Single wire with no connection

[CaCraig]

This brown wire is in the closet behind the curbside bed. The bed light works, I haven't tested the thermostat yet. The parking light on the curbside is not working. I looked in the grommet for the other end of the wire but I didn't see it. Has anyone done work in this area that can tell me what it goes to? I'll check it for power today.

[mefly2]

Ground wire?

[AWCHIEF]

Mystery wires. My Bambi II had them running all thru the trailer, the Safari also has several that have me baffled.

[CaCraig]

I was thinking ground wire too. The problem is, the bathroom door slides between the closet wall and the wall behind the twin bed. I can't see to trace the wire. It also seems like a strange place for AS to put an electrical connection.

[idroba]

Ground wires in Airstreams have been White for many years, including the '70's. Thermostat wires are in pairs, and are generally blue in Airstreams.

If it has + 12 volts on it, tape it off and don't worry about it. In 44 years lots of PO's have messed with things.

[CaCraig]

I'm the 3rd owner and the 2nd owner parked it and never used it. I bought it because everything's original and it hasn't been molested.

I'd love to just tape it off but I need to figure out why my curbside tail light isn't getting power.

[TG Twinkie]

If it is associated with the tail/marker lights I would not think it would be inside the inner skin. Besides that, the fact that there is a connector on it tells me it was used or was intended for use to power some device.
Schematics are available. Some one should be able to help with that.


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[CaCraig]

I have the service manual for 1972 but I don't think it goes into that much detail.
I looked inside the battery compartment towards the curbside brake light and I didn't see any wires so I thought they must be behind the skin.

I guess I should go to Harbor Freight and pick up one of those line tracer things. hopefully it works through the interior aluminum skin.

[TLBIJOU]

I bought a wire tracer just for this type of problem, will work through the aluminum no problem. Just be sure all power is off or won't work. It traces the a different frequency that's applied to one wire and traced with the tracer.

[CaCraig]

Well it looks like that brown wire is half of the thermostat wires. I pulled it out a bit from the hole and it's attached to the other half. Now I need to find the other half.