Factory Installed Brake Controllers
Anyone experienced factory installed brake controllers? I heard they are weak and don't provide enough juice to strongly activate the trailer brakes but others say they do work OK. Trailer Life s...
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Crabbypatty wrote:
We just upgraded to an f250 with the controller. Before that we had the Prodigy P3 that I hooked up. No matter the adjustment or wiring I always felt like I was being pushed by the TT. Now with the built int controller, like magic stops on a dime. I was cut off and had to lock it up and it did. Must be something with the onboard computer syncing it all together. HUGE difference. In the ford you can input fr the different types of trailers that you tow. Love it!
It's not magic, you now have a brake that is actually connected to your foot by reading the hydraulic pressure. Folks are just now coming around to accepting the idea that this has always been the correct way to control trailer brakes. There are still many holdouts, but when they finally buy a new truck they will (might?) understand.
Years ago, add on brake controller were tapped into the hydraulics of tow vehicles, then for a number of reasons, production of those controllers stopped in favor of the simple designs currently available. Better controllers like Brakesmart and MaxBrake were made and they worked much the same as the current factory controllers, but they went out of business due to buyers accepting inferior products.
