Wireless proportional brake controllers
I'm seeing these wireless brake controllers on the market, are they any good, and are they reliable? Any input would be helpful. Thanks Steve
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spoon059 wrote:
While I was initially opposed to using wireless, it is the only system that we could install that would allow him to have brakes. I'm sure if we spent thousands of dollars at a dealer they could have eventually tracked down a trigger wire for us and we could have installed a traditional controller.
I wouldn't count on it. My own local dealer who does hundreds of trailer wiring installations each year, including brake controllers, now turns down any Mercedes because of the difficulty of getting any brake controller, wired or wireless, to work properly. They did two years ago manage to finally get a Prodigy RF to work with a customer's Mercedes but it took an entire day, communicating countless times with Mercedes about the issues, only finally achieved success by using the shop truck to sync the Prodigy RF modules. Customers of course don't understand why this is so difficult and are unwilling to pay beyond a normal shop charge for brake controller installation so the only solution from the dealer's point of view is to refuse work on any Mercedes.
