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Getting wired and hitched - loose wire.

GhostOrchid

GhostOrchid

Junior Ranger
So, I spent the weekend installing a hitch, a brake controller, and a seven-pin connector. Looks good, but won't be sure it all works until we get hooked up in Necedah (this week!)

There's an additional wire coming off the brake controller that I don't think I need. The black one goes through the fire wall to the battery. The blue one goes to the blue wire on the seven-pin for the brakes. The white one goes to ground. Then, there's a red one that the instructions tell me to connect to the cold side of the brake-light switch on the brake pedal? But why? This is a proportional/inertial controller, it doesn't rely on depression of the brake pedal for activation. And don't I already get brake light activation through the regular harness?
 
David,

You do need to connect that brake light interlock wire up. That is there to tell the brake controller that you do actually intend to apply the brakes and that it is not just that you are going down a steep hill or something.

Cary
 
Got everything hooked up and the brakes are working fine. Between the instructions that came with the various pieces, the great support from Cary, Marty and this forum, and some good luck, I was able to install the hitch, the brake controller, the seven-pin connector, and all the wiring myself.

I probably didn't save any money doing it this way. What would have taken a competent installer an hour or less took me several hours over several days. But I know where all the connections are this way and get satisfaction from having done it myself.
 
I think that is great. The more things we can do for ourselves the better. Myself, I'm a failure when it comes to wiring. If something fails and there is not an obvious broken wire I will not know a thing about what to do. I don't even know where the wires run. Congratulations.
 
Fellow geezers may remember the old Firesign Theater bit, "Toad Away," sung to the tune of 'Noel.'

"What can you do when you're toe-owed away-ay."
 
"We're All Bozo's On This Bus" :D

Another favorite was the phrase "Read Me Doctor Memory".
I vaguely recall a Nixon voice...?
I was interested in computers and electronics since junior high so it was extra funny.

Graduated HS the summer of Woodstock.

Ghost, I see you are in Kansas. As you can see from my signature I grew up there.
Lived in KC suburbs in the corner of Shawnee near Overland Park and Lenexa.
Mom still lives in the KC area.
 
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