Timed vs inertia brake controllers
Our TV has a Reese sumthin sumthin timed brake controller, for use on up to 4 axle trailers. Are we destined to crash and burn due to not having the other style?
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OK - thanks for the information posted so far.
Here is what I've figgered out:
- I don't want to keep using a timed controller.
- inertia controllers come in fancier "proportional" versions and are electronic.
- "master cylinder sensing" hydraulic pressure sensing is what the nice Ford OEM built in controllers are, and are available aftermarket from people like "Max Brake". They are similar in principle to the brake controller I helped my dad install on our 1964 Pontiac Laurentian station wagon when I was a little gaffer, learning to grab me the 7/16. That car towed a single axle aluminum skin / nice marine plywood interior single axle travel trailer (don't remember the brand name) all over the Canadian Rockies and the Okanagon with a 283 V8 and 2 speed automatic, in summer. Yes he used WD hitch but not sway control that was for sissies. Firestone Wide Oval bias tires. Premium gas only - sorry I digress - back to brakes: Except now the interface from hydraulic to electric signal is under the hood - no hydraulic brake line through the firewall like the Pontiac.
- so I need to decide do I want master cylinder sensing?
- or rely on inertia & electronics only... ?
More input from experienced users welcome...
Here is what I've figgered out:
- I don't want to keep using a timed controller.
- inertia controllers come in fancier "proportional" versions and are electronic.
- "master cylinder sensing" hydraulic pressure sensing is what the nice Ford OEM built in controllers are, and are available aftermarket from people like "Max Brake". They are similar in principle to the brake controller I helped my dad install on our 1964 Pontiac Laurentian station wagon when I was a little gaffer, learning to grab me the 7/16. That car towed a single axle aluminum skin / nice marine plywood interior single axle travel trailer (don't remember the brand name) all over the Canadian Rockies and the Okanagon with a 283 V8 and 2 speed automatic, in summer. Yes he used WD hitch but not sway control that was for sissies. Firestone Wide Oval bias tires. Premium gas only - sorry I digress - back to brakes: Except now the interface from hydraulic to electric signal is under the hood - no hydraulic brake line through the firewall like the Pontiac.
- so I need to decide do I want master cylinder sensing?
- or rely on inertia & electronics only... ?
More input from experienced users welcome...
