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This proportional brake controller is designed to keep towing simple. Includes an LED braking indicator, a slide-bar manual override, and a knob to adjust braking power. Mounts easily within a 90-degree vertical range.
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Once the brake controller is installed, you can use the knob on the right side of the unit to adjust the gain (also known as output). Gain lets you set the maximum amount of power that will be applied to your trailer's brakes. You want to set it as high as you can without locking up the brakes. Typically, this setting is only readjusted when you experience changing road conditions or if you switch over from a heavy, loaded trailer to a much lighter, empty trailer, or vice versa.
You can fine-tune the gain by adjusting the sensitivity of the internal sensor using the knob on the left side. This controls the aggressiveness of your trailer's braking, meaning how quickly the brakes reach the maximum braking level. You can adjust this when you're towing heavy loads and you need more umph to bring your trailer to a stop. Your tow vehicle doesn't need that much power to brake in time, but your heavy trailer does. A high sensitivity level will get the braking power to your trailer brakes faster and with more intensity so that it doesn't push your tow vehicle forward.
LED Indicator
Keeping with its simple design, the Voyager will not overwhelm you with information. An LED indicator on the top of the unit lights up green to show that your trailer is securely connected to your tow vehicle. The LED indicator will change to red when the brakes on your trailer are activated.
During installation and setup, this light is also used to ensure that the Voyager will be able to function correctly. Proper leveling of the internal sensor is crucial to the operation of this brake controller. When the sensor is level, the LED will change to a shade of orange.
The Voyager is designed to be mounted in your cab at a vertical angle that is between -20 degrees and 70 degrees. The brake controller needs to be horizontally level and parallel to the direction of travel in order to function properly.
To connect the Voyager, just plug the included harness into your vehicle. The other end plugs into the controller - no hardwiring required.
Once the controller is mounted and connected, you must level the internal sensor. First, set the overall power to the maximum using the knob on the side of the controller. Then, while pressing the tow vehicle's brake pedal, adjust the level knob on the other side of the brake controller (this is the same knob that is used to fine-tune the power output) until the LED monitor is a shade of orange.
Note: If you don't already have a 7-way plug at the back of your vehicle, take a look at our exclusive 7- and 4-way brake controller installation kit (ETBC7 - sold separately).
The Tekonsha Voyager brake controller comes equipped with proportional braking to give you the best towing experience. Proportional braking means that your trailer brakes mimic your tow vehicle's brakes. If you slam on the brakes in your vehicle, your trailer brakes will activate with the same intensity; if you brake lightly, your trailer brakes lightly too. The trailer's braking is in proportion to your vehicle's braking. This saves wear and tear on the tires and the brakes on both your vehicle and trailer.
The Voyager uses a pendulum system to sense how your vehicle is braking so it can send the right amount of braking power to your trailer. It measures the inertia of your tow vehicle and activates the trailer's brakes to slow at the same rate. The result is uniform braking across your towing setup. No push-pull action - just smooth, proportional braking every time.
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Hello everybody, Clayton here at etrailer.com. Here at etrailer.com, we install, test, and review a lot of different products to help you as the customer make a more educated decision before your purchase. Today we're gonna be working on a 2021 Ram ProMaster 3500. We're gonna be taking a look at, and I'll be showing you how to install the Tekonsha Voyager brake controller. To assist us with our brake controller install, we are gonna be installing the Tekonsha OEM replacement seven-way brake controller harness. You can find that here at etrailer.com.
The Voyager is gonna be the economical version of the Tekonsha brake controllers. This is gonna allow us to get the trailer brake signal back to our trailer and travel safely down the roadway. So whether you're towing a really heavy trailer like a dump trailer or anything like that this is really gonna allow you to use those brakes on the trailer and save the brakes on your vehicle. With that being said, this is gonna be a proportional brake controller. What that means is however hard we push the brakes, that's how hard it's gonna apply the brakes to our trailer.
Now one cool thing is, that it does work for 1 to 4 axles. Our brake controller is gonna work with electric brakes only. So if you do have hydraulic brakes, I suggest checking out the Tekonsha P2 or P3. But if you do have those electric brakes this is gonna work just fine for you. From here on the top, we have the manual override for the trailer brakes, so if you do need to come to a quick stop, or you want the trailer to stop quickly, you just slide that over and apply the brakes.
Or if you're going down a hill, maybe just wanna add a little bit more than you already had it set on you just pull that over and the trailer will react with your liking. Anyway, nice thing about our Voyager is that it is gonna automatically adjust to the trailer brakes on our trailer with our towed vehicle. Now you do want to keep in mind, this is automatic so we're not gonna have any time delay like some of the other brake controllers on the market. So it's gonna be really immediate definitely something that you can easily live with. We have our sensitivity adjustment on the side.
So if you do need a little bit more or less braking power you just twist this dial and that will allow you to fine tune your trailer brakes. And then when you do install a brake controller it needs to be leveled left to right. And then it can be mounted between 20 and 70 degrees off vertical. Our kit is gonna include everything we need to get it installed. Like I said, installing it, most of the time is gonna be plug and play. And if it's not, it is gonna be pretty simple and straightforward to get that done. That being said, I'll go ahead and walk you through how to get it installed now. To determine a good spot to mount our brake controller, we're gonna want to grab our bracket from our kit kinda hold it up underneath our dash and try to find a good spot. Now, due to the kind of shape of our cabin here it is gonna be a little tight. But this is gonna be the best location for our brake controller. We can mark those holes there, try to figure out a good way to get our wire routed up to it. So here it's gonna be nice and level. You just need to have a paint marker, kinda mark where we're gonna add our hardware. And a good way you can tell if it's level, is if you have an iPhone or an Android, usually it'll have a leveling app. You can just kind of hold your phone up right there. And, that's as close to level as we're gonna get, It's about. There we go. It's locked in at zero. So, you know you're nice and level, you can just erase those little marks and move them if you need to. I just want to grab our provided self-tapper and our drill. Just gonna put that tapper on our hole it started nice and slow. We'll leave that loose so we have some adjustment. Now we can add our other self-tapper to the other side. I just came back and checked our level again. We are nice level so I tightened those down the rest of the way. We're gonna have a couple of holes on each side of our brake controller. We're gonna use some provided screws as you see down there on the floorboard to get that mounted in our bracket. You just want to slide that into our bracket. Kind of determine the best location to add those. Right there looks pretty good and we can add our screws on each side. Now we just want to come back with a quarter-inch socket and finish tightening these down. All of our bolts snug down. We're now ready to plug in our harness. Now I line up our harness on our brake controller and plug it in. Before I do anything else we're gonna test it out. With everything hooked into our tester box, we can now test out our brake controller power. As you can see, that amperage changes whenever I pull that lever. So we know it's working properly. Everything tested out, ready to hook up to our trailer and hit the road. That's gonna do it for our look at, and installation of Tekonsha's Voyager brake controller on our 2021 Ram ProMaster 3,500..
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