GSL brake controller

Thanks for your helpful, thoughtful and friendly response, it highlights the enormous contribution that you have made to this website and forum.

No worries
Brevity and honesty beats sarcasm and more replies agree with me than prefer your choice.

Looks arent everything . Take Troopys Ugly as sin but millions going.

Same with brake contollers. Its whats inside that matters.
Cheers

Not everyone agrees with the "consensus" on the Tekonsha Prodigy, it would seem...

My daughter & SIL are currently in Darwin en route 'round the block (with their 'van & 2 young 'uns), and along the way their Prodigy P3 has thrown up a fault code (and refused to work)..
Had an auto-lec up there check it out, and he has declared the unit to be faulty..

He also told them that he has had to replace so many of these units (both Prodigy and P3, I'm told) under warranty, that he now refuses to stock that brand, and certainly doesn't recommend them....

That's the story as told to me, make of it what you will...

If mine (P3) goes the same way, I'll most certainly be having a close look at the (Aussie made ?) GSL unit as a replacement...

;-)

We have never see a Prodigy come back not working.

Since I have been on the forum (Nearly two years) I have never seen a complaint against either the Prodigy or the P3

Plenty about the Voyager.

Are you sure you havent got your apples and oranges mixed up

Did not say that I hate the Tekonsha, I do not like the looks of it, I do like the looks of the GSL, I was simply asking a question. I like the Oz made aspect and the price is right.

Graham,
While I cannot verify what others may (or may not) have been told, I do know what I was told, and I did ask for confirmation re the model(s) to which the sparky was (allegedly) referring..

I also know beyond doubt that the failed unit to which I referred, is a Tekonsha P3, so there are no apples and oranges mixed up here...

What you choose to believe is up to you.. no skin off my nose either way...

Fair enough

Was just asking a question in view of the lack of complaints against one and the hundreds against the other.

My Prodigy is over two years old and has given not a moments trouble.

Nothing as we know is perfect and there must be the odd faulty one I guess.



Cheers

We prefer using fuses over self resetting circuit breakers.

Most people will not know they have a problem as the circuit breaker keeps resetting so they just keep driving, with a fuse they know something is wrong as it will not work at all so they will take it to someone for repairs.

If installed correctly there should not be a problem with fuses or circuit breakers.

Most of the times it comes down to installation and components used that cause problems.

Some people like circuit breakers and others like fuses, a fuse is a more tell tail sign something is wrong.

You are right aboutr how the Redarc and GSL work, most brake controllers work the same way.

They have a mechanical pendulam that is used as a switch to turn them on and off, the down side is they can not detect differant brake forces and will only provide one level of braking.

With the Prodigy they use an electronic variable pendulam that can vary the amount of bake fource depending how hard you brake.

The Prodigy works much like you vehicle brakes, the more force you apply to the the brake pedal and the vehicles brakes the more braking applied to the trailer brakes

This has saved us a couple of times.