Wire harness for Bimini top

[On lake time]

I have a 2014 S22. The wiring harness that goes up inside the Bimini top tube is bad. Anchor light won’t come on. But when I plugged the anchor light into the connection at the base of the tube, it lights up. Telling me the wiring is bad. Where can I get a new harness, or is it easier to just run new wires and put plugs on the end?

 

[Jack M]

If you can't get it from a dealer, you can try greatlakesskipper.com. They carry some Bennington OEM parts . Or ebay ?

 

[FIRE UP]

I have a 2014 S22. The wiring harness that goes up inside the Bimini top tube is bad. Anchor light won’t come on. But when I plugged the anchor light into the connection at the base of the tube, it lights up. Telling me the wiring is bad. Where can I get a new harness, or is it easier to just run new wires and put plugs on the end?

On Lake time,
Before I'd go spending money on a new harness, I'd at least try and do some electrical investigation. That is, break out your trusty 12V test light (do you have one or know what one is?) and start doing some probing here and there, leading into that bimini frame. I have the same setup on our '14 25RCL. I have TWO harness's in that bimini frame. One is for the anchor light and the other is for blue LED lights that are mounted every few inches across one of the cross beams of that bimini.
Scott

 

[69jbjohn]

If I remember correctly, there are only 2 wires. Power and ground. Not mush of a harness. Pull 2 new wires through the frame, cut,splice,solder,heat shrink, and you're done.

 

[FIRE UP]

If I remember correctly, there are only 2 wires. Power and ground. Not mush of a harness. Pull 2 new wires through the frame, cut,splice,solder,heat shrink, and you're done.

It would be really, really rare for wires to go "bad" inside that framing unless there's a splice inside that someplace which would be even more rare. Not that it couldn't happen, it could, just rare. I'd still do some probing and back probing of any and all plugs that are associated with that whole light circuit. Quite often pins and contact points inside plugs can corrode even just slightly which is enough to break contact there ya go. And yes, about 99.99999% of all the plugs in all the harness's are water proof and weather proof plugs. But that in some cases, doesn't stop the infiltration of corrosion. I have seen this first hand more often than not.
If there's no issues while investigating and checking for voltage up to a point where the harness enters the framing, well, then time to replace the interior wires in that frame.
Scott