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BigDaveZJ
09-25-2006, 11:43 PM
School me, I'm fawking clueless. Looking to pick one up here soon.

nate
09-25-2006, 11:55 PM
Prodigy or Jordan.

I run the Jordan in my truck. It has a cable that attaches to the brake pedal to sense how much trailer brakes to apply. It works decent, but I'm not 100% happy with it... I need to fine tune it a bit more I think.

Prodigy is internia I believe.

Both are around $130 or so.

ATL ZJ
09-26-2006, 12:47 AM
Tekonsha Prodigy. It's considered the top of the line. Picked up mine for around 100 and I'm nothing but happy.

Cody
09-26-2006, 02:02 AM
I have a tekonsha voyager and a draw-tite? something like that. I like the tekonsha one better.

You should have a harness already in there that you can wire to. Remember, that white is ground and black is 12 volt on trailer wiring systems. Ass backwards from most other 12 volt stuff.

Cody

RUYellow
09-26-2006, 02:15 AM
Tekonsha Prodigy. It's considered the top of the line. Picked up mine for around 100 and I'm nothing but happy.

I second that, I just bought an 04 Diesel Excursion for the wife. We tow a 28' Camp trailer and I was worried about braking. I bought the Tekonsha Prodigy and have never worried about it again.

I bought it off EBAY, new from a place called Dryers RV. About $100 shipped to me, and they also have premade wiring harnesses for vehicles with connectors.

http://stores.ebay.com/Dyers-RV-Supplies

P.S. I have no affiliation with them, just was happy with the service.

BigDaveZJ
09-26-2006, 09:07 AM
I searched a bit on Diesel Stop last night too (and DAMN does their search suck) and heard many good things about the Tekonsha Prodigy there as well, so that looks like the one.

Now they list a wiring harness to hook it up too, but then they show running 4 other wires (+,-,brake light, and to the trailer). If your vehicle can be hooked up to the harness would I need to do the other crap too?

nate
09-26-2006, 09:49 AM
All you need is the wiring harness. On the Dodges it plugs right there under the dash. I believe the harness came with the truck even as part of the tow package. Not sure how Ford does it.
Plug in the harness, connect the wires to the brake controller and that's it.

Did you do a search for the Jordan? When I bought my controller, it basically ended up being Brakesmart #1, Jordan #2, Prodigy #3.

The Brakesmart is over $400, so I didn't go with that.

BigDaveZJ
09-26-2006, 09:53 AM
There were some people I found on dieselstop that had some of the older Jordan models that REALLY disliked theirs, haven't heard anything bad yet about the Prodigy, probably end up with one of those.

RUYellow
09-26-2006, 07:14 PM
I searched a bit on Diesel Stop last night too (and DAMN does their search suck) and heard many good things about the Tekonsha Prodigy there as well, so that looks like the one.

Now they list a wiring harness to hook it up too, but then they show running 4 other wires (+,-,brake light, and to the trailer). If your vehicle can be hooked up to the harness would I need to do the other crap too?

A quote from Tekonsha's website.

"Equipped with a self-adjusting sensing device similar to the one used in guided-missile technology"

Need I say more.

http://www.tekonsha.com/prodig.html

I had to remove the pannel below the steering wheel, the plug was just inside that.

If you buy the Prodigy, it comes with a harness. Your Truck came factory with a harness as well. Each of these are a plug and the other end is just wires. You need to connect the wires together so that you will then have a plug-wire-plug. Or do what I did, for like $10.00 I bought the Tekonsha wiring harness, It plugs into the Ford, and into the Tekonsha.

Click BUY It Now on the next 2 links and you don't have to worry about it any more. You will be happy.

Tekonsha Prodigy
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Tekonsha-Prodigy-Brake-Controller-Version-2-6_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQcategoryZ50073QQihZ013QQitemZ2 30033147392QQtcZphoto

Tekonsha Harness
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Brake-Control-Wiring-Harness-for-Ford-1994-to-2005_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQcategoryZ50073QQihZ013QQite mZ230031673606QQtcZphoto

A good link to a VIN Decoder for you.
http://superdutydiesel.com/wiki2/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=33

I know they aren't MallCrawlin...but these are some good forums for Superdutys.

http://www.superdutydiesel.com/forums/index.php

http://www.powerstrokeforum.com/forum/index.php

OverkillZJ
09-26-2006, 08:18 PM
I have a tekonsha voyager and a draw-tite? something like that. I like the tekonsha one better.

You should have a harness already in there that you can wire to. Remember, that white is ground and black is 12 volt on trailer wiring systems. Ass backwards from most other 12 volt stuff.

Cody

I've got the same controller (tekonsha voyager) and it works quite well, if I bought new would've gotten the voyager though, like the memory functions.

On the wiring - Cody's right for "standard" - but bust out the voltmeter to be sure.

BigDaveZJ
09-27-2006, 08:41 AM
Ordered up the Prodigy last night.

For the trip to Moab here in a couple weeks, my Jeep will be in a spot that it is very familiar with too, on Corey's trailer, just behind MY truck now!

RUYellow
09-27-2006, 10:41 AM
Ordered up the Prodigy last night.

For the trip to Moab here in a couple weeks, my Jeep will be in a spot that it is very familiar with too, on Corey's trailer, just behind MY truck now!

Congrats, you will love the automatic adjustment. You set it once @ I think 25MPH. Then you do not adjust it for flat or hills again. You do have a manual override should something bad happen and you require it.