Prodigy 2 brake controller.. not working?

G'day Boo Boo. Mate, mine is hooked up directly to the battery via a relay. Doesn't go via the ignition switch.

Automatically activates as soon as I activate the brake pedal, and turns itself off after a few minutes if the brakes are not used, such as parking the vehicle.

Good luck mate.

Fred

Perhaps you could trace the wires.

They should be Black goes to battery via a fuse or circuit breaker
White is earth
Red is from the brake light circuit
Blue goes to pin 5 on a trailer plug preferably not via a towing loom.

When in idle mode should have two little lights for about 10 mins.

They are not normally run through an ignition circuit.

Best of luck.

Boo Boo
Sorry to hear that you are driven nuts, by your electric brakes. It happened to me too.

Just keep in mind that all I want to do is just feel the trailer, and not have the trailer stop the Patrol.
ie.... the trailer takes care of itself, and the braking distance of the Patrol does not increase


One thing I did was to replace the feed wires, I used a minimum of 50 amp multicore wire, from the rear of the controller, to the plug at the rear of my vehicle.
I want virtually no voltage drop.
Also from the plug to the brakes themselves I am sure that I used 30 amp multicore, again for the same reason, (no voltage drop).

Just trying to eliminate any problems

A heavy earth wire, was taken back to the same battery that powers the Prodigy.

Think I got it right !

And guess what after all that ?

Still weak as, !

As I have said in previous posts, eventually, with some education, and reading, everything worked well in the Navara.

Same Autolec used, when I swapped vehicles.
Same camper trailer, just 2 months later.

I took it back to the Autolec, and we even jacked up a wheel, I threw the lever and he could still turn the wheel..
That never happened with the Navara, and if anything I had to back everything off to a minimum, or else she would all lock up.

You go figure

The only thing left to do is replace or get original brake drums and magnets, or just go back to the Voyager

Hope you do not go thru the same frustrating things I have.
Cheers
Bucky

Well I think I have fixed the problem.

It was quite simple really. I cut the blue wire and connected a temporary wire and ran it back to the 7 pin plug.

Pressed the brake pedal and power came on at pin 5. Release the brake pedal and power went off.

I still don't know where the live wire that was in the 5 pin came from, so I'll tape it over for the time being and try and trace it when I have time.

I also cannot find where the blue wire has gone.

It will have to remain one of lifes little mysteries until I have some time to track the wires.

Thanks again for your help gentlemen your input actually triggered the idea of another wire.