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Amy E. Riley (Familycoach)
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Username: Familycoach
Post Number: 6
Registered: 9-2007
Posted From: 69.154.142.39
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, October 05, 2007 - 10:22 pm: | |
Does anybody know of a quick and easy way to take a 24 V to 12 V for tow lights. We are getting the hitch installed on Monday and want to get the wiring taken care of after that is done. Thanks in advance for your help. Amy & Scott |
John and Barb Tesser (Bigrigger)
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Username: Bigrigger
Post Number: 8
Registered: 9-2007
Posted From: 24.197.246.104
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, October 05, 2007 - 11:15 pm: | |
I just got a couple 24 volt bulbs for my tow lights and and a couple for the ones on the dolly and away you go. Took about 2 minutes. |
John MC9 (John_mc9)
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Username: John_mc9
Post Number: 526
Registered: 7-2006
Posted From: 66.217.102.140
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, October 06, 2007 - 12:08 am: | |
Two 12vdc bulbs in series will handle that 24vdc input. It's
a quick and dirty solution. Just buy some 12v bulb sockets
and wire them in series with each feed to the towed vehicle's
bulb circuit. Right at the connector is easiest location.
BahDahBing - BahDahBoom.... Let's lunch.
Or if you're planning on only towing that one particular vehicle,
you can use a wiring harness to install bulbs into the light fixtures...
BX8869 Bulb and Socket Tail Light Wiring Kit
Just use 24v bulbs instead of 12v..... However..... 24vdc bulbs
are not usually base-grounded! If you're installing into plastic, there
probably won't be a problem... Metal? All bets are off... |
Sean Welsh (Sean)
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Username: Sean
Post Number: 679
Registered: 1-2003
Posted From: 72.171.0.144
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, October 06, 2007 - 1:16 am: | |
We seem to have the same discussions over and over again on this board, and I never understand why.
Typing "12 volt trailer" into the search page turned up 11 previous threads on this subject, and that's just on the first page of four in the results.
Have a look at this one:
http://www.busnut.com/bbs/messages/233/13265.html
-Sean
http://OurOdyssey.BlogSpot.com |
Jerome Dusenberry (Jerry32)
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Username: Jerry32
Post Number: 43
Registered: 1-2007
Posted From: 148.78.243.52
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, October 06, 2007 - 8:46 am: | |
I built the converter that gumpy has a diagram for and works to convert 24 to 12 and take care of seperate directionals to combined all at once Jerry |