Nissan NV 2500 Brake Controller

Hopkins Agility Trailer Brake Controller Installation - 2017 Nissan NV 2500

Speaker 1: Today on our 2017 Nissan NV2500 we're going to be taking a look at the Hopkins Agility Trailer Brake Controller for one to four axles. Now it's going to be Part Number HM47295. To help us get it installed we're gong to be using the universal installation kit for trailer brake controllers, Part Number ETBC7, along with 10 feet of extra wire, Part Number ETBCXW.Here's what a brake controller looks like once we have it installed. This is the near proportional brake controller, which means that it's going to apply the brakes at the same time and intensity to our trailer as when we push on the brakes in our Nissan. It's going to be a big benefit over those time delay brake controllers because it's going to have an internal inertia sensor that's going to detect the deceleration or the slowing down of our Nissan and apply the brakes accordingly, wherein a time delay brake controller has a pre-set number and time that it's going to apply the brakes to our trailer.So this is going to be able to accommodate those different hills, different driving conditions, where the time delay one is going to be a pre-set braking amount, no matter how heavy the trailer is or the road conditions.The only stipulation how we're going to mount our brake control is it has to be on a level plane and that it's facing the direction of travel that we're going, so the bottom of the dash is a really easy spot to mount it. We can still see the display and reach the manual override very easily.The manual override is going to be a button, so we can just squeeze and we can see that the numbers are going to show up on the display, and it's going to go from zero all the way up to 99, and that's going to be a percentage of how much power is going to our trailer brakes.On the top here we're going to have our gain setting, which will go all the way up to 99 and all the way down in increments of five down to 5%.