interesting. Agreed on the literature being very complete but does not say the calibration will take long. Only says it takes as long as needed to determine direction of travel. It says it can be installed in any direction as long as it’s a solid mount but after reading this I wonder if there is a preferred orientation so it can learn faster. 300-400 miles seems crazy
I shpuld have mine wired up in a couple days, will see if it takes the same time.
Not sure if you're doing it in a Jeep, but I found that it fit very well on the metal bracket just behind the removable "knee panel" on the driver's side. I then installed the switch using the redraw switch panel into the little "vent hole" that is unused (at least in the rubicon). It was a sloppy fit, so I used a bit of epoxy to hold it in place. The advantage of this location was that it was VERY easy to install, very easy to fish the RJ45 cable to, and also it is out of my line of vision while driving at night so that the flashing light isn't distracting. The downside is that it does require you to take your eyes off the road and peer down past the steering wheel to be able to see it, but I just use it by feel. There are 40 clicks in a complete revolution.
not to hijack but here is how I installed mine. Sounds like the same as you for the controller but my older JK didn’t come with switched on the left side of the column so I added this 5 switch bezel from Carling. The RedRc switch is mounted in a carling blank that I drilled out for the switch. switch housing etc came from otrattw.net
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I don’t know the RedARC, but my Tekonsha is supposed to be powered 100% of the time. Is it possible that you are constantly calibrating because you installed it with switched power, so it is experiencing a complete restart every time you use it?