Warning Hot Brakes?

jeepman71 wrote:
I have a Dodge Ram 6.7 with an e brake and a 2013 Rockwood fifth wheel. We were coming home from about 1200 miles of Colorado mountain driving this week. When I was coming through Denver on I-76 and applied the brakes my Prodigy 3 gave me a "Hot Brakes Warning". The funny thing is that I rarely used my trailer brakes. I stopped in Greeley for about an hour and then headed home, the first time I applied the brakes I got the warning again. I know the brakes were not hot. What could be the problem?

One side note, at one point before I started getting the warning I had the controller set on Power Boost 2, when I applied the brakes the trailer brakes felt like they were grabbing and releasing like I was pumping the brake pedal. This only happened the one time.

Thanks

Are you sure it gives you a "Hot Brakes" and not "Overload" ? There is no way I know of that the Prodigy can measure the temperature of the brakes. Hot Brakes is not in the list of warnings from the Prodigy manual. P3 Manual If you are getting the Overload warning then you have a wiring problem between the controller and the brake magnets or a brake magnet going bad. What is the current reading vs voltage applied. With my two axle trailer I get approximately 1 amp per volt applied.