Curt wireless brake controller
If I am reading the info on the Curt site correctly, the brake controller - meaning the accelerometers and the associated circuits that actually activate the brakes - resides within the barrel-shaped adapter that gets plugged into the 7-pin trailer connector (aka Bargman connector) on the back of the tow vehicle. This is done specifically to avoid the need to run a wire from a cockpit-mounted brake controller. Of course the connector-mounted brake controller has to have a source of 12 VDC, both to power its own electronics, and to power the brakes. Since the tow vehicle does not have a 12-volt charge line in the four-pin connector, he had to add one.
It is a clever idea. I'm not sure why I am so uncomfortable with it. I guess it is because I am a crusty old guy, resistant to change.
My question was meant solely to confirm that the required source of 12 VDC was the tow vehicle, not the TM.
Bill
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