Coleman Plug for Battery wiring

[garym053]

Hi!
I'm working on my son's girlfriends Coleman Pop-up, and need help! They do NO dry camping, except with us this coming weekend! I can't see spending the money to buy the plug and battery wires to attach a battery (which we can loan them), for a couple days when they will never need it again!!!

Is it as simple as determining whether the polarity of the white and black wire on the plugend that's there and making connectors to slide over the plug prongs? Seems like a few crimp-on plugs on that end, a few crimp-on rings to attach to the battery on the other end and a 20a inline fuse holder ought to do it!

Am I missing something? Does anyone know the polarity off-hand? Save me a little time!

Thanks for the help!

[mike4947]

White is positive, black is negative. Have a spare fuse on hand and yes you can use other terminals that fit into the Fleetwood connection.

[tlhdoc]

White is positive, black is negative.

Sorry Mike, but you are wrong.  On the Coleman/Fleetwood PUs the POSITIVE wire is BLACK and the NEGATIVE wire isWHITE.  If you have a Coleman/Fleetwood go take a look at it.

[Kelly]

My Palomino is the same way ... Black is Positive and White is Negative ...

[HersheyGirl]

My Jayco is the same way, black is positive and white is negative.

[Steve-o-bud]

On my Coleman, Black is +; White is -;

Also, for 120VAC wiring remember the saying:

Black is Hot, White is Not, Green is Ground the Whole World Round.

Meaning, Black is Hot, White is Neutral, and Green is Ground.

[Gone-Camping]

That's correct, on Coleman/FFT trailers, BLACK is the positive wire, and WHITE is the negative. They are using home wiring color coding, guess the figure that will keep people from getting confused when fiddling with the 120vac lines, keeping everything coded alike.

However, other trailers may use other color coding...my TC uses red for positive, and black for negative on the 12vdc system, and black for positive and white for negative on the 120vac system.

[mike4947]

Now you know why I buy fuses in bulk. Being dslyexic doesn't help matters.

[garym053]

Thanks all! Everything worked fine for the weekend! Mike, perhaps yours has different colors at the battery as my Jayco does! I beleive that most of the battery hook-ups are done at the dealer, and I bet they use whatever they have. My Jayco, for instance, has Red (+) and White (-) at the battery, but if you follow them into the frame, they become Black (+) and White (-). I didn't think of following them back until after I read the posts, so thanks again!

[tlhdoc]

The battery wires are a standard Fleetwood/Coleman part, not a dealer fix.  The battery wires have a clip so you can unplug them when not camping or when you want to use a second battery you can just plug it in.

[garym053]

The battery wiring I was talking about in my last post was on my Jayco, not the Coleman I was working on. At the Battery they are RED and WHITE, but follow them back and the Red is connected to Black in the frame!
I know this set-up was dealer Prep, because I had them install the battery after I purchased the trailer, and I would assume that most mechanics would continue with like colored wiring, but not in this case!