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Pilot 2-6 Brake Electronic Brake Controller - Time Delayed

80550 $84.95

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Review of the Pilot 2-6 Brake Electronic Brake Controller

Today we are going to show you part number 39518 from Hidden Hitch. This is the Pilot 1 to 3 axle electronic brake controller. This is the time delay version. What is really nice about this brake controller is that it offers you 2 different options on mounting it to your vehicle. You can mount it with the traditional bracket or the ballmount where you can mount it at an angle and put it in any position you want. It does have a LED numeric display that shows the voltage output, which is nice. There is even a way that, if you want to mount it upside down, the numbers on the display will stay right side up. Another nice feature is that it has diagnostic that tells you if a wire has a short or not.

Now we will show you how it works. First off we will talk about the manual override which is the button on the side here. What that does is it activates the trailer brakes by themselves. Also on the left hand side there is a thumb wheel. It is really easy to use. This controls is the total output of the brake controller itself. All the way over towards the front is full power and then back towards the rear of the vehicle will be practically off. It is also nice that you can see here on the LED display it says C which tells you that it is connected to the trailer. Also when you hit your brakes it does a numeric display. It shows that in voltage too, so we have a full 12 volts going out.

Next we will show you what is in the box, obviously the brake controller itself. And also the 2 mounting brackets right here. One is for traditional mounting where it mounts towards the rear of your brake controller. And then also, we have this mount here where the mounting bracket is round or ball type bracket. You can actually move this as you need it to accommodate your dash. And it does come with all of the necessary hardware to install it. There you have it for part number 39518, the Pilot 1 to 3 axle Electronic Brake Controller from Hidden Hitch.

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