Trailer brake controller install question
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Trailer brake controller install question
I just bought a 2000 Dodge 2500 and I was going to install a brake controller. The truck has the blue plug under the dash and I have the harness for it. My question is is it just plug and play or am I going to have to run the power wire and the wire going to the trailer plug?
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I've had a Tekonsha voyager that I took out of another truck that I had before I sold it. I'm sure it's not the greatest, but it will work for now. I'm to broke to buy a good one, but I have heard that the max brake is one of the best ones.
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Max brake is one of the best, I have one in my truck. Unfortunately, the company decided to stop making them and got out of that business altogether.
Your Voyager is a proportional type controller. It is way better than the cheap time delay type controllers.
Your Voyager is a proportional type controller. It is way better than the cheap time delay type controllers.
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Well it's installed, now I just have to test it and see if it's working. I had to use an online diagram of the controller to wire it up and the only wire that matches both is the blue one.
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Well I just rewired the trailer plug, it had a broken pin in it, now the green led for the controller stays on constantly, so now I'm thinking that I have to run a wire from the blue wire to the plug, which will be fine, just more work than I really wanted to put into it.
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Finally got the thing fixed. The plug in had happened to have led test lights on it and I made the controller think that there was a trailer hooked up, changed that out to one without the test lights and the led only comes on with a trailer hooked up
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