Hi Bobby,

The usual routine for trailer wiring and lights is to use the frame of
the trailer as the white wire return path.

If you look at your wiring, at the trailer tongue end, you will find a
white wire that is attached to the frame - somewhere, probably using a
screw.

At the back end of the trailer, the trailer lights are grounded to the
trailer frame with the mounting screws through the metal mounting
brackets.  The trailer frame is then the extension of the white wire back
to each light

If you want to put your trailer lights on a wooden bar and hang that on
the back of the boat to keep the lights out of the water, then you will
have to splice a wire to the coupler end white wire, run it back to the
bar where you have mounted your lights, and then make a connection
between that wire and each light bracket, so that each light will have a
ground return circuit.

With that wire in place, your lights should work just fine.

Connie

 

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