Brake Controller failure
I am having an intermittent problem with the braking system from my 2000 Ford truck to my 2009 fifth wheel.
The trailer pigtail has to be plugged in before the Pilot brand brake controller will show a red C otherwise it just shows a red dot.
While towing down the road the brake controller looks like it drops out and quits showing any connection and I lose the brakes and lights on the trailer.
The problem is that I don't know whether it is in the controller or the truck wiring or the trailer wiring.
I have a lot of time to find the problem right now if I knew where to start. I have a meter and a test light.
We hadn't towed the trailer for a few years until we took the last trip about 500 miles from home and I didn't know that I lost brakes until we took the exit off of the big highway. The campground was only a couple of miles off the highway and I noticed that the controller wasn't reading while the wife paid for the site.
Anybody know where to start looking at the problem?
The trailer pigtail has to be plugged in before the Pilot brand brake controller will show a red C otherwise it just shows a red dot.
While towing down the road the brake controller looks like it drops out and quits showing any connection and I lose the brakes and lights on the trailer.
The problem is that I don't know whether it is in the controller or the truck wiring or the trailer wiring.
I have a lot of time to find the problem right now if I knew where to start. I have a meter and a test light.
We hadn't towed the trailer for a few years until we took the last trip about 500 miles from home and I didn't know that I lost brakes until we took the exit off of the big highway. The campground was only a couple of miles off the highway and I noticed that the controller wasn't reading while the wife paid for the site.
Anybody know where to start looking at the problem?
