brakes not working help
My father is about to leave with his travel trailer and notice his electric brakes are not working it is like the truck does not even recognize them no display on brake controller but all lights on tr...
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If it's an electronic brake controller, you should be able to use a TEST LAMP from "brake" to "ground" and see the controller light up as if there's a trailer connected. Then the lamp should brighten when you squeeze the manual braking feature on the controller. I say LAMP because a meter doesn't have enough resistance for the controller to "see" it.
We hitched up a trailer and had "no braking" only to find somebody'd disturbed the controller settings in the several months since last use. This Tekonsha Voyager controller has two knobs. One is initial setting of the intertia sensor and the other is the degree of brake response. Response had been set to Zero. For this reason, I suggest getting controllers with digital readout for the response setting. We'd've seen right away there was nothing dialed in. Also you can go between numbers depending on conditions. With the Voyager, we had to do it by feel.
The actual braking circuit's around 30Amps. An RV shop I spoke with said they leave the fuse if the vehicle's pre-wired for a controller, but incorporate an auto-reset circuit breaker if they add wiring themselves. What I said here is based on what I learned about Fords.
We hitched up a trailer and had "no braking" only to find somebody'd disturbed the controller settings in the several months since last use. This Tekonsha Voyager controller has two knobs. One is initial setting of the intertia sensor and the other is the degree of brake response. Response had been set to Zero. For this reason, I suggest getting controllers with digital readout for the response setting. We'd've seen right away there was nothing dialed in. Also you can go between numbers depending on conditions. With the Voyager, we had to do it by feel.
The actual braking circuit's around 30Amps. An RV shop I spoke with said they leave the fuse if the vehicle's pre-wired for a controller, but incorporate an auto-reset circuit breaker if they add wiring themselves. What I said here is based on what I learned about Fords.
