How To Solder Boat Trailer Wires

I rewire all of my trailers with the plastic 7 way connectors.

How to solder boat trailer wires. The solder should be fed into the cool side away from the heat which allows it to be drawn in smoothly by the heat transfer through the wires. Here is some wiring I did to extend the wiring harness on a trailer. My boat trailer beeps.

Trailer wiring isnt all that complicated but most of us dont have electrical engineering degrees either. If all the lights appear dim or you have no lights at all check the trailer light harness at the tow vehicle. Being NASA certified micro-miniature solderer in my Electronic Engineering Technician career you can use de-wicking tweezers to solder any wire and not have to worry about the residual rosin causing any problems.

You crimp it with the correct tooling then apply solder to the very end of the wire and let some flow into the B or butt cheek part of the terminal. It may be necessary to run the wires inside a tubular frame member or rings along the frame. Two types of a trailer wiring tester.

You will want to make sure you have a ring terminal like part DW05702-1 attached to the ground wire first. Sent from my GT-I8730T using Tapatalk. Im in the process of hard wiring in a 7 pin plug to my trailers 5 wires.

Disconnect the lights and remove the old harness noting how the wires were secured. Wiring boat trailer connectors. And the scheduled departure is in five minutes.

Blue Electric Brakes or Hydraulic Reverse Disable See Blue Wire Notes below In the Trailer Wiring Diagram and Connector Application Chart below use the first 5 pins and ignore the rest. Keep the soldering iron on the bottom of the wire to continue heating it. Sadly most wiring problems are the result of a cascading series of events that can have you tearing your hair out especially if its 4 am.