? about braking indicator light.

j-d wrote:
Brake Buddy, like others, come with Gee-Whiz Electronics to confirm that everything is hunky-dory.
What Butch wants is something simple and independent to keep all that electronics honest. Brake goes down, Light goes on.
For a vehicle with a roof rack, like Crosstrek, I'd consider connecting to the high-mounted "third" brake light and putting an Amber LED Turn Signal light on the rack facing forward.
Butch, you must have a different rear view "look" than we do. I can barely see the roof of our Nissan Frontier pickup from the inside rear view mirror of the coach. And can't see the sides at all except in a sharp turn. So for us, something on he front side of the inside mirror of the toad wouldn't work. Would work with a rearview camera on the coach but we don't have one.
Hate to run wire to a light in the coach, but that might be my answer.
If I could see a light in or on the toad, that's what I'd do. To me, the idea is to keep the fail-safe warning as simple as possible.
I suggested Amber because it's not legal to show a red light forward, and Signal because I don't think a running or marker light would be visible under all conditions. LED because it'd work on small gauge wire and not cause any imbalance in the toad's lighting system.

You are 100% right in what I'm looking to do. Plain and simple, simple for kind of a simple guy like me. Good Idea of the amber LED lights. I do have a rear view camera and I can see the front of my toad through it. I wouldn't keep the camera on it all of the time but I do use it to look back periodically to make sure everything is ok with the toad. So I would be able to check the brake pedal position also at that time. On my Stealth brake system it tells me when the brakes are applied by the unit as the controller has a "bb" that appears in a screen on the unit to show brakes are applied but it does not tell me if for some reason when the controller releases the brakes that they actually did release. With the Stealth brake system there is nothing to slide around to engage the brakes but it does have a cable running from under the driver seat to the brake pedal and as we know cables an at times bind up and not release the brake pedal back to the normal position.

I guess a real simple way of doing it would be put a mirror on the back of the toad that looked forward to the front of the motorhome. Then if the brake lights are on when you are not stepping on the brakes the brake lights would be on and you could see it in the MH mirror looking at the mirror on the toad. Kind of a Mickey Mouse setup but it would work I guess.