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Old 10-20-2010, 07:34 PM   #3
Keith Wire
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Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Ada, OH
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MisterP,

Well, our experience has been different. I have tried to set the power level twice using their method and neither time could I get the brakes to "lock up". This was on a nice straight asphalt highway just outside of town. I started at the 6.0 and increased it all the way to the maximum.

Sure I can feel the brakes work when I pull the lever. Sure it stops both the TM and the TV without touching the brakes in the TV. I even went underneath and put an AMP meter on the brake lines and had my wife pull the lever. The current for both brakes were the same.

My understanding is that you want the TM brakes to pull just a bit more than the TV brakes. And that the power setting should really be changed to a lower setting if you are driving on wet highways.

My problem is I can't find a good way to determine the "best" settings for those conditions.

I may be making too much of this, but I was once nearly in a serious accident which was caused by a incorrectly loaded utility trailer.

I think getting this setting right is very important for all of us.

Anybody else have anything to add?

Keith
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