Trailer light wiring question

[zoom45]

Can you run regular lights and LED lights on the same trailer light circuit?
Here's what I have: My bike is wired with the the hoppy converter and my trailer has 4 each regular lights. Never had a problem towing it and everything is good. My hitch box has LED lights on it. Plug it in to the bike and everything works fine no problems. My hitch box is made where I can slide it in the back of my trailer so I added a connector for the plug in which is wired into the trailer wiring so I can run all 6 lights at the same time (4 regular and 2 LED). All the wires match the trailer wiring and a test light shows it working properly at the plug in for the new hitch box plug. My hitch box lights don't work when the trailer wires are connected to the bike. I can unplug the trailer plug at the bike and connect the hitch box alone and it works fine. Weird but I'm guessing you can't mix regular lights and LED lights together but if thats so, why does the regular bike lights and the hitch box LED lights work fine together when the trailer is not connected.





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[toophun]

Boy, that's one for Cactus Jack! My guess is no, but only a guess. Just finished my trailer and he helped me do my Hoppy converter. He said he's gonna be checking in from Custer. Good luck!

[ringadingh]

LED's do strange things in some circuits, to compound it you have a Hoppy converter as well. This combination can make for some weird symptoms sometimes. Sorry but I don't know enough either about the way it works in your scenario.

[zoom45]

What's weird my trailer works fine connected to the bike. Without the trailer the LED works fine on the hitch box. The same voltage and and wiring connection is at the back of the trailer. It seems like if the charging system would put out enough you could put an infinite numer of lights in the series. Add 2 led's and they don't work but the regular lights still work. Take the trailer out of the series and the led's will work. I may try some regular lights on the hitch box just to double check my wiring connection.
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[macmac]

The hoppy doesn't know the bike has resistors for the leds. The trailer needs what ever reisistors you have in the bike, unless i am wrong!

[metalman]

Yes, LED lights and standard incandescents will work fine on the same circuit. I would check to be sure that you have a good ground in the situation where the LEDs are not working. Also make sure that the polarity (+,-) is correct. Incandescents will work fine with reversed polarity but LEDs will not.

[Yellow Jacket]

I agree with metalman. If the hitch box LEDs work fine plugged into the hitch on the bike and the trailer works fine plugged into the hitch on the bike but the hitch box LEDs don't work when plugged into the back of the trailer then something is wrong with the wiring at the back of the trailer. (Whew! What a sentence.)

[zoom45]

Got it fixed and you were right. I had the plug at the rear of the trailer wired wrong. LED and regular lights will work together. Now I have all 6 lights on the trailer working properly.

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