trailer plugs and wiring help

[rocknferoza]

A couple of mates and I spent the weekend sorting the wiring out on my trailer so I can run my evakool fridge and a light for camping. The battery is mounted in the trailer and a power and earth wire has been run from the battery to the front of the trailer with an anderson plug. An anderson plug was connected to the back of the truck. When it was time to connect the plugs together they wouldn't clip in and when I held them together and we tested to see if there was power to my battery, there wasn't.
We had to cut the earth wire on the truck as we couldn't get the metal clip out. we then sat the earth wire inside the plug so there was contact and made sure the power ones were touching and there was power..

Mate gave up and said he would now run the wires for my battery through 12 pin trailer plugs. Is this a good idea or should we still go with the anderson plugs

Mates truck has a 7 pin truck plug and my trailer has a 7 pin small round.
My truck has the same as my trailer.


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Thanx
James

[drivesafe]

Hi rocknferoza, persist with the Anderson plugs because they are specifically designed to not only handle the currents needed to run a dual battery set-up but are designed to be plugged and unplugged many, many times and always make a good connection.

As to the terminal not going in properly, did you have the terminal the correct way up. This can not only cause problems when pushing the terminal into the plastic housing but, as the terminal can be fitted upside down, if it is, it will stop the plugs being pushed together.

If you need to remove a terminal from an Anderson plug get a small screw drive and hold down the spring locking plate, just inside the connector end of the plug and then pull the terminal out the other end.

Cheers.

[-Scott-]

Hi rocknferoza, persist with the Anderson plugs because they are specifically designed to not only handle the currents needed to run a dual battery set-up but are designed to be plugged and unplugged many, many times and always make a good connection.

As to the terminal not going in properly, did you have the terminal the correct way up. This can not only cause problems when pushing the terminal into the plastic housing but, as the terminal can be fitted upside down, if it is, it will stop the plugs being pushed together.

If you need to remove a terminal from an Anderson plug get a small screw drive and hold down the spring locking plate, just inside the connector end of the plug and then pull the terminal out the other end.

Cheers.

Yeah! Wot he sed!

Anderson plugs are made for this application - trailer plugs are not.

I haven't wired many Anderson plugs, but I know I farked the first one! As drivesafe said, it's not hard to insert the terminals the wrong way. And it's not much harder to remove them and insert them properly.

Do it properly! You're so close! If your mate wants to give up, let him. If you can't do it yourself, pay a professional - there can't be that much left to do?

[rocknferoza]

Thanx for the feedback guys.

Everyone I've spoken to has said the same thing.

BTW, someone told me that the 12 pin plugs are slowly being fazed out. Is this correct