The anderson plug is most commonly used to charge the batteries in your trailer or caravan when you are driving. This circuit is very simple.
Correctly Installing The Wire Connectors Into And Anderson Connector
Anderson plug wiring diagram for caravan. The 12 pin flat plug have a second row of 5 larger points which will accept up to 6mm auto cable. We always request a wiring diagram from the caravan or trailer manufacturer to confirm what needs to be wired to what pin. Attach the anderson plug connectors to the 6mm wire. Lastly we have the anderson plugs. Attach the connectors to the vehicles battery ensuring positive to positive negative to negative. Red anderson plug if required.
Fit the anderson plug to the towbar. If you can get a wiring diagram from your caravan manufacturer before we wire your car we can ensure every circuit will be in the right place to match your caravan first time. If you have requested alko esc safety feature to be fitted to your new age caravan you will also require a red anderson plug to be fitted to your tow vehicle. Anderson plug with large charge wires. Connect the inline fuse and connectors to the 6mm wire. This is wired directly to the tow vehicles battery using a 6mm cable through a 30amp fuse or circuit breaker.
The inline fuse it connected to the positive wire. Trailer plug wiring diagrams use the correct size cable for the plugsocket most standard plugs will accept up to a 4mm auto cable easily. For instance some common locations for a fridge wire are pin 2 pin 8 pin 9 pin 11 or it could be through an anderson plug. It runs large cables almost like battery cable size which are often 6 bs around 13mm in total diameter and run from the car battery directly to the caravan battery via large maxi fuses and through the hardy anderson plug.