5-Way Replacement Recommendation for a Trailer with 3 Wires Ran to the Ground Circuit
Updated 04/11/2016 | Published 04/08/2016
Question:
Hello, I have a boat trailer that has a 5 pin plug that has 8 wires. In order they are white, white, white, brown, brown, yellow, green and blue. One of the pins recently broke off so I need to replace the plug. Just about all the 5 pin plugs I can find are 5 wire which makes total sense. Since I cant find an 8 wire 5 pin plug ANYWHERE my question is this. Can I buy a standard 5 pin, 5 wire plug and simply take the 3 white wires from the trailer and connect them to the one white wire coming out of the new plug and take the 2 brown wires coming from the trailer and connect them to the one brown wire going to the new plug? I just have NO IDEA why there needs to be 3 white wires and 2 brown wires? Any light you could shed on this would really help. Thanks,
asked by: Todd
Expert Reply:
The white wires on your connector are the ground wires. What you can do is run all of the ground wires to one wire for the ground on the part # HM47910 and you would be totally fine.
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