Westfalia 13 pin socket

Find great deals on eBay for westfalia pin socket. Most of the - pin electrical systems come equipped with an appropriate connector (min. mm² cross-section, max. A) and corresponding earth at contact no. Even if towing a caravan with twin 12N and 12S twin plugs some times you may wish to fit a pin socket.

Wide Selection of Car Parts Available. This pin electric wiring kit from Westfalia is made specifically for your MERCEDES-BENZ SPRINTER 5-t Bus.

Free Delivery on Eligible Orders! This - pin electrical kit connects to the existing data bus system in your MERCEDES-BENZ SPRINTER 5-t Bus. After installation of this electrical kit, the car needs to be coded for trailer use.

This system uses one socket with pins inside, instead of the traditional two separate pin sockets. The pin socket is essentially the two pin sockets merged in to one. It was a Westfalia detachable, with pin electrics.

I do not have ATC on my van, but everything else works fine. The Wesfalia bar does not have anywhere for the breakaway cable to fit, so I either wrap it around the towball or I fit the towing eye and put it through there.

Towing plugs and sockets are used to connect the electrics from your car to your caravan, trailer and cycle carrier. Established Outdoor Specialists. Since then I have bought a BackBox with a pin plug, so I wish I had installed the 13pin system and not the 7pin I chose. Pin towbar socket tester is perfect for checking all electrical circuits are working correctly after installation and before towing.

Note – all caravan or trailer road lights should also be checked before every journey. Are all the sockets on the pin connector wired in (or at least the that are used). You can tell by looking into the plug where you should see metal in each of the sockets if connected. Next, This loom looks like it replaces the existing loom for the rear lights, but it looks like it may have too many connections.

Most modern caravans are now being manufactured with a pin plug. Adapter for a 12N pin socket on the vehicle to an ISO pin Euro connector on the trailer. A pin to pin adaptor is used when you have a towbar fitted with pin electrics but need to use a cycle carrier or a caravan that has a pin power plug.

Ensure safety when towing with this compact but useful circuit tester. The short adapter is for connecting trailers from a 7- pin car socket (old) on a -pole pendant connector (new) without using a separate cable. Supplied with carrying pouch. Converters are available to allow you to convert pin plugs to pin or pin to pin. The pin ‘N’ type (12N) plug will still be used on Otrailers and many Towbar fitters will still offer the pin Socket as the cheapest alternative.

Pin Wiring footnote It is possible to get adaptors that convert two pin sockets on the towbar to a single pin ISO socket , and vice versa.

Aside from the increased number of electrical connections offered by the pin system, there. It should normally be 12. I have just received my Westfalia pin towbar electrics. Upon looking at it, when the pin socket is fitted onto the armature bracket, the socket cover will open.

Westfalia Detachable Towbar Detachable towbars allow the removal of the ball neck so they are completely out of sight when not is use. This helps maintain the elegant visual lines in modern cars. Just a quick warning that due to government incompetence if you have this wiring kit (and probably a good deal many others made by Westfalia ) you WILL fail your MOT every time.

British standards institute ) requirements. I understood it,is not to replace missing pins. FI ensured the order showed the towbar with full function pin socket. This is the continental style electrical connection.

Both 12N and 12S electrics are contained within the socket which has pins rather than 7. Electrics 13pin Euro plug supplies all the road lighting live power to the caravan for fridges, charging batteries and running ancillary lights. This can be used on trailers as well again for charging batteries for tippers and winches. This adapter plugs into a - pin socket and creates both a 12N 7- pin flying socket to accept a 7- pin 12N plug and a 12S 7- pin flying socket to accept a 7- pin 12S caravan auxiliary 7- pin plug.