Charging breaksafe 6000 from tow vehicle

[Ashes]

My new caravan comes with a 12 pin flat socket so I will add a 7pin to 12pin adaptor from the black 12N plug. Easy enough. The van has a breaksafe 6000 connected to it and the wiring diagram of the 12 pin flat socket indicates that pin 2 in the 12pin plug needs to be for the breaksafe/aux connection which I assume for a constant 12v to charge the battery on the breaksafe 6000.


Is there a suitable pin on the 12N socket to for this or would I need to pick this up from the 12S socket?

[Tombie]

You'll need to pick up from the 12S

[veebs]

For a 'clean' look, there is a factory part for a 13pin socket for the disco, which replaces the 12N and 12S. You could use that, and either a 12pin flat to 13pin adapter, or rewire the trailer to 13pin to plug in direct.

Other benefit is the spare hole frees up to put an Anderson in :)

[Ashes]

Thanks for the confirmation guys.

This is going to be pretty much a temporary solution as I will be looking to upgrade the D4 in 12-18 months time. If this was a long term solution then creating a 12 pin plug in the disco would have my preferred option.

The options I see are

to create a 12n 12s Y cable into a 12 pin flat plug which should not be terribly hard. I discovered there actually seems to be purpose made wiring made by TYCAB for this. Tycab 8B&S 5 Core Cable (Sold Per Metre) | Outback Equipment (https://www.outbackequipment.com.au/8b-s-5-core-cable-sold-per-metre). This is the way I would go.

or

pick up a 12n 12s to 13 round adaptor A0039 | 12N and 12S Sockets to 13 Pin Plug Adaptor (ringautomotive.com) (https://www.ringautomotive.com/en/product/A0039) and then a 13 pin round to 12 pin flat adaptor. Too many adaptors... I cant find a premade 12n 12s to flat 12 pin adaptor which would be perfect if one existed.

[Eric SDV6SE]

When I had my D4 and we got a camper, the auto electrician who wired up the tekonsha brake controller and fitted the anderson plugs, made a 12n or 12s adapter to a 12 pin flat for me, using proper parts (Narva I think) and this worked very well.

[Ashes]

Yep. I'm going through the process now of finding all the components. 12n and 12s plug (12s is hard to find locally), 5 core cable, 7 core cable, 12 pin flat socket.

[Tombie]

Yep. I'm going through the process now of finding all the components. 12n and 12s plug (12s is hard to find locally), 5 core cable, 7 core cable, 12 pin flat socket.

Did you get a 12S ok? I have a new one here somewhere…

[Ashes]

Yes. Got one. Thanks