Trailer Brake Gain
Hello All!! I am a fairly new member here. My family and I just recently returned from our inaugural 3,000 mile trip to Yellowstone with our new rig. We returned home by way of Mt Rushmore. From Cody ...
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Lynnmor wrote:
And half the time you will have superheated brakes. Give me a break!
I guess if you are using the brakes, you should know if they are going away and need to stop. You just can't bypass the physics.
Simple test. Ride your brakes down a hill to keep 30 mph. Try to stop at the bottom. Bet you have a hard time. Now downshift to keep 40 and pulse them to bring your speed back to 30. Try to stop at the bottom of the hill. Which will be easier to do? The physics says it's all the same but it's not.
Yes the physics says that to slow xxx lbs from yyy to zzz will take a certain amount of energy and produce a certain amount of heat. But it ignores the time component. Much easier for the system to handle one shot of all that heat vs the long and slow buildup.
I've driven in the mountains and it's much easier to stop if you pulse and release with a downshift vs riding them the whole time and trying to stop.
