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etrailer | How to Set Up Your Tekonsha POD Trailer Brake Controller on a 2017 Dodge Grand Caravan

Click for more info and reviews of this Tekonsha Trailer Brake Controller: https://www.etrailer.com/Trailer-Brak... https://www.etrailer.com Don’t forget to subscribe!    / etrailertv   Full transcript: https://www.etrailer.com/tv-install-t... Today on our 2017 Dodge Grand Caravan we'll be installing a Tekonsha PowerTrac Electronic Brake Controller, part number 39523. To ease our installation we'll be installing our brake controller with our 7-Way Adapter Kit, part number ETBC7. Here's what our brake controller looks like installed. As you can see, it's a nice, slimline design, very simple to operate, and easy to use. This will easily allow us to control trailer brakes on trailers that have up to two axles, making our Caravan a more suitable tow vehicle. This LED, when we don't a trailer connected, there is nothing displayed there. It's just off. When we have a trailer connected, we know we that have a functioning brake system when the green light is displayed. When your brakes are applied, you can see that it changes color to let you know that the brakes are working. Now this is a time delay brake controller versus one that has an inertia switch built inside of it. Because it's time delay this will allow us to mount it at any angle wherever we want inside of our vehicle. Now I want to point out a couple of things here. When we dial down our power of a brakes, when we slide our knob over here for manual override, you can see that our color of the light doesn't change. This is letting us know how much power is being applied. When it's green there's very little power being applied. When we move the knob up, you can see it goes to a yellow color, then orange, then a red. The darker a color, the more intensity and power is being sent to the brakes in your trailer, giving you more aggressive braking. A good suggestion to start with our brakes in the orange position. That's right in the middle. That'll give you a good starting point. You can adjust it down or up to suit your needs or driving style. Now what sets this apart from other brake controllers on the market, besides the fact it's a time delay unit, is this is a very simple to operate unit. There's no buttons. All you have is your power adjustment knob, and your manual override, giving you what you need in order to tow a trailer with up to two axles with electric brakes. Now that we've gone over some of the features of our brake controller, we'll show you how to install it. To begin our installation today we need to find a place to mount our 7-pole. We'll be using one of our long brackets here. It's part number 18136. This will allow us to attach to our hitch using a provided clamp. We'll get that started and we'll tighten down our clamp. Our clamp uses a 5/16 socket and we'll use a 5/16 nut driver. We'll take our 7-pole and our bracket for our 7-pole, slide the wires through the hole, insert it into position, and secure it to the bracket with the provided hardware. With all of our hardware tightened down we'll slide this onto our bracket that we installed, and secure it with the provided hardware. We'll have a flat washer on the bottom, followed by a lock washer, and then a nut. Now where our 4-pole flat connector is on the back of our 7-way, let's cut that off. We'll take our existing 4-pole flat trailer wiring here and measure off about how much we're going to need, and we'll cut off our connector here too. We'll separate all four of our wires. We have our two wires here, our white wire is our ground wire coming from our connector. We'll cut off the excess here. Our purple wire here is for our reverse light input. We're not going to be using this here today so we're just going to cut this back off a little short, and we'll tape up with our wiring bundle, just to protect it, and now we'll tape it all up together with the rest of our wires. We'll feed our wires through this hole in our bracket here now. Pull on up. Now let's strip off some insulation from all our wires that we cut off from our connectors. This white wire here, we'll strip off a little bit more than the rest. This is on the side from our 4-pole flat that was already on our vehicle. We'll start off by putting some heat shrink butt connectors on our end closest to our 7-Way. We'll be using blue ones, which are for 14 to 16 gauge on the smaller diameter wires, and our ground wire, we'll be using one that's yellow. This for 10 to 12 gauge wire. Now we'll start connecting them color for color. Our white wire is our ground on the side from our existing 4-pole flat wiring from when we cut off excess. We'll just twist this together, fold it back in half because this is going to a thicker wire on our 7-way. This will help bite into there easier. Now we'll take our gray duplex wire that comes with our kit, take a utility knife with a sharp blade and we'll go righ