Tail Light Wiring

I agree with you, Tim. I own nine of those Battery MINDer(tm) chargers, seven 12117's and two 12248's. I use them exclusively on all my vehicles and equipment.

Do they work? Yep...I recently replaced the two Delco 78DT-7yr's in my '82 GMC 6.2L diesel pickup after only 11 years of infrequent use. They were still good, truck starts fine, every time. I only replaced them because my wife was going to use the truck to move some friends, lots of stops & starts, I can't see taking a chance after 11 years. I only drive it about 1000 miles a year, so it sits in an unheated machine shed most of it's life. Battery date code was 12-01, I even found the original purchase invoice. The price went up slightly and "nope, they wouldn't warranty them".........(-:

This pattern is duplicated on most of my stuff, the batteries last way, way beyond the normal lifespan since I started using the chargers. I even get many more years out of the the small U1's than I experienced before I bought them. They're a great choice, I highly recommend them.

Hey guys. I've done some research on battery tender brand trickle chargers. My neighbor has his three harley's all hooked to a different brand. Each bike has its own charger. He swears by them and claims that he will never buy another battery in his life time.

Now for the negative stories. A local plumbing shop had there trencher hooked to a battery tender brand and it boiled the battery dry. I heard the same story from the owner of the local harley dealership, He had a battery tender on his porche and it to boiled the battery dry.

I bought two battery tenders, one for my 318 and the other for my X720. After hearing the horror stories I came up with a plan and it seems to be working well. What I do is once a month (or when I remember) I plug in the 318, after a few hours or over night it is locked in. Meaning that its not charging, its got a solid green light (not a flashing green light)this means that the tender is sitting idle and not charging. So I then un-plug the 318 and plug the same charger into the X720. I repeat that process with my 4wheeler, boat, truck that is only used once in a while, and my winch battery.

What I mean by plug in, is on the 318, X720, and 4wheeler I have the pig tails that bolt directly to the battery terminals. Like TimS stated, I have the plug coming out of the body work in a nice discrete location. I only do this routine through the winter months.

Didn't have the extra yellow wire anywhere so did a splice. Had no clue how to do this, very little wiring experience here, so hardware store guy assisted. Thought I'd post all this in case someone else looking to add tail lights is as clueless as I.

Used these to tie into headlight wire and tie tail lights together. Tail lights are grounded at screw mounts, ground paint off at light/pan and pan/frame.




Ran wire back with the seat safety switch, added quick coupler so pan can be removed if necessary.


Let there be lights!! Will be nice to have some light in back moving snow in the dark, plus I live on a 55 mph road that can get busy so a bit more visibility.

Yay... congrats. The JD reflector cost me $11 at my local dealer and took 2 weeks. Meanwhile one day I was roaming auto aisles in Walmart and found exact size LED tail lamp (it was being sold as 'marker lamps') for $7 each! It perfectly fit the 212 and ended up picking up the reflector from dealer which came a week later! LOL. Here is what how it turned out for me too.

I used a 'shark tubing' (home depot plumbing section) from under dash to the back beneath the tub and ran 2 wires - Green for LED tail lamps & Yellow for add on rear light to come later. Finally installed the real light 2 weeks ago. Here are pictures of both.