Brake controller install
Getting ready to install my first brake controller (Never needed trailer brakes till now) and the controller comes with a short ground wire that has a ring terminal already installed. But ... the inst...
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kaydeejay wrote:Terryallan wrote:I agree, timed controllers, while slightly better than nothing, DO NOT apply enough brake when you REALLY need it!
I looked it up. According to the website the Reese Brakeman Digital 83500 is a TIMED controller.
The best advise I can give you. Is to NOT install it at all. Take it and trade it for a inertia activated proportional brake controller. Prodigy, Or P3 are very good controllers. they fully activate the trailer brakes as soon as you hit the brake pedal, and continue with the same stopping force as the TV is experiencing.
A TIMED controller. Starts out light, and applies more brakes the longer you hold the pedal. In an emergency stopping event. The timed controller will not fully activate the brakes until the event is over.
Others my differ. But in MOP. Timed controllers are useless.
Get a Prodigy!
As for that ground terminal - my Prodigy is grounded through the harness that Tekonsha sold me. Plugs into the fuse-box under the dash.
Timed base controllers..........Fred Flintstones concept. Yaba-daba-do!
