Brake light wire?

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Taken a while - gone fishin lol ( I really went fishin )
Ok hooking up white violet for brake signal

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Brake box bracket under the hood - it will activate the trucks brake system when the motor home brakes are applied — not much room under the hood for extras - bottom pic shows finished. Bracket using battery strap mounting bolt - covered with industrial Velcro and flex rubber tape under so I don’t rub wiring


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Unit installed on bracket — just connections left and vacuum line

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Now I have to figure out how to splice the 3/8 vacuum line into the 17.6mm factory brake booster line

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Now I have to figure out how to splice the 3/8 vacuum line into the 17.6mm factory brake booster line

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Lookup a boost barb tap, something like this is what I have used on charge pipes in the past. Could probably find a better spot for that though

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Otherwise you get a vacuum block and run the vacuum line that usually goes across the firewall to that, and from that you feed your other accessories.
 
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I ended up in a conversation with tech support and the brake unit has a air pressure switch that sends 12v and use that for my monitor led power source. He also mentioned the possibility that the system might not even throw juice on that wire when shut down in tow mode . I will have to check — unit is working -
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