Valley Odyssey Electric Brake Controller Typical Installation

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Installation of an Electric Brake Controller


The first step is to figure out where we are going to mount the brake controller. Usually, typically, it is on the right hand side, on the driver side, right about here. And we will go ahead and mark it and then put it up there, mark it, and drill it out to mount it. And next what we will do is mount the brake controller into the bracket and then locate where we are going to run our wires underneath.

Now we are going to open the junction box and insert that cord and we will run that to the junction on the brake controller. This typically goes on the second socket from the left, right here. Go ahead and zip tie up to the framing up here, and probably to this cable right here. Then, the last step that we will do here is put the cover back on the junction block.

After installing the brake controller and applying power you will see that the CL comes on, that stands for calibration. What you want to do in this step is go ahead and hit the vehicle brake, release it, and then hold this button down until the CL disappears. And that is that, it is calibrated. After that you set the amount of power you need for your trailer.

Now, we will do the test to make sure that we have current coming out the back of the seven pole connector. If you just have a simple tester, like what we will use here, I will show you how to do it. A simple trick for the ground is to use the exhaust tube itself, it is always bolted to the engine, which is always grounded, we will go ahead and have somebody hold the brake down and lets try it. It sounds like we have current.


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