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Originally Posted by brulaz
Even when dialed high, I've never had the trailer brakes lock up, so maybe I'm being too cautious.
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You really never want the trailer brakes to lock up. Your TV has much better quality anti-lock brakes than the trailer. In a panic stop with locked trailer brakes, the trailer will have less friction than the TV, and it will tend to make choices completely on it's own about whether to try to pass you on the left or on the right. And, if you set the controller so that the trailer just almost-but-won't-quite lock up on dry pavement, you still have to think about how this will work someday on wet pavement. I'm a fan of practicing these things in a big parking lot by yourself somewhere until you have some idea about how your rig will behave.
Because of uncertainties like these, I would never tow a heavy trailer in snow except in some dire circumstance.