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Gene Davis

12-15-2001 07:06:34




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I know there are articles on this in the archives on this subject, many of them are good, but not always up on the latest technical details, this type of stuff changes rapidly in this day and time. What I want to know, with out starting a brand or color war is what to look for when I go to buy an electric brake controller for a 7000# bumper/reciever pull trailer with one axle brakes. I wanted to go with hydrualics originally, but the used/good price/available one has electric brakes on one axle, and I am willing to go with it for the price. Will be hauling a small backhoe (3900#), or small tractor(650,J.D. 1700#) JD, and harrow,etc will usually be 5000# or less using a C1500 chevy P/U Would like to know what you people think are the good,bad and uglies of buying and setting up a controller for this, and will probably be used with 2 vehicles with a quick coupler set of plug-ins for the wires. Also how do you add brakes to the other axle and have them work correctly? Do they have to have resistors in line to synchronize them or what is the story on that part? Would appreciate your sharing of knowledge and/or brands,type, or what works good for your rigs. Thanks Gene Davis

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Steve

12-17-2001 07:15:44




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 Re: Brake controllers in reply to Gene Davis , 12-15-2001 07:06:34  
Gene,
I have several new brake controllers that I had purchased at a going out of buisness sale for a local trailer company. I believe they are hayes, but will have to look. I spoke with the mechanic at the sale and he recomended those. The controllers I have are brand new, never installed and still in the packages. Let me know if you may be interested. Steve



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Jerry

12-16-2001 08:02:07




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 Re: Brake controllers in reply to Gene Davis , 12-15-2001 07:06:34  
Gene, does the non brake axle have a flange with four holes in it that you could bolt a backing plate to? (compare with you brake axle) If not it may be easier and cheaper to buy another axle with brakes and drums already set up if you were going to buy all the brake componants anyway. They may all be wired together in parallel. As controllers go I would vote for tekonsha prodigy. I had the low end tenkonsha which worked fine in my last truck. I just bought a new truck and put the tekonsha prodigy (135.00 at twice the price of the other). I hardly notice the trailer pushing or pulling me anymore. It is very smooth. The prodigy is made to be removed when not in use if you wish, The holder gets attached to the dash and the controller snapes in and out. Maybe you could buy an extra holder and harness, so you could interchange between vehicles easily.

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Russ

12-15-2001 11:02:53




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 Re: Brake controllers in reply to Gene Davis , 12-15-2001 07:06:34  
Hi Gene, this won`t be much help because I don`t have the link for reference, but here goes anyway. Tekonsha and here`s the part I`m not absolute on, Hayes are the only true proportional brake controllers. All others such as Reese are just timers that pulse the brakes on and off, to prevent lock up, as long as a signal is provided, ie: the brake pedal is pushed. There is supposed to be a big difference in performance but I don`t know first hand. I`ve never had anything but Tekonsha since I switched from a Hayes hydraulic unit. I`ve had three different Tekonshas, and all performed well. Try www.southwestwheel.com , I`ve had good luck with them. As far as brakes on both axles, from what I`ve seen you don`t need resistors or anything else for time delay. I don`t doubt that someone makes a proportional controller to control how the axles relate to one another, but in the six different trailers with dual axle brakes that I`ve pulled it hasn`t been necessary. With the electric signal moving at the speed of light, I think there may be other more important issues to braking effiency such as making sure that your brakes are manually adjusted properly. Here again, I`m no expert and I`m just going on what I`ve seen, but all electric brakes I`ve used needed adjustment. None were self adjusters. I think proper adjustment is more important than having brakes on all wheels, at least in my experience. Velcro will be the way to mount your controller in multiple vehicle sbut take pains to ensure the controller is mounted per the manufacturers instructions and all should work well. Russ

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charlie

12-16-2001 08:04:37




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 Re: Re: Brake controllers in reply to Russ, 12-15-2001 11:02:53  
go to www.tekonsha.com.without going into a long story just let me say you will like these controllers.check out the 9030 and 9035.both nice units.then go to ebay.i've bought my last 4 from there and saved a bunch of money.i pull anything from a 8000 gvw tag trailer to a 30,000 gvw goose neck and have never had a problem.good luck



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