diagram on our website here at etrailer.com that explains that a little bit more fully.It's just a single diode that gives you that light.

I'm going to hook this up to power and ground so you can see how bright that is. It's not going to be super bright or really illuminating a wide area. It's just going to be enough so that other people can see your trailer while you're out on the road with those lights on. So I'm going to get my little alligator clamps in there. Hopefully those will be long enough. There might be a little bit of flashing just because of my connection here. Since I'm just using these alligators clamps. Here we go. So I got to hold my power in to get it to turn on, but you can see that lights on there. And with the studio lights out, you can see just how bright that is. So again, not super bright, but enough that other drivers can see you and know where your trailer is.Put those off to the side. And then as far as measurements, the outside edge of the light is about three and a half inches in diameter. It does have this little kind of foam ground at the backs of that does help us to stay pretty water tight. We put this over here. The cutout this will need to fit into is about two and a half inches in diameter. We'll have three mounting holes, and those are spaced apart about two and three quarter inches apart center to center, going across that triangle there. It looks like about quarter inch hardware should work just fine for these. The connector or the wires coming off here, I'll give you a measurement of how much lead you get. Should be enough to get them connected up, but never a bad idea to know what you're working with. So it looks like you got about seven inches of wire to work with here.The lens and housing is made out of polycarbonate. Again, those are the LED, does make it a longer lasting bulb or longer lasting light than your typical incandescent light. Did we work better in all kinds of terrain and should last you longer and have less chance that you'll ever need to replace it unless that housing cracks, but polycarbonate it's usually pretty good at withstanding most impacts. As far as the reflector, again, you can see the light reflecting there. It is waterproof, has a sonically sealed housing. So you should be able to use this on just about any kind of application you'd want. It's a single diode. The power draw at 12.8 volts is 0.045 amps, and there is a lifetime warranty on the LED and it is DOT compliant.That's pretty much it for our look at the Optronics LED Clearance Marker or Side Marker light. I hope this has been helpful in deciding if this is the right one for you. We do have a lot of other options available here at etrailer.com. So check them out. Thanks for watching.