Love the factory brake controller

[Brummie99]

I bought a new 30 foot travel trailer last weekend and this weekend installed an Equal-I-zer weight distributing hitch. Drove it home last weekend without WDH because the dealer didn't sell the Equal-I-zer but that's another story.

 

After install, I took it for a test drive and had a light go red at just the wrong time. Hit the brakes and the whole rig stopped beautifully as if it were a single unit. I know that's how it's supposed to work but I've only experienced after-market controllers before and they never worked as well as this.

 

With the trailer brake on the DIC, you can see it is truly proportional to the pressure applied to the brake and not to the 'deceleration' of the vehicle.

 

I understand why people want to add the factory controller over an after-market unit.

 

[4weight]

I had the first experience with it last week as well using a 16ft trailer to load a deer blind.  Worked great once I learned how to use it. 

[Brummie99]

43 minutes ago, 4weight said:

I had the first experience with it last week as well using a 16ft trailer to load a deer blind.  Worked great once I learned how to use it. 

Yeah you have to get it dialed in correctly. Mine is set with the gain at 6 and seems to work perfectly.