Hopkins #46255 tailight converter

[hoosier jaybird]

Well nuts; I bought a Hopkins 46255 converter and when it came the package said it was for trailers with a common brake/turn signal. My Escapade trailer has a separate tail/brake light unit from the turn signal unit. Has anyone used this particular converter in this type of a wiring set up? If so, what modifications have you done? The bulbs are not LED on the bike or trailer. Thanks Jay.

[Gavin_Sons]

I did not use a converter for my trailer. But I did change out all the lights to LED.

[PAVALKER]

I did not use a converter for my trailer. But I did change out all the lights to LED.

All the lights or just the ones on the trailer?   I thought if all LED it needed some kind of load balancer or something like that. 

[Gavin_Sons]

Just on trailer, when they were incandescent you could just barley see the brake lights, since I swapped out to LED they are really bright.

[Brian]

Well nuts; I bought a Hopkins 46255 converter and when it came the package said it was for trailers with a common brake/turn signal. My Escapade trailer has a separate tail/brake light unit from the turn signal unit. Has anyone used this particular converter in this type of a wiring set up? If so, what modifications have you done? The bulbs are not LED on the bike or trailer. Thanks Jay.

I suppose you need to know if the bulbs are one or two element type. When I converted my rear lights to run/brake/turn changing out the sockets to use the 2057 bulbs I too used a Hoppy convertor. The first one I purchased was not supplying enough voltage so the bulbs were dim and so were the LEDs not bright. When I called Hopkins they recommended I try the 46365 unit. This different unit worked great. The LED lights are bright now. So far so good now. Call them for help.

[hoosier jaybird]

Ok, thanks Brian. The tail/brake light unit has a 2 element incandescent bulb for tail and brake light function only. Then there is a separate unit for turn signal only which actually has a 2 element incandescent bulb which apparently only uses one element. I did call their tech help and the fellow I spoke to said the 46255 would not work for my set up and they did not have anything that would work for me. My lights are bright enough but I liked the thought of protecting the bikes lighting circuits. He did say that there are others that may be available. I wanted to run this past you guys for advice before I send it back, Jay.

[Brian]

So let me understand something. You are only talking about the trailer? If it is I apologize as what I did was just for the rear lights on the bike. Sounds like you may have to rewire the trailer. Just my two cents.