Brakes on this pup?

Resoman wrote:
Yesterday, I had a Curt Mfg. Discovery Digital brake controller installed. According to the Curt website, this is the "timed" type of controller, for better or worse.
I'll pick up my trailer on Tuesday, thanks again for all your comments.
Gary

Sorry to hear that. You'll want to replace the time based controller with an inertia controller as soon as possible. They are not much more initial cost than the time-based units.

The time based controller is just that, the longer your foot is on the brake, the more power it sends to the trailer brakes. It doesn't matter if you are lightly applying pressure or slamming the brakes. the time controller does the same thing.

The inertia based controller senses how hard you are using the tow vehicle brakes (i.e. how fast you are slowing down) and applies a proportional amount of power to the trailer brakes. This is very important when you have to "slam" on the brakes. In a panic stop, the time based controller won't do any good because it hasn't had time to ramp up the output power. The inertia controller will provide higher output power right away.

Today, somewhere in central Utah there's a woman and her kid that are still alive and well because I have an inertia based controller. They pulled out in front of me crossing the highway. If the trailer brakes hadn't functioned at full output right away, I would have t-boned the car.