Sway Control - Who Saved the Day?
Hello, folks. Been an RV'er for a little over two years, and had an experience about seven months ago that prompted me to join this forum just to get your thoughts on it. I grew up towing EVERYTHING...
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BurbMan wrote:Lynnmor wrote:
The day of accelerometer controlled brake controls needs to come to an end. Brakes should be controlled by the driver, not brake light switches, and the ability of the tow vehicle to decelerate... or not. Talking about milliseconds of "lead" time, is meaningless. Truck manufacturers have installed brake controllers that are far superior than the aftermarket guesswork controllers.
OK so you know you are describing how accelerometer-controlled brake controls work, right? How do you think OEM controllers work? Same as the prodigy, but that have the advantage of being engineered into factory ABS and other functions.
You may be confusing the older "timed" controls that were common before the accelerometer chip became mainstream.
Obviously you don't tow a big trailer or you wouldn't think that the lead time provided by the P2 is "meaningless".
I would agree that OEM integrated controllers are better, but they have only been available for a few years. The technology in the Prodigy products is far from "guesswork". Your comment is analogous to telling someone who wants to learn how to parallel park to just go buy a car that does it for you....a) you have taught that person nothing, and b) not everybody has unlimited resources to go do that.
The OEM controllers operate by a pressure sensor that responds to the hydraulic pressure in the brake system. The harder you press on the brake pedal, the more current is sent to the trailer brakes. You might want to Google that and learn.
Aftermarket controllers were available more that twenty years ago that worked the same way, but folks just wanted cheap and cheap they got.
