where does the power come from to the brake control center? - I bought a Hopkins Reliance brake control and the plug and play cord to adapt to my truck. ...

willee87 · by **willee87** [OP] » Mar 10 2012, 4:12pm

I bought a Hopkins Reliance brake control and the plug and play cord to adapt to my truck. I plugged it all in and nothing. Anybody else experience this or did i miss something

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tankrat · by **tankrat** » Mar 10 2012, 5:38pm

Some brake controllers require you to "calibrate" them before use. Take a look in your instruction manual, if that's not the issue your best bet is to hook a meter up at you trailer plug & start chasing wires.

willee87 · by **willee87** [OP] » Mar 10 2012, 5:54pm

i read some of the blogs about having to hook up wires under the hood, not sure if my plain jane has everything i need. i added a plug and play 7blade+4 flat RV plug to the back everything there was straight forward.

tankrat · by **tankrat** » Mar 10 2012, 6:57pm

Are you getting power & ground everywhere you should? As stated in some previous posts, there are wires under the hood that need to be connected and/or fused before you'll have power back to your plug.

willee87 · by **willee87** [OP] » Apr 11 2012, 2:39am

Thanks to all replies, I took it to a local trailerhitch installer and found my truck only had a partial trailering harness, it was missing two wires. cheap fix.

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