How To Wire A Trailer With Electric Brakes

Even with a standard minimum of 16 gauge cables used in some trailer circuits elecbrakes functions correctly. If the trailer wiring is running down the left side of the trailer then we splice the left side brake assemblies into the main electric brake power wire coming from the 7 way connector.

Basic Electric Trailer Brake Wiring Diagram Wiring Diagram

Assortment of electric trailer brake wiring schematic.

How to wire a trailer with electric brakes. A wiring diagram is a streamlined conventional pictorial representation of an electric circuit. We then run a jumper wire from the electric brake power wire to the right side brake assemblies see photo. I go over all the basics on wiring up your vehicle trailer harness and electric brakes.

Trailer feed blue wire is the wire that allows power for the controller to the 6 way or 7 way trailer connector at the back of the vehicle. It also talks about electric brake controller. The brake controller comes with a wiring harness that is the kind you have to splice into your vehicles wiring.

This is a 12 inch electric brake assembly for the left hand side of the trailer rated at 6000 pounds from dexter. It is actually pretty easy to do. It reveals the parts of the circuit as streamlined forms as well as the power and signal connections in between the gadgets.

Blue electric brakes or hydraulic reverse disable see blue wire notes below in the trailer wiring diagram and connector application chart below use the first 5 pins and ignore the rest. If you are lucky and have the factory tow package already installed you may already have this wire running from under the dash to the rear of the vehicle. It would not.

When comparing wire thickness a smaller gauge number represents a thicker wire. There is a range of wire sizes available for trailer circuits and electric brake wiring. Traditional trailer with brakes use a 5 pin connector.

There are a couple of things. Today on this enclosed trailer were going to install part number 23 105. This short video is about trailer brakes electric brakes and wiring.

1 4 wire the first 4 pins white brown yellow green just like the 4 pin connector above. Today we are going to show you how to install brakes on a trailer that does not have existing brakes. What gauge wire for electric trailer brakes.

Thanks for watching. If you have never done wiring on a car before you might not want to attempt this install as your first wiring project. It is just very time consuming.