Break controller adjustment

Don't know what you were smelling, but a brake controller has no effect on your trucks brakes. The controller is for the trailer. Without knowing what controller you have, not possible to advise on adjustments.

Jim

Jim-Linda wrote:
Don't know what you were smelling, but a brake controller has no effect on your trucks brakes. The controller is for the trailer. Without knowing what controller you have, not possible to advise on adjustments.

Jim

He means his trailer brakes were hardly working and his truck was doing all the braking and therefore smelled his red hot rotors and pads cooking.

Google your brake controller model and you should be able to look up the owners manual on how to do it.

When I had a break controller we referred to him as a "Boss". :)-

I am sure I could use my own advice but here are my thoughts.

When posting a question you would like answered read what you wrote. If you were someone else would you have enough info to answer?

Du wake me up.. The controller is a Prodigy. I downloaded the instructions and printed them out. Sometimes I don't think first, another senior moment....

I have never had a break controller in my truck, but I have had a few brake controllers.

I adjusted my trailer brakes setting on a stretch of road near my house that didn't have much traffic on it.

I would speed up to around 25-30MPH and apply brake pedal and adjust my Brake Controller DC VOLTAGE setting to the point of just under sliding any of the tires on the trailer. It takes two or three settings to get the point you like...

My BRAKE CONTROLLER setting ended up around a six (6) for my 4200lb trailer... On dirt roads like heading up to the more remote campgrounds I sometimes will slide my trailer tires. I probably should drop my setting down to around 5 or 5.5 setting. My smaller trailer is easy to tell if you are sliding the trailer tires on the payment. This may be more difficult to tell on the larger trailers brakes...

Everytime I hook up for travel I use my manual slide switch to apply trailer brakes at the first stop we come to before getting out on the main roads without using the truck brake pedal testing if they are working properly... This also removes any moisture that might have accumulated on the electric brake pads from setting for a while...

My Ford Truck built-in Brake Controller is tied into the truck computer system and among other things disengages the Brake Controller when the speedometer is under 10MPH. I really don't like this idea but have not found away to get around it. When I first realized this was happening I thought I had an defective BRAKE CONTROLLER but the Ford maintenance folks told it was suppose to do that on the 2009 and up Ford model truck's built-in brake controllers. This makes me have to hold the manual slide switch 'ON' when sitting at a stop sign that may be on unlevel ground. I fear the heavy trailer may want to pull my truck backwards etc...

Easy SETUP procedure for me...

Roy Ken

Mine is a prodigy p2. I adjust the gain up to where the trailer brakes are just shy of locking up with the manual control , then set the boost on 1,2,or 3 , depending on your weight and preference of braking aggressiveness .

IMHO P2=POS

Sucks having to constantly change from light to heavy setting.

A shame MaxBrake is no longer being made.

X2 on the Max brake. I just put in my Max brake last year and I must say it was the best 350.00 up grade for my braking. It works like it was a built in system. I don't sweat the stopping anymore. I can't believe the difference. I bet if everyone knew the difference it made they would not be out of buisness. I was going to buy one for my brother for a Christmas present when I found out they were gone. :(