testing electric brakes without t.v.
The last time I moved my 5rd, the brake controller on my f 350 flashed a brake issue error message. They worked when I moved manual brake lever on the controller or engaging foot brake. I suspect on...
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westend wrote:But the OP would have to disconnect the wire to each wheel to do that.
If you pull the emergency break-away pin it will power up all the brakes. I wouldn't leave the brakes energized for more than a few minutes at a time since the magnets could suffer from the heat.
Your idea of an independent powered lead to each wire set will work, also.
Pulling the break-away pin is much easier and faster!
With each wheel jacked up (or even one side of the trailer) it would be easy to spin each wheel to see if there is an issue.
But it sounds to me that the OP may have a chafed wire which is intermittently shorting to trailer ground. Checking each brake will probably not find that.
