Trailer Brake Controller Wiring Colors

Connect the ground wire to the white wire on controller will attach to the ground on the harness.

Trailer brake controller wiring colors.

For more information on wiring in a brake controller check out the help article i attached that covers this. The trailer brake control and additional plug in wiring harness. There will be four wires each separately labeled on the harness. Blue vehicle wire to blue brake controller wire red 12 volt vehicle wire to black brake controller wire white vehicle wire to white brake controller wire.

The first wire black runs to the vehicle s battery to supply power to the trailer connector. This wire is called the 12 volt hot lead the second wire blue runs to the brake controller to supply power to the trailer brakes. Connect the brake controller harness to the electronic brake controller using barrel crimp connectors. Splice the wires from the vehicle to the brake controller harness matching the colors as follows.

The wires exiting the rear of your controller serve the following functions. The blue wires carries the brake output from the controller the white wire is the ground the black wire supplies 12 volt power and the red wire is tied into the vehicle brake wiring. The green is labeled stop lamp so that will go to the stop lamp circuit on your brake controller which in our case will be red. And then you have the extra wire here which is labeled illumination feed.

So that would go to black the 12 volt power supply wire on the brake controller. Trailer wiring diagram and color chart. Click for more info and reviews of this tekonsha trailer brake controller. The colors of the remaining four wires.

The 5th pin a blue wire gives power to operate or disable the trailer brakes. The brake controller comes with a wiring harness that is the kind you have to splice into your vehicle s wiring. Wiring a 7 way trailer connector if existing wire colors dont match troubleshooting the 12 volt power circuit on the 7 way of a 2008 chevy silverado 2500 troubleshooting brake controller in 2016 chevy silverado that stopped working. Traditional trailer with brakes use a 5 pin connector.

Then you have the two wires left the green and the brown. If you have never done wiring on a car before you might not want to attempt this install as your first wiring project.