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Re: [St] Toy Haulers

I've just bought a Prodigy brake controller ($130 shipped). It's getting
installed Friday. It gets high marks.  It supposedly is an 'install and
forget' kind of deal with only minor tweaks required (if at all).  It has a
sensor to tell how hard you brake and then brakes the trailer in kind.  This
is different from a standard brake controller that is either on or off with
how much braking force determined by manual adjustment.  They are a pain
because you want the trailer to brake harder than the truck to minimize the
change of jack knifing.  But then, the trailer brakes to hard for slow
speeds, like parking.

--Joel


On 7/30/08, Matt Knowles <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> On Jul 29, 2008, at 11:18 PM, Joel Ashman wrote:
>
> I looked at a Kargoroo by Outback.  I thought that was a cool camper/toy
>> hauler.  The queen size bed folded up and made room for an ATV or 2 bikes.
>> 26-ish feet long.  Not a 5th wheel, so it was a good option for us.  I
>> don't
>> recall it having any slide outs, so it might not be appropriate for long
>> term living.
>>
>>
> That's probably about the length that I'm going to look at. With the Dakota
> I'm not sure I'd want to go much bigger. It's got the power, but it's the
> brakes I'd be worried about. I've never towed a trailer with brakes so I'm
> not sure how much braking is done by the trailer vs. the vehicle pulling it.
>
> Matt Knowles
> Aesthetic Design & Photography - www.aestheticdesign.com - (707) 786-4643
>
>
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