Trailer Brakes - How hot is TOO hot?
Hi everyone, I have a new rig (see sig). It weighs 12,130 lbs unloaded and we may have 400lbs loaded in it so we're not close to overloaded. I've been worried because I have the gain set to 10 (...
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Quick test to isolate the problem if there is one.
With cold brakes, take a run with no trailer brakes plugged in, make a few hard stops, whatever, see if the trailer brakes are warm or hot. If they're still cold, they're not dragging.
Now plug in brakes, set low gain, repeat. If they get hot, then likely the controller is sending more juice than it should.
There are many reports of the Ram ibc not having the power for bigger systems, which you also appear to experience if the trailer is pushing the truck.
So you have conflicting issues, but the above may be a start to isolating the problem.
With cold brakes, take a run with no trailer brakes plugged in, make a few hard stops, whatever, see if the trailer brakes are warm or hot. If they're still cold, they're not dragging.
Now plug in brakes, set low gain, repeat. If they get hot, then likely the controller is sending more juice than it should.
There are many reports of the Ram ibc not having the power for bigger systems, which you also appear to experience if the trailer is pushing the truck.
So you have conflicting issues, but the above may be a start to isolating the problem.
