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    Trailer running lights?

    I replaced all the lights on my trailer with LED's. The brake lights work and blinkers. But none of the running lights work. I used the search feature to look up some info and think it may be a bad ground or bad splice on the brown wire. The question I have is all the running lights have a ground wire. I took the first lights ground wire and connected to the frame and ran a wire from that ground to all the lights on that side (1 wire for the left and 1 wire for the right) Do I need to ground each light separately?

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    Re: Trailer running lights? (Bassin' Brian)

    Each light/fixture needs to be grounded with the screw to the frame or hard wired to a ground wire... Most use the frame.

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    Re: Trailer running lights? (21XDC)

    I have all the lights hard wired to one wire and the lights still don't work.

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    Re: Trailer running lights? (Bassin' Brian)

    Post a pic of the lights so I can see the wires and mounting holes.

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    Re: Trailer running lights? (Bassin' Brian)

    <table width="90%" cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 align=center><tr><td>Quote, originally posted by Bassin’ Brian &raquo;</td></tr><tr><td class="quote">I have all the lights hard wired to one wire and the lights still don't work.</td></tr></table>

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