LC 200 electric brakes pick up point for installation?

Graeme,

The electrickery on the LC200 is quite involved. I had my dealer do all that stuff just so there was no comeback on me or a third party if something goes wrong.

All the other stuff that only needed a connection direct to the battery I did myself and made sure it was not connected to the OEM wiring in any way.

This is what I do for a living and have done for 38 years.....but I will not tell you how to do it I'm sorry.

The current systems are VERY susceptible to transient and spurious voltages when plugging in and unplugging equipment, things and harnesses. A very simple mixup in the hookup sequence can see you having to replace the BCM or/and the ECU. Read a bleep load of dollars.

There is a reason people train for years at great expense to charge you money to plug in your 'plug and play' harness/equipment.

So, good luck.

Id be paying an expert to do it

G'day, Redarc instructions are usually pretty clear, if not, email them or ring them

On my 200 I did the following to fit a Tekonsha
if you are agile stick your head into the driver footwell and find the plug near the brake pedal that goes to the switch.
From memory it has 4 wires in it.
Find which of the 4 is the one that lights up when pedal is pushed with your digital multimeter into the back of the plug (while its still plugged in).
Once you have identified it, separate the plug and using a fairly small wire (similar to the existing brake wire) remove insulation of about 10mm (from memory), slip if into the terminal you identified then push the plug back together with the wire trapped in the relevant plug.
Be careful of course that no stray strands bridge other terminals.
Use this as the signal wire to your controller.
If you use a wire from the rear brake light, when activating the manual brake control, neither your brake lights will activate nor you cruise control will disengage.

I didnt use a Redarc (dont like them too much) but on the Tekonsha the brake feed is a signal trace only-Id be pretty sure the Redarc is similar.

Mine has been running perfectly for 12 months towing my boat with electric over hydraulic system.

You need to pick up a trigger downstream from the computer. Easiest place I have found is the wire (power) leading directly to the rear brake lights. In a couple of installations I have done, the place to physically make the connection is in the loom in the driver's door sill. Doing it in the sill saves running a wire all the way back from the rear brake light assembly.

Do not try connecting directly to the brake light switch. Do run power to the controller direct (fused) from the battery.

In use, make sure you do some reading on the issues around using motion sensing brake controllers, especially in the emergency situation.

Iza

There is nothing fancy about the 200 series and brake controllers, picking up from the pedal is fine as is from the back.

But like most things even if you got correct or misleading information it is your responsibility to double and triple check to see if the information supplied is correct.

As for giving information out I'm with "John and Regina M".... not because I want to make money out of someone but the chances of legal action if something happened to the vehicle or worse human life. If humane life was involved and the police and state coroner got involved there is a very real chance of legal action being taken against all involved that could lead to imprisonment or high financial costs for all involved including the forum owners.

How about running twin core (of adequate size) from the brake light of your trailer plug up to your controller, then running the other wire from the controller to the trailer plug as your brake activating wire for the trailer brakes?

If you pick up at the brake light rather than pedal;
1/ the cruise control will not deactivate when applying manual trailer bakes
2/ the brake lights will not activate when applying manual trailer brakes.

Which do you reckon will be safer and LEGAL?
Im no stickler for the law as such but would prefer to avoid being snotted from behind when applying the trailer brakes to straighten it out.

The correct way, and easiest way, apart from removing the inside panels, is to connect it directly to the blue cable tag to,the rear of the trailer lighting module. This is located inside the rear drivers side quarter panel. Yes, you do have remove the third row seat to do this. The plastic panel and the door jamb panels simply click out. There are a number of bolts you have to undo, such as seat belt mounts but most people,should be capable of doing this. Have a loo on the LCOOL forum.