Trailer Brake Issue

GlueGuy your absolutely correct, my bad sorry. Why I wrote HIGH resistance when I was writing my post and thinking LOW is beyond me? They make specific meter for reading very low resistance and they are great when trying to trace out a short, wish I owned one. 

I downloaded and printed out information on how a 7 pin connector is wired into a trailer. Then with these drawings I slid under the Rpod to see how the trailer brakes are wired and its left me with more questions then answers. I hope some of you here who have more knowledge of trailer wiring them me can help?

First, I under stand that Forest River unfortunately didn’t follow the standard color code you’ll find on trailer schematics. That’s why instead of single blue and white wire going to the trailer brakes you see white, white/black, white/blue connected to what looks like green wires (to me at least) into the hubs.

Here is where I need the help, on the driver side wheel hub there are two wires, white and white/blue coming together and going into a green wire into the hub and the trailer brake. There are also two additional wires colored white and another white/black going into the other brake wire to the hub. Over on the passenger side wheel hub I have a white/black wire going into a green wire to the trailer brake and then a white wire going into the other green wire going into the wheel hub to the brake.

I’m perplexed with these two wires going into one and not just a single blue (positive) wire and a white (ground) wire as shown in most trailer schematics. Would I be correct in assuming that the white/black wires on each side and white wires that are also located on both sides to each electric brake are common and connected together, diver side white/black to passenger side white/black. Are all the white wires common and tied together as the ground? This doesn’t make sense to me because you wouldn’t tie what might be a positive wire such as the white/blue or white/black to a negative white wire? So are the white/blue and white wire that come together on the driver side positive and the white/black and white that also come together on the driver side the negative side going to the trailer brake? Is this same white/black on the driver side carried over to the passenger’s side white/black as its negative and the white wire on the passenger side going into the trailer brake the positive that on most schematics would be shown as a blue wire?

Maybe someone here has already solved this mystery of Rpod wiring or am I going to have to hook up the trailer connector to my TV and crawl around with a probe and my volt/ohm meter?

Help!!!

 

 

DavMar, I like the little fused jumper I made with two 1/4" spade connectors. I can pick up 12V at the 11 position on trailer plug and use it to test different circuits, don't plug it into the ground at 5. I can light my lights and even send signal to brake controller and light my reverse lights I added. I added the faq wiring doc to my binder and it has my notes on it from different things I've looked at.

Try this, there is some great info on here. Pods are wired to the 7 way RV standard, mine matches pin postion and wire color. There is also a representation of brake wiring and a trailer wiring image, but it doesn't match your Pod. Great reference I use.

https://www.etrailer.com/faq-wiring.aspx