Military trailer to civilian vehicle cable

[Poccur]

Mama always said you make more friends with a gift that you will by kind words alone so....

I have a diagram for hooking your Mil trailer to your civilian vehicle. Sure the trailer is 24vdc and your civilian vehicle is 12vdc but the lights will work (just a bit dimmer) and it is much easier to carry a short cable than a full set of magnetic lights when you need to move a trailer.
Moderators, apologies if this already exists on the site, I did some searches but found no hits. Hope this is of use to you.

Cheers

Poccur

 

[Jones]

Welcome to the site; and thanks for the wiring diagram. Lots of guys with mil. trailers have run into the same what-wire-goes-where problem and this will help a lot. A conversion jumper cable lets you keep the trailer original for mil. veh. to mil. trailer hook-ups.
On the off-chance you're going the other way (mil. vehicle to civilian trailer), a handy link for trailer schematics is www.accessconnect.com/trailer_wiring_diagram.htm

 

[Poccur]

I should probably include the caveat that this works on the trailers currently used with the HMMWV but I see no reason why the Military would have different wiring for each vehicle....

Cheers

Poccur

 

[NCmountainman]

Thanks for the diagram. And welcome to the site!

 

[Jones]

That's the beauty of M-series vehicles; the number XX wire will be the same circuit whether it's a jeep or a ten-ton wrecker.

 

[nickd]

I just put a military trailer receptacle on my truck.