Trailer Brake Controller Wiring Colors

For more information on wiring in a brake controller check out the help article i attached that covers this.

Trailer brake controller wiring colors.

There will be four wires each separately labeled on the harness. 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. 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. The traditional wire colors for brake controller installation are white for ground black for 12 volt power red for stoplight switch and blue for brake output.

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. Splice the wires from the vehicle to the brake controller harness matching the colors as follows. So that would go to black the 12 volt power supply wire on the brake controller. 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.

The trailer brake control and additional plug in wiring harness. Click for more info and reviews of this tekonsha trailer brake controller. The colors of the remaining four wires. If you have never done wiring on a car before you might not want to attempt this install as your first wiring project.

1 4 wire the first 4 pins white brown yellow green just like the 4 pin connector above. And then you have the extra wire here which is labeled illumination feed. Traditional trailer with brakes use a 5 pin connector. The wires exiting the rear of your controller serve the following functions.

Connect the brake controller harness to the electronic brake controller using barrel crimp connectors. The first wire black runs to the vehicle s battery to supply power to the trailer connector. Then you have the two wires left the green and the brown. Trailer wiring diagram and color chart.

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