Video of Tekonsha POD Trailer Brake Controller w/ Custom Harness - Up to 2 Axles - Time Delayed
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Video Transcript for In-Depth Review of the Tekonsha POD Trailer Brake Controller
Hey everybody, Ryan here at etrailer. Today, we're gonna be taking a look at the Tekonsha PowerTrac Brake Controller. So, this will be a real good choice for those of you that are maybe just replacing an older brake controller and just wanna stick to something simple. And that's for a brake controller like this one's gonna come into play. What this is gonna do, is send power after your trailer's brakes and help keep everything safe. One of the things I like about this one is kind of how it's styled actually.
It's just a little bit different. It kind of has some different angles going on here and the face of it is flat. It's just really user-friendly. It's easy to see what's going on and easy to reach everything. You know, it's something small but goes it a long way in terms of having to live with it and use it, you know.
I'd say it's probably, overall size, it's probably medium. You know, there's some smaller, more compact ones like the Draw-Tite I-Command, for example. And then there's some little bit larger ones like the Tekonsha P3. So, it kind of falls somewhere in the middle. The thing is with this one, it is a time-delayed brake controller.
And so what that means, is it's gonna have a preset amount of power that is sent back to your brakes whenever you hit your brake pedal in your vehicle here. You know, that has some benefits and some downsides to the more modern proportional type brake controller. One of the benefits is, of the time-delayed is, you know what to expect. You know, you have the complete adjustability of how much power you wanna send back there. But you know, one of the advantages the proportional one has it's a little bit smoother, you know smoother of an experience, generally speaking.
You can usually fine-tune the time delays and be really happy with it. But just to kind of throw a brake controller in and go a proportional one's usually a little bit better. What they do is match the breaking pressure of your 4Runner. So let's say, if like you're barely hitting the brakes in here, about halfway, trailer brakes are gonna do the same thing. On the other hand, let's say emergency stop, right So you really gotta stand on that brake pedal, trailer brakes gotta do the same thing. So it's hard to argue with that, you know what I mean It's gotta match that pressure and be really predictable. So, in terms of actually living with this, I mean, super simple, you're gonna have one adjustment so you're gonna have a dial here, and you can either dial-up or dial-down the breaking intensity. So obviously when you go up and hit your brake or we'll use the manual override, just kind of amplifies a little more. You can see the color is going to indicate to you how much braking power is being applied. So green and, you know, yellowish-orange, that's light power the more power that's applied, it's gonna turn into that deep red. And that deep red is letting us know, that we have maximum power going back there. So, one of the things that you can do, whenever you get your trailer, is hook up to it, you can hit your brake pedal and dial that knob up till about orange, you know, about somewhere in the middle kind of go from there. If you feel like the breaking power's not strong enough, if the trailer's kind of wanting to push you around or you feel your car kind of struggling, you know you can always dial that up some and amplify it. If it's too much, if the brakings' too aggressive, just dial it down some. So, like I talked about earlier you can adjust this pretty good. So, you know, you find something you're happy with and you go, "All right, I'm just gonna bump it up a little bit more, see how it feels." And you can really dial that in, to your liking. And I feel like, that's why this is a pretty popular brake controller. You know, it's just so simple. I mean, anyone can figure this thing out. One of the things though, you know, nowadays there's so many of 'em available and some of them are really neat. You get a ton of options and crazy adjustability, like the P3 by Tekonsha, for example, you can do all sorts of wild things with it. You know those ones with all the bells and whistles are really kind of targeted towards people that use 'em for a living, you know, and really rely on all those different options. Something like this vehicle, you know, if you pull the same trailer, maybe two, this is gonna get you going down the road just fine. And, you know, I do just want to give you an option, maybe you don't like the look of the traditional style brake controller, where it's mounted on the dash, you know, and I don't blame you. There is options out there. One of 'em is the REDARC, and essentially the main body of the brake controller is hidden up underneath the dash where you can't see it. And the control is simply just a small knob. And it's actually really cool, I've done several of them. That's always an option for you as well. But, other than that at the end of the day if you're looking for something simple that's gotta work and you can rely on, can't really go wrong with this brake controller. And that'll finish up our look at, the Tekonsha PowerTrac Brake Controller..
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