MAX BRAKE Controler

[Diesel Dave 04]

Is any one here useing a MAX Brake? Looking for input.

[EAW]

Yes. I installed it myself and absolutely love it. There is a section of road that we frequently use that has a bad washboard effect as you approach the stop sign. It would drive my previous controller crazy and result in everything from no trailer brakes all the way through locking the wheels. The Max Brake works perfect there and other places because it does not use a pendulum or other inertia system to determine braking power.

[Diesel Dave 04]

I'm going to hyd. disk Brakes and I need to upgrade my controler, I dont think the prodigy I have is made to work with the eletric over hyd actuator.
Any one want to upgrade to a prodigy?
Thanks for the reply I just wanted to hear from some ones real world testing.

[campswithcritters]

Prodigy does work with Carlisle (most popular) hyd actuator. In fact Mor-Ryde said when they installed my discs that they have the best results with Prodigy and the hyd unit. I do not know which others will work with the hydraulic unit, but can vouch for the Prodigy working with discs.

[Diesel Dave 04]

Prodigy does work with Carlisle (most popular) hyd actuator. In fact Mor-Ryde said when they installed my discs that they have the best results with Prodigy and the hyd unit. I do not know which others will work with the hydraulic unit, but can vouch for the Prodigy working with discs.

Are ou useing ThisActuator ? http://www.southwestwheel.com/store/p-1 ... 13100.aspx

with this controler? http://www.southwestwheel.com/store/p-6 ... odigy.aspx

Thanks

[campswithcritters]

No on the actuator, but yes on the controller. I'll try to find a link to my actuator.

[campswithcritters]

My actuator is this one: http://www.carlislebrake.com/pdfs/hydrastar.pdf

[bigbunkhouse]

Dave these were the best prices I had found, didja do any better?

https://www.southwestwheel.com/store/Sh ... m13378ekit

http://shop.easternmarine.com/index.cfm ... ket.basket

your shipping should be about the same or less, your in a good location, most of my stuff goes thru penn to get here.

[Diesel Dave 04]

Matt Yep that's what I found and I tryed to talk to them at south west wheel and ask them to meet the $499. on the actuator so I could get every thing at one place but they wont do it I said but I will even buy the Max brake controler also, They said Nope! so I guss i will be buying the actuator at eastcoast.

[Diesel Dave 04]

My actuator is this one: http://www.carlislebrake.com/pdfs/hydrastar.pdf

Bruce, Are you useing one of these with it? http://www.carlislebrake.com/pdfs/HBACAMsheet.pdf

[campswithcritters]

Not using one of the additional units but it is working correctly. My actuator might be an older model that does not need it?

[Diesel Dave 04]

I installed the MaxBrake controler before i went up to pinegrove,(twinn grove KOA) no disk brakes yet But I wanted to see how well it would work with the drum brakes.
The controler is By far the best controler I ever used. works great, Unreal how much smoother the rig stoped. www.plugitright.com sells them now if your looking for one. I cant wait to see how well it works with the disk brakes. All the disk brakes showed up here sat. But i left the camper up at the camp ground cause im going back up next sat. Just wanted to report on how it worked They are not cheep But they work well. I guess you get what you pay for.