Brake Controller / electric hydraulic brakes
Hi folks. I have a 2015 Ram 3500 with factory integrated brake controller - it seems to work fine with my 5ver and other electric brake trailers. I bought a brand new deck trailer with electric ...
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Had some time today and used neighbours truck to establish normal operations.
With trailer brake module attached and truck on heavy electric brake the pump fires up, remove module it does not.
Changed to heavy electric hydraulic pump fires up.
reconnected the brake module pump fires up. I'd prefer to leave the module as I may tow with an f450 every now and then.
I realize the may be useless info as no load was attached, but voltage on all pins is within 1 volt between both trucks.
I thought I could create load for the brake controller to see by using a headlight and paralleled it with the brake (blue) and ground (white) the light came on, the dash indicated that the trailer had been disconnected so of course no pump , did not try disconnecting the blue and attaching the light in series.
I'm going to check the splice tomorrow. Still - 15c (1 f) here and my fingers can only fumble about without gloves for an hour or so at a time before sunset.
thanks for the input so far.
Cheers.
With trailer brake module attached and truck on heavy electric brake the pump fires up, remove module it does not.
Changed to heavy electric hydraulic pump fires up.
reconnected the brake module pump fires up. I'd prefer to leave the module as I may tow with an f450 every now and then.
I realize the may be useless info as no load was attached, but voltage on all pins is within 1 volt between both trucks.
I thought I could create load for the brake controller to see by using a headlight and paralleled it with the brake (blue) and ground (white) the light came on, the dash indicated that the trailer had been disconnected so of course no pump , did not try disconnecting the blue and attaching the light in series.
I'm going to check the splice tomorrow. Still - 15c (1 f) here and my fingers can only fumble about without gloves for an hour or so at a time before sunset.
thanks for the input so far.
Cheers.
