I Made An RV Glow Plug!

[bama_ed]

Folks,

When I was camping this past weekend in Ohio, my cousin Tom across the road from me had something neat going. He has an old Jayco popup and in the evening he lit up his running lights on the trailer and they burned steady all night which I thought was kinda neat. He's one of the "gadget guys" in the family. Anyway, he showed me how he did it and I got home this week and made one tonight. It's pretty simple and it will look good at Gulf or at the Fort.



Instructions are on the internet and it sounds harder than it is. If you have a 7 blade plug connection between your trailer and the tow vehicle, you're in luck-I can help. If anyone wants the shortcut details, let me know. It ain't hard (I mean if I can do it, well .....) .

Bama Ed

 

[tiggerdad]

You can let me know. I think SouthAlabama5er does something similar with his and it looks pretty good because he went and put all LED lights around his.

Let me know.

 

[peg110]

I am just imagining myself what's involved. Really shouldn't be that hard but one could certainly get elaborate with it.

 

[parrothead64]

All I do is put a 30 amp fuse in the top two plugs of the trailer plug. You have to be hooked up to electric of course.
Some people use a paper clip and they sell gadgets. Very simple. If you use a flasher, they will blink.

 

[Teamubr]

Parrothead beat me to it. This trick has gone around on the RV forums for awhile. I just used a 12 gauge jumper wire on the electrical pigtail. It does look cool and a lot of people did this camping at a NASCAR race. It helps locate your camper. Especially after consuming a few too many of the sponsors product. All I could think about was how often I would be replacing the bulbs.

j

 

[peg110]

Parrothead beat me to it. This trick has gone around on the RV forums for awhile. I just used a 12 gauge jumper wire on the electrical pigtail. It does look cool and a lot of people did this camping at a NASCAR race. It helps locate your camper. Especially after consuming a few too many of the sponsors product. All I could think about was how often I would be replacing the bulbs.

j

LED's. Last longer and uses less electricity!

 

[tiggerdad]

LED's. Last longer and uses less electricity!

Thats what SouthAlabama5er did with all his.

 

[bama_ed]

Some people use a paper clip

Can't do that, parrothead64. DW would deem that a fire hazard and not up to code.

Parrothead beat me to it. This trick has gone around on the RV forums for awhile. j

Ok Jim, thanks for letting me know. I'm not that old so I've not seen it yet.

I just used a 12 gauge jumper wire on the electrical pigtail. j

DW would call that another fire hazard. She still has her Safety Award from 3rd grade for helping the Crossing Guard.

All I could think about was how often I would be replacing the bulbs. j

Santa might bring me some LED replacement lights this Christmas.

You can let me know. I think SouthAlabama5er does something similar with his and it looks pretty good because he went and put all LED lights around his.

I'm not surprised at that, tiggerdad. SA5er is "bleeding edge".

So here's what you do.

Go to Wal-Mart and buy this for about $7 and change.



Undo the two silver screws on either side of the black body and using a screwdriver, push it through the hole in back and force the 7 blade piece out of the housing.

Using any wire you have, run a wire between any two adjacent screws on the backside.



Then plug this into the end of your trailer cable (the end that plugs into the tow vehicle). Rotate the plug around each blade and keep trying until you hit the motherlode. Basically you're jumping the running lights to the 12V wire in the cable (they are adjacent wires in the cable). And when you're plugged into shore power, you're pulling power from the pedestal.

Anyway, that's the Reader's Digest version.

Bama Ed

 

[Teamubr]

DW would call that another fire hazard. She still has her Safety Award from 3rd grade for helping the Crossing Guard.

Na. It's all 12 volt stuff. Unless I have some steel wool, it won't burn anything.

Santa might bring me some LED replacement lights this Christmas.

That would be sweet. My new one has LEDs in the upper front corner lights, but everything else on the outside is incandescent.





FANCY!

j

 

[tiggerdad]

Thanks Ed. SA5er tried to educate me on this one.