Brake Controller question

As was told to me by my local tech.  When checking brakes from a cold start, either hold the button on your controller in for a short time to heat up the brakes or try a couple of long slow stops.  Will heat them up and then will work properly.  Safe Travels.

My wife and I almost hit a texting idiot at Wal-Mart the other day.  Except it would have been our car vs. her body.  Made a blind entrance onto the roadway from the front entrance, from behind a van that was parked on the curb.  Didn't look left or right or slow down, obviously she was so absorbed with her phone she didn't even know she was in the road.  Luckily since we were near the entrance we were travelling really slow already (due to similar experiences) and stopped in time.  She still didn't know what almost happened to her as she continued on, oblivious.

I've owned both the Prodigy and the Voyager, which I'm now using. To me, the Voyager works just as well as the Prodigy. The readout on the Prodigy is nice in that it tells you how you're doing and you can easily dial in your settings once you've found your baseline. That being said, using the nail polish is a good idea with the Voyager's lack of  a readout. I totally agree with TNT. I always want to feel that little tug when the trailer brakes engage, particularly with the lack of the digitals on the Voyager. Whenever we leave for a tow, I run up to about 20 MPH and manually engage the trailer brakes to ensure that they feel good.

Most of the Tekonsha line has the inertia sensors instead of the old style timers, so I'll assume that is true of the one you got.  When adjusted properly my Tekonsha Prodigy is completely smooth.  That said, I do prefer to feel just a slight tug when I brake.

I don't know how others set their brakes I don't like to feel the trailer push the tv or pull it. Your setting does sound a little aggressive. I role the gain all the way off on mine and test the breaks if the trailer pushes I increase the gain and try again until the push goes away.