When you're out on the open road, changing weather conditions can be a challenge. The Mighty Cord 7-Way RV-Style Trailer Connector, made with durable molded rubber construction, stands up to the elements. Its corrosion-resistant terminals ensure a long-lasting connection between your trailer and vehicle, so you can travel with peace of mind regardless of rain, snow, or shine.
Say goodbye to frustration with short cords that don't quite reach. This 10-foot long trailer connector offers a custom-fit design, providing the perfect length for any setup. No matter your trailer type, this extended reach ensures you have room to maneuver and connect without a hitch, literally! It's especially useful for those larger setups like fifth-wheel trailers and camper vans.
You want power, lights, and brakes wired correctly, especially before setting out. The Mighty Cord #A10-7W10 has you covered with RV standard wiring colors: yellow for auxiliary/reverse lights, green for tail lights, brown for right turn/brake lights, blue for electric brakes, black for 12V battery charge, red for left turn/brake lights, and white for ground. These standardized wire colors help ensure that your connections are safe and accurate without the guesswork.
Handling significant electrical loads requires robust wires, and this connector exceeds expectations. The blue wire for electric brakes is thoughtfully designed with a 12-gauge thickness, while the critical 12V power and ground wires (black and white) are a hefty 10-gauge. Lighter gauge wires handle the rest flawlessly. This setup ensures parts like your brakes and power sources get the stable current flow they need, for a smooth and secure towing experience.
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Speaker 1: Today we'll be having a look at, and showing you how to install the Mighty Cord, 7 way RV style trailer connector. Part number A10-7W8. Now your cord can become damaged in many ways. Most commonly, you forget to unplug it when you uncouple from your fifth wheel trailer or your other type of trailer that you have, and it breaks off or tears. Something of that nature. Or it drags on the ground somehow when you're towing your trailer and it wears holes in the wire.
That's a good situation where you're justified replacing it.Now the replacement cord that we have here today is a molded design. What that means is that our connector is molded onto the cable end to help prevent moisture from getting inside. We have a total length of eight foot of wire to go to our junction box or our unions where our wires will meet the rest of the wiring on our trailer.This is an ideal replacement for broken, damaged, worn out, frayed connectors for your trailer. This will work with fifth wheel trailers, gooseneck trailers. Any trailer out there with a seven way connector, this will work for it.
This seven way connector is available in various different sizes to fit your needs or your application. It's super easy to plug in. Just line up the tab on the top of it, and slide it into your seven way on the back of your vehicle.Here's what it looks like installed in conjunction with a junction box. A junction box makes it easier for you to add replacement lights down the road, or to add additional lights or other features to your vehicle or trailer that can work off of your seven way connector. Now that we've gone over some features of our Mighty Cord seven way connector, we'll show you how to get it installed.
We're going to cut off our existing seven way wire past all the damaged section, making sure we leave enough slack in it to reuse our junction box.You want to make sure that you have your batteries disconnected on your trailer at this time if you have any. This is the junction box we're using. We're going to take our cord, measure a little bit less than the full length of it, and we will cut off the outer sheathing. Okay, once we have it cut all the way through, we can pull back the sheath, exposing our wires inside.Now, we'll open up our junction box. Now inside the junction box, you can see it's labeled with the corresponding colors.
You have your white, your black, your yellow, your red, green, brown and blue and the corresponding functions which are correct in most applications. But because we're just using this to combine our old seven way wiring with the new seven way connector, we'll just match them up by color.Now we'll take one of our grommets that comes with the junction box. Slide our wires through it. Make sure the sheathing goes inside of it. Take our junction box now, take out one of the knock outs, slide the grommet into that hole. Okay, now we'll secure the wire with a clamp and our provided screws and we'll tighten these down so the wire can't be pulled out. On our replacement seven way, I went ahead and cut off some more of the sheathing. I'll slide another one of those grommets over the wires and down onto the sheathing itself. We'll go through another hole and we'll clamp it in place just like we did the other one. Now I'll pull back and make sure it's secure.Now we can start stripping back our wires, cutting them to length, and matching up with the corresponding colors. We'll start with our blue ones first. We'll strip back some insulation from both blue wires and on each blue wire we will attach some small yellow ring terminals which we have available on our website, clamp them in place. Slide them over the stud for our blue terminal. Place on one of our star washers followed by a nut, and we'll tighten that down.We'll continue this process for all of our colored wires, matching them up color to color. All right, with them all secured and matched up properly, we now have a proper electrical connection and if we need to add any accessories later to our trailer such as extra lights, we can easily do it inside of our junction box.With all of our connections made, we'll put the cover on, resecure the screws and now we're going to mount our junction box up next to this other electrical box in our king pin box. We'll be using a couple self tapping screws to secure this. Just like that, with our screws installed, our junction box is secure, and is readily accessible in case you need to make any repairs or add any electrical accessories such as additional lights.Now that we have everything installed, we'll take our new plug and we'll plug it into a seven way in the back of a truck the test out all of our functions to make sure everything is working correctly. Okay, we'll start by turning our headlights on. See our taillight running lights are working properly. Do a left turn signal. That works. Right turn signal. That works. Step on the brakes. Those are working. While we're stepping on the brakes, we'll make sure our turn signals work correctly.That's all good. Everything is working properly. That completes our look at and showing you how to install the Mighty Cord Seven way RV style trailer connector, part number A10-7W8.
The delivery was reasonably fast. The service tech, Nicolas C., with whom I talked and placed the order was very knowledgeable and pleasant.
The cable is for a 5th wheel travel trailer to a 3/4 ton pickup needed to replace the factory one-foot too short cable with a connector whose female metal connections had lost their temper and thus valid connections to distribute voltage and current from the truck to the brakes, batteries, and refrigerator.
The new cable seems to have solved the problem.
The etrailer site had good wiring diagrams and installing instruction for many types of trailers.
The quality and the design of the cable is excellent - the only problem I encountered with it was the color coding of the wires. First, I ordered the RV version which means that the wires are supposed to be located at specific points in the plug and I found that they were not in agreement with what etrailer's connection scheme said that they would be.
Whatever was the case, I am working on a utility trailer and my vehicle is wired as a utility trailer would be because that is what I use it for. It mystifies me that there is a difference between RV and utility trailers because anyone who uses a trailer does not want to have multiple hookups when it is totally unnecessary.
Be that as it may, I found that to use the RV connector cable, I had to exchange the white and the blue wires, the red and the yellow wires, and the brown and the green wires in the box relative to the trailer wiring. This means that the yellow wire of the cable is connected to the center pin of the connector for auxiliary power (in my case). The red wire is the left side signal and brake light (trailer yellow). The blue wire is connected to the ground wire on the vehicle (trailer white). The white wire is connected to the brake controller (trailer blue). The brown wire is the right side signal and brake light (trailer green). The green wire is the tail lights (trailer brown). When I did this swap, all of the items matched the connector on my vehicle and everything works. I have not actually tested the brakes yet, but that is coming.
Works for what we needed.. use it all the time the camper is on the truck.
The cord is of good quality and is working well. The reason for 3 stars is that the wire color to Pin location don't match the standards I have printed even ones I got with the car connector from etrailer. I just used an ohm meter to confirm which color wire connected to each pin before connecting to the trailer.
Ordering and shipping on time was great. easy installment. Only draw back is the longer I pull my trailer the more the brakes apply pressure and I have to make adjustments to keep brakes from locking up. But I would and suggest buying to a friend.
Purchased this to upgrade the connection between my trailer and my truck. This cable has remained flexible and provided the length I wanted to be able to connect without hitching.
This cord was a good length to replace the damaged cord on our travel trailer. It has a sealed plug connection thus eliminating the need to attach and maintain the RV-style plug on the end of the cable. This was an easy replacement.
I bought this to replace the worn out connector on my RV. I was happy to see that the white, black and blue wires were of a heavier gage than the other four wires since that is how the original cable on my RV is. The package arrived sooner than I expected. This will be much better than if I had just replaced the connector. No more worries if my trailer turn signals are working!
My old cord had 16 gauge wire for the brakes , This took care of my week trailer brakes.
This was an exact match to the wiring of my 2009 forest river 27' salem toy hauler. I purchased the 10' cable which is 2' longer than the stock cable. I did that so I would have extra cable to add a new end to if I have troubles later on. The Product works perfectly after installation . My reason for the replacement was a failure of the stock plug end. No complaints about the stock one. It lasted 10 years which I believe is a good life span for any plug. This plug seems like with proper care and corrosion protection it should have a long life as well.
Quality product, well built, durable and easy to install. Recommend a quality crimper or solder connections to the electrical box.
Works great for a conversion lance camper plug rubber coated plug good quality product
Grateful I found this website, your web page is great for finding the products I needed, the price was great and free shipping on top of that. The product came quickly and although I haven't installed it yet I plan on doing that this weekend. I am very pleased with your company.
Thank you for your excellent service. I needed the wiring harness urgently overnight and Nicole in customer service made sure it would ship and get to me on time.
Direct replacement for my trailer cord. Like that it is sealed to keep the weather out.
Replaced old cord with new one. Exactly what I wanted at a reasonable price. That is why I always check etrailer for parts I need on my RVs. the cord is durable and is exactly how it was explained in its description.
Customer service is great with etrailer I appreciate the time I spent of the phone with the gentlemen he was very knowledgeable he was a good communicator and very courteous. I will order more parts from them. 1st impression goes along way.
This worked out great for wiring my tra iler.
Service, delivery and product quality were all as advertised and then some. When one item on my order was back ordered they called promptly and suggested a suitable replacement.
Works. Real tough to install. Terminal ends must be cut at exactly the correct length to fit in the junction box. Colors all matched up fine.
Well made standard trailer connection. Make sure that the one you buy is long enough.
Fast shipping. Quality items,could no be more pleased.instruction were clear and greatly appreciated.
RV pig tail was delivered with the Truck harness in a timely manner. The quality of the product was very good and excellently made.
Excellent above and beyond customer service!! The called the same day after we placed our order to let us know they hadn't received their shipment and swapped us products to get us what we needed right away! 5 days after a Saturday order and we have our products! Outstanding!! We will be sharing your name with friends and family!!
Easily added to my boat trailer works w ell
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