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Old 07-11-2016, 08:38 AM   #1
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I have a 25 foot 1973 Land Yacht, Trade wind. It came with a hand crank hitch elevator (?). I installed an electric one. There is a red power wire to the hitch area. It is used for the break away switch. I tapped into that red power wire to power the Hitch elevator. It worked. I moved the trailer to another part of the yard, and when I went to use the hitch elevator, no power! I opened the electrical wire compartment in the front of the trailer that has the wires for the trailer 7 point plug. I think I found the wire, by adding a wire from the tongue to the interior of the trailer and doing a continuity check. The wire is attached to some kind of solid state relay? That also has a heavy blue wire attached on the same side of the relay? and on the other side of the relay? is a red power wire that is connected to a yellow wire that goes to the 7 point plug. Can any one help me please?
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Sounds to me like a circuit breaker and you tripped it by overloading the circuit.
Perhaps someone here can help with the color code and wire ID.
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I found that the solid state relay I mentioned is a re settable 12v fuse. How do you reset it or can they go bad?
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Again it's a circuit breaker rated for a max load. It may be resetable but more than likely it is an auto reset device. If you don't see a reset button it is not a manual reset device. When the current draw is below the rating it will reset itself.
These devices have been known to fail.
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