First off let me thank everyone that replied to me a while ago about which brake controller was your favorite...

I love this prodigy!!

My question is related to this controller...our construction company has a new tilt bed trailer capable of hauling about 11000 pounds. We are having problems with the brakes getting too hot and smoking and squealing horribly after use down the road. Twice it has been to the shop for them to adjust the brakes but two days ago I decided to pull our 5000 lb bobcat on this trailer with my truck and prodigy.

My reasoning was thinking about proportionate brakeing and how I might not have the same problem with smoking the brakes.

Sure enough I got them to smoke after driving around town for a while. I have the maximum load set to 6 volts on the controller and when I decel it only reaches about 3 to 3.5 volts on the display. The tech at the trailer shop said I was over powering the brakes when he came along with me. (so I could prove to him it was still happening).

He turned my controller down to 3.5 max volts and said "try this" but then I was really really having to stand on my pedal to stop the load. He said that was correct but I beg to differ.


So question to the qroup...if you were hauling that much weight (assuming the trailer and bobcat weighed equal to or more than my truck) how much power in theory would you send to the brakes during a normal, no panic, stop to a stoplight? Because I can still get those brakes to smoke...

Thanks all!
--Justin

 

Try positng this on the Towing page just below in the Special Intrests section. I bet they could come up with a quick answer.