This 12" loop has a 2-pole connector at each end for use with 12-volt accessories. The wires can be cut to provide 2 compatible replacement plugs or to create a plug-in connection for a hardwired accessory.
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Hi there, do it yourselfers. Today we're going to be taking a look at Hopkins two wire plug. Our wiring harness comes with a connector on each end. If you look at these, you'll see that the exposed male end on one side has a red wire, and the exposed to male end on the other connector has a white wire. This is so you can cut it in half here and wire off one side onto your trailer, and the other side can wire up onto an accessory, such as our light here, which will allow it to easily disconnect from our trailer.Some of the lights that you can purchase out there already come with one end, but your trailer might not have a connector on it. So you can use this to wire in the appropriate connection that you'll need to plug into those lights, right onto your trailer.
Now there's other uses for it than just your lights here. You could also use this to make any accessory quick connect using this plug. Some examples would be a breakaway switch, because it's good to check your breakaway switch every year and check its functionality. And if you're finding that you're replacing it quite often we'll might as well make it so you can just plug in a new one real fast.You could also use it with other accessories that you may want to take off your trailer and keep them safe, such as maybe a backup camera you got at the back of your trailer. You don't want to leave it on there all the time.
So you just unplug your camera, toss it in the glove box of your truck, and whenever you need it you can just put it right back on the back and plug it in. Now it's easy enough to get wired into place. Our trailer here just has bare wires. We've got our left turn signal and over here we've got our taillight circuit.So what we can do is take our harness here snip it in half. And then we can wire it up.
Now what you want to keep in mind is what you're going to be plugging into it and how it's wired. So for example here you can see that our light already has a connector on it. It has a red wire and a black wire there. The red wire is the stop circuit, or the turn circuit, and the black wire is our taillight circuit. So we want to make sure that when we wire up our connector on this side, that our red wire here is going to plug into the red wire on here and that it's wired to the appropriate circuit.So you can see the wire here is red going to the male, and the wire here is red going to the female.
So they're going to plug in. So we just need to put the red to our turn signal and then our white to our taillight circuit, which is our brown wire here. We'll strip both of those back on both our trailer and on our harness. And then we'll use butt connectors to connect the two together. I highly recommend that you use heat shrink butt connectors to do so, as that will keep out any moisture, ensuring a long lasting connection, and preventing corrosion.Crimp our butt connector to our stop light circuit from the other end of our butt connector. We will crimp on to the stop light circuit for our connector, which is our red wire. And then we'll crimp our other two wires together. Now if you we're doing this on other accessories such as a breakaway switch, those are just a two wire circuit to your breakaway switch, so you could wire this in with either side of that, because your breakaway switch doesn't really matter which side is switch. We'll then heat shrink our butt connectors down.You can now plug in your light or if you have a light like this that didn't come with one, you can wire up your other end that you cut to that light and then plug it in. If you already have a plug that came on your light like ours did here, then you could use this to wire to your trailer on the other side. You do want to keep in mind though that you would need to reverse the wire colors, as you can see here they are opposite. So just you want to keep that in mind if you are going to use it in that situation.Now you want to also keep in mind your lights will likely have a ground wire that you'll have to connect as well, if you're using it for lights. Most of the time those come with a ring terminal pre-attached on those. So I'm going to finish getting our light mounted up and then we'll test it out. Now we've got it all mounted up. I went ahead and plugged our tester in here to make sure everything's working and you can see here that we're all hooked up and up and running. Having a connector added to any of your accessories makes it easy to replace them, so it's particularly useful on your LED lights here because if you do have any malfunction, let's see you back into something, something happens, it gets damaged, we can't replace the bulb, so we're going to have to replace the whole assembly. Just quickly disconnect it and we can get our new one hooked back up without requiring any stripping or crimping, just plugging in the new assembly. And that completes our look at Hopkins two wire plug.
Average Customer Rating: 4.9 out of 5 stars (89 Customer Reviews)
This 12" loop has a 2-pole connector at each end for use with 12-volt accessories. The wires can be cut to provide 2 compatible replacement plugs or to create a plug-in connection for a hardwired accessory.I ordered some wire and electrical parts to rebuild my 16' lawn service trailer. These folks had good prices and everything was in stock, well packed and shipped promptly and for a reasonable fee. These site also has helpful articles on wiring selection, color codes, etc. Very helpful.
I found in the past, that Hopkins wiring have always been dependable. I used these particular adapters to hook up auxiliary lighting for a slide in camper on my trailer and also for a hook up for my tow behind sprayer on my garden tractor. Performed great on both.
Great connectors for my Kubota BX tractor, made many removable connections for lights and other items on the tractor. Would buy again, bought many to use already.
Great Light, replaced old ones easily. LEDs are extremely bright.
the web page was easy to navigate and the ordering process was as expected
Good pigtail for miscellaneous applicat ions.
E trailer did a fantastic job. Before order: Technical support / help was excellent. Goal, conversion of a 1998 Floe snowmobile trailer from surge to electric brakes. Problem, due to time and corrosion, I could only supply partial part numbers, spindle diameter. etrailer did a fantastic job, researching, and getting me the correct part numbers, so I could order. Julie did a great job. She was very timely, communicated clearly and honestly, and just “kept me in the loop”. I received the order came on the projected date, complete and undamaged. Excellent. I would highly recommend etrailer, for your part needs.
needed connectors for my solar system. Theses plugs are an excellent choice with a great price
Product exactly what I ordered. Shipped and received on-time. Always good doing business with etrailer.
needed quickly and at a great price
I just received the Hopkins two-pole flat wiring extensions that I ordered and I am very pleased with the quality and functionality. It is a standard two-wire connector but these connectors have become increasing hard to find locally and the etrailer price is great and the shipping is reasonable. I ordered several of these connectors to have available for future use.
You did your part. My friend was supposed to bring it to Guatemala but forgot. Hopefully I’ll receive it. Thank you
handy item no need to Buy multiples and i decide pigtail length
I was unable to find the exact connector that wanted to replace. This connector seemed to be a good substitute. When it arrived I found it to be too tight to insert and very difficult to disconnect. Since this cable requires frequent connection and disconnection between my motorhome and towed is was not sure if it would be more of a problem than a solution. I called customer service and they were most helpful. Their suggestion to use dielectric grease has helped somewhat. Time will tell if this will be usable. Time will tell.
These Hopkins 12" extensions are great. They arrived today as promised, I had been waiting for them to install a quick disconnect for a Float Charger for my H.D. (got mine done today, couple friends will be done tomorrow). Ironically the mailman came by about the same time as these were delivered according to the "Tracking Program", I went to mailbox and didn't receive them USPS. Package shipped UPSSurepost and they left box in carport - - - Normally all that deliver packages here walk the extra 8 or 10 steps and give ya a knock on the door and leave package by Front Door. Got em anyway. Very Happy with purchase. Mike
The two-pin connectors arrived sooner than expected and were very well packaged. They are being used for hooking up solar panel chargers to outdoor equipment batteries. The connectors really facilitate servicing and maintenance.
I use these connectors for auto, marine, and misc connectors. These are high quality and the service from etrailer is great. If you need a 2 pole universal connector this is the one!!
Exactly what I need to get KidTrax truck battery charged.
These type connectors are getting a bit more difficult to find, and I was glad they were available from e trailer at a great price. Delivery was great and they were well packaged for use. As for my use, I build specialized machines for our industry and these will be used to transfer low voltage from on point to an operator switch. Again great find, great buy, and excellent service as usual.
These work great for providing quick connect/disconnect capability between the 12 volt batteries and solar panel chargers at our sportsman's club.
These 12v two pole flat plugs are the perfect way to run accessories in vehicles. Makes disconnection a snap. I use them often and have come to depend on them.
Great service, great selection and great pricing. Can't wait to ship with trailer again.
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