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The Tekonsha P3 is a brake controller beloved for its reliability and useability. You're able to save your settings and multiple profiles. It's easy to install, and with the custom harness, it's plug-and-play.
Features:
Specs:
Braking output is the maximum amount of power that will be applied to your trailer's brakes. How much braking output you need is determined by the weight of your trailer; a heavier trailer will need more power to bring it to a stop. You want to go as high as you can without the trailer brakes locking up.
Use the arrow buttons on the front of the module to set the output.
The boost setting controls the aggressiveness of your trailer's braking, meaning how quickly the brakes reach the maximum braking level. If your vehicle takes too long to come to a stop, increase the setting. If it stops too abruptly, decrease the setting.
Depending on the level of boost, your trailer brakes can start at either 13 percent or 25 percent of the set braking output. So instead of starting at 0, the brakes will start at 25 percent and get to 100 percent sooner. This keeps the trailer from pushing your tow vehicle forward.
Boost Levels:
| Approximate Gross Trailer Weight | Boost Level | Increase in Initial Power Output |
|---|---|---|
| Less than tow vehicle GVW | B1 | 13% |
| Equal to tow vehicle GVW | B1 or B2 | 13% or 25% |
| Up to 25% more than tow vehicle GVW | B2 or B3* | 25% |
| Up to 40% more than tow vehicle GVW | B3* | 25% |
*Both B2 and B3 offer a 25-percent boost in initial power. But the braking curve for B3 is more aggressive than that of B2. This means that, even though you will start out with the same intensity when using these boost levels, you will get an overall more aggressive braking experience with the higher level. So if you use B3, you will reach maximum braking sooner than if you use B2.
To engage the manual override, twist the rotary-style lever from right to left. This will activate the trailer's brakes and brake lights independently of your vehicle, great for stopping sway or controlling your trailer's momentum in an emergency.
The P3 is able to store your settings in multiple profiles so that you can have them ready to go for different trailers and drivers. Even the display is super customizable: you can change the screen color, brightness, and language to make it easy to use.
The P3 makes it easy to troubleshoot problems as they come up, with comprehensible and detailed diagnostics displayed on the screen.
Diagnostic troubleshooting messages include:
Diagnostic warning signs include:
The Prodigy P3 offers advanced safety features to prevent damage to various components of your towing setup.
-Integrated reverse battery protection shields the brake controller and your trailer's breakaway system from shorts.
-When the P3 is not in use, it draws only 3.6 milliamps, minimizing drain on your vehicle's battery.
-Any time your vehicle and trailer are at a standstill with the brakes applied for more than 5 seconds, the hold feature will kick on and reduce power to just 25 percent. This will keep your trailer in place without your brakes overheating.
Installing the P3 is incredibly simple. You'll mount the bracket to your dashboard then mount the unit to the bracket. Plug the custom harness into your vehicle and into the unit. Done!
Keep in mind that the P3 must be horizontally level and parallel with the direction of travel to work correctly.
With a replacement wiring harness (sold separately) and replacement bracket (TK5906 - sold separately), you can even transfer the Prodigy P3 to another vehicle.
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).
Proportional braking means that your trailer brakes mimic your tow vehicle's brakes. If you slam on the brakes, 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 and trailer.
The Prodigy P3 uses an internal inertia sensor to detect 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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Videos are provided as a guide only. Refer to manufacturer installation instructions and specs for complete information.
Today on our 2015 Buick Enclave, we're going to take a look at and show you how to install the Tekonsha Prodigy Pe Proportional Trailer Brake Controller, part number is 90195. To aid in the installation, we're also going to be using part number 3026-P. Now the P3 from Tekonsha is one of the best brake controllers out there on the market right now. It does an excellent job of providing all the braking power you're going to need without overdoing it. The proportional system helps to save wear and tear on your trailer and on your truck by giving us the braking force we need when we need it. In an emergency stop situations where we really stand on our brake very hard, we're going to get that braking force sent to our trailer. The proportional aspect of the controller allows it to do that.
In an emergency braking situation, the internal sensor senses the negative deceleration and that sends a lot of braking force back immediately. In a normal stop situation, it's going to send a normal amount of braking power back, and if we're just in stop and go traffic, it's going to send very minimal braking power back. Unlike a time delayed system, we don't have to wait for activation like this. We don't have to wait for it to slowly build up. This is going to give us the force we need immediately. To adjust the amount of power, you see here it says 14 We've got our gain adjustment buttons over here.
The lower we set our gain, the less braking force we're going to be sending out to our trailer. For lighter loads or smaller trailers, we want less braking force. On heavier trailers, we're going to want more braking force. The idea is to have this set as high as you can before you start dragging the wheels on the trailers, which can cause flat spotting. To further fine tune that you have your boost mode.
It's going to be the button on the top left here. See right now we don't have any boost set. We select it. It's going to say boost level 1, boost level 2, and boost level 3. Essentially this is designed for as the trailers get larger and larger and larger, we're going to turn out boost to a higher setting. That changes the quickness and the aggressiveness in which our brakes are going to be applied.
The great thing about the P3 is it's fully programmable and it allows you to adjust your display. We can adjust the brightness, the color and the contrast. You've got several colors there that you can pick from, and we can store up to 7 user preferences inside of the brake controller, so if we have different trailers or different weights, or different drivers, everybody can have their own pre-set, get in here, hit the button and you'll be ready to go. This is also going to work out great for the electric or the electric over hydraulic braking systems. If we're heading down the road and our plug becomes disconnected, you'll see how the screen's going to flash that red and indicate to us that we have something that needs to be addressed. As soon as we get that reattached and plugged back in, we're right back to normal. On the bottom here we also have an easy to get to manual override lever. This is going to allow us to send braking force to our trailer without the need to hit the brakes in our truck, so in sway situations or something like that when we need to get it addressed, we can easily bring this over to whatever point we want, to apply the right amount of brakes that we need at the time to get that corrected. The first thing we're going to do is gain access behind this panel to get to the plug that we'll be plugging our pigtail into. We'll have 3 push pin fasteners to remove. You can see we've got one here, one closer to the middle and one just above our parking brake. The small, metal round part, we want to pull that out first. Now we'll pull down and just straight back to us. We can set this aside. We'll reinstall it later. If we look right behind the parking brake, there will be the larger gray plug there. It's going to have some electrical tape holding it to this wing. Cut that down and we can plug our pigtail right into it. Now our connector is going to plug right in there, locking tabs are on the top, just make sure you hear it click. It will spring up there indicating we've got a good connection. For mounting our brake controller in this application we're going to be using this small metal bracket with the quick release. That's going to allow it to fit right up in this area. If you don't want to use this style to use the metal bracket, you're probably going to have to mount it right in this area or over here on the dashboard, but I would use caution in both of those areas because you're limited in the room you have here in the floor board. You don't want to hit your leg on it every time you get in and out. We'll bring it right up there where we want it to go. That looks like it will be in a fine spot, easy to get to. Pick our location, we'll get our bracket leveled out there and make the marks for our location. We'll use one of the provided, self-tapping 1/4 inch screws. We'll place that through our bracket and get it started. We'll place that right in between there. It's going to be a little bit tight but we'll get our screw started from the outside. Now we're ready to plug our brake controller in. It lights up there, indicating we got power and we'll bring it up and we'll slide the back end of the bracket, and slide it upward to attach the rest. The little bit of pigtail we've got left over, we'll zip tie this up and out of the way. There's a wire loom that runs right up here. That would be a good spot to attach it to. Now we'll get our panel slid back up in position here. We can re-secure it with our fasteners. You'll see there's a little notch in this cover right here that works out great. If you just bring your pigtail over, we can push that panel up, perfect place to keep it up and out of the way. To test out your controller, you'll want to plug a trailer into it. It's going to switch from that standard P3 screen that we had initially, into our controller screen. We'll just operate that manual override lever. All right. It's working great. Now with everything working properly, that's going to complete our installation of the Tekonsha Prodigy P3 Proportional Brake Controller, part number 90195, also using the Tekonsha Plug In Wiring Adapter, part number 3026-P, both on our 2015 Buick Enclave.
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