Side marker wiring

[bpike]

I've replaced the side marker lamps on my '94 Dutchman. The replacement lights have one single wire coming off of them. I noticed the original lights had 2 wires that were connected to 2 wires on the PUP. I'm assuming one ground and one hot.

On the replacements, I'm also assuming I just hook up the one wire to the hot wire on the pup?

[AustinBoston]

I've replaced the side marker lamps on my '94 Dutchman. The replacement lights have one single wire coming off of them. I noticed the original lights had 2 wires that were connected to 2 wires on the PUP. I'm assuming one ground and one hot.

On the replacements, I'm also assuming I just hook up the one wire to the hot wire on the pup?

The wire the marker light came with is the hot, so that assumtion is correct.

The problem is that on a pop-up, you can't assume the panel is grounded.  The other wire is ground, and the manufacturer probably put it there because they didn't assume the panel the marker light is attached to was grounded.  In other words, you will still need to connect two wires to the lamp.   (You could find a way to secure a ground to the panel, but only if the panel is made of metal.  A plastic panel is not groundable.)

Austin

[bpike]

Good stuff Austin. Thanks.

One more...I need to seal the lights with silicone?

By the way...I was born on Perris Island. Dad was a MSGT from '58 until '78. When he retired he was stationed at Camp LeJeune.

[AustinBoston]

By the way...I was born on Perris Island. Dad was a MSGT from '58 until '78. When he retired he was stationed at Camp LeJeune.

Daughter & her hubby are at Camp LeJeune now.  My granddaughter was born at the Naval Hospital there.

He's expecting to make corporal (I understand they dropped that rank a while back, but they have since resurrected it) in the next few months.

So far they've kept him stateside; there are advantages to being able to shuffle paperwork faster than anyone else.

Austin

[Jeremy]

I just replaced the side marker lights on my pup a couple weeks ago.  The new lamps, like yours had the one lead coming off and the grounding tab for the lamp went to one of the screw holes (using the screw to ground the light to the frame).  Like your camper, I had the + & - leads so I used a crimp barrel connector for the positive lead and used a crimp ring terminal on the negative.  The negative ring terminal/wire is then connected to the ground tab via the mounting screw.