MountainD
Technical Excellence Contributor
I used a Curt brake wiring adapter and a prodigy controller. I spliced into the Green w/Purple stripe wire coming out of the brake master cylinder in the engine bay, feeding it through a grommet in the bulkhead into the interior and splicing it into the Red wire from the Prodigy. I ran the white wire from the Prodigy to a good ground. I ran the black wire from prodigy into an auto-reset circuit breaker 12v supply. The blue wire I ran through the bulkhead and back to the 7-Pin Trailer plug.I added a 2" receiver hitch since we're considering an Opus trailer in the not-to-distant future. I still need to figure out a few things:
1. the best way to handle a 7-pin connector for a trailer
2. a brake controller and
3. whether I want to add a few shims/spacers to better support the gap between the hitch and the frame. I think that normally, you reinstall the tie-down rings, but since I have a Richards chassis, this is narrowed by ~1mm on each side due to the thicker frame material. Sigh.
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for the Curt powered brake controller, I connected to the following wires:
Left Directional=green/red
Right directional= green/white
Brake/ stop lamp= green/purple
Trailer Running lights / tail lights =Red w/ Black tracer
and a good Ground that is corrosion protected, running a #10, I believe, to the frame. I still need to tap into my reverse lights— winter project…