brake controllers

I have a Tekonsha Voyager Gajm, and have it mounted on the dash of our Patrol..... sometimes it seems that the brakes on the trailer are really savage though, even suddenly locking up for no reason when I brake.... does yours do this? I plan to re-calibrate it asap.... but am curious to know what yours does.

I originaly got the voyager, but sent it back without ever using it, I wanted the Prodigy cause you dont need to constantly reset it, plus can use it with reversing. I havn't had any probs like that with mine, always apply pretty cleanly. Does the Voyager have the boost button? and that isnt on is it?

The Voyager has the overide slider, No it isn't on, but I went out and checked just in case! I followed the set up instructions pretty close but I may have set it a bit close. But we noticed coming home from Bonalbo a couple of weeks back that occassionally the brakes would lock up as I applied the pedal. And then the next time it wouldn't.... so I don't know if it's just the calibration is out or the unit is faulty. I thought I'd re-cal it and see what happens and then if it still occurrs I'll take it back. I have no problems with reversing with it, and as far as I know, it doesn't need to be reset each and every time it is initialized... (Repco tried to sell me one that does!)
Thanks for your reply mate... have a good day!

Post for Brian on his Tekonsha unit locking the brakes. Had the same problem with a unit I had and discovered it was the earth lead failing to make good contact. Without that the unit applies all power thru the brake system. Not nice. Hope this will help.

Thanks for that murrayw1.
Is that the earth lead for the unit or the brakes themselves? I will check both to make sure...

Thats the earth lead from the unit itself. Should be attached to an earthing point on the vehicle.

if you measure from the side of the pocket...at the most foward part of the it (not including the levers for clipping and unclipping it), then it sticks out 47mm, if you can set it up so you have only 35 mm sticking out then you will still be able to reach the slider and the buttons on top of the Prodigy. Give me a yell if you can't understand what I said, or if you want other measurments.

Seriously recommend the Prodigy over the others. No manual leveling, but more importantly it does not use a pendulum, which for off-roading can become a pain. It uses some electronic solid state thingy (Hall effect???) instead. I have it installed in the ashtray housing of my LC100 (don't smoke) - fits it real neat...

As for your dash problems - can't help there. Don't know much about the Su-bees...;)

/viz