Tail Light for Trailers Over 80" Wide - 8 Function - Incandescent - Square - Driver Side

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Randy: Hey guys, Randy here at etrailer.com. So we're going to be taking a look at an incandescent square light from Optronics. Now, these are designed and suited for use on just about any type of trailer, but they do meet the DOT compliance factors for trailers over 80 inches wide. I think these are going to be very good on most of your utility trailers and things like that, out there. Since it is incandescent and not submersible, I don't think it's going to be ideal for boat trailers and things like that. But outside of that, if you've got a square type light, it's going to use the standard two-inch bolt pattern or two-inch studs in the back, and it should just be a direct replacement, especially with the push to connect that we have on the back, just strip off your wires and plug them into the appropriate hole and the light's going to work well for you.Now, driver and passenger side are going to be a little bit different.

Our driver's side is going to have a lens here on the bottom. That's going to light up and it's going to help to illuminate our license plate, which is required in most States. The only difference between this and the passenger side is that it's not going to have that one. Now with incandescent lights, they do tend to be a little bit more fragile than what we see out of LEDs. If I had the option and if I had the choice, if I we're replacing lights on my trailer, I would go with a LED option.

They tend to be brighter, they use less power and they last a lot longer. However, there are always places for incandescent lights and where they can be used, especially if you're just going to be replacing one and you've already got an incandescent on the other side, will look a little weird if you mix them up, so I'd either replace it with a single incandescent or if you want to refresh it, switch them both out for a LED type.Now the housing is really nice and sturdy. Not a lot of flexing give to it, and our lenses are going to be acrylic. They should last for a very long time without any real discoloration or anything like that. And unless you run into these as something pretty significant or really drop a brick on them or something like that, I really don't think you're going to have any issues with breaking or cracking.

Now, while I think these are good lights, I think they're going to do the job and I think they'll do it for a long time for you. I've hauled a lot of trailers in my day and one of the number one headaches is you get somewhere, you hook up to the trailer and the lights aren't working, and maybe it's just a bad ground or something, but more often than that, I've found that the bulbs busted or the socket where the bulb fits into has corroded.Now this does use a shock proof socket to help maintain that filament and the incandescent bolt and keep it from breaking. But, I strongly recommend if you're going to go this route that you use some dielectric grease at that connection point. It's going to help to reduce the moisture, getting on there, causing corrosion, which usually causes issues. Now with those push-to-connect fittings, we talked about, it's very important that we get our wires very tightly wound.

So I like to spread them out a little bit and then wrap them. It's going to give us a good stiffness. If we just left him kind of all single strands, really not going to be able to get them in there, all that well, and at that point, we're going to take our brown wire or whatever wire is giving you your tail light signal. It's going to slide into the tail light, opening here, push it in all the way, just like that.The other side, we'll use our yellow wire for the stop and turn or whatever color your stop and turn signals come from, just like that. And you see right here, you get the area for that wire to sit down in it, at that point, let's take off our flans nuts here and get it mounted to the trailer. Put that through our mounting holes, which are on two inch centers, get that secured down. Then we'll use our seven sixteenths and tighten them up.I like to take my excess, which I always leave a little bit of, just in case we ever have any issues anywhere, we've got some extra wire to use, so tie that. Then we'll zip tie it up to the trailer. Once you get this nice and secure, it's just time to head over to your passenger side, do the same thing there. The only difference is going to be your wire. It's going to be your right turn and brake rather than your left turn and brake, and that's generally green. Now we can test them out and make sure they're going to work properly. It's going to turn on our tester here. You could also simply plug these into your towed vehicle. It's like the tail lights are working good. We can do our left turn signal, do our right turn signal and our brakes. Looks like everything here is working as it should..