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Old 05-12-2004, 10:16 AM
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It's a brake controller for a trailer with electric brakes. They provide an electrical signal that varies with what the controller decides is how hard you are trying to brake the vehicle. There's also a manual lever so you can apply trailer brakes without applying vehicle brakes.

The other type of trailer brakes are surge brakes and these are a purely mechanical system where a cylinder attached to the trailer tongue provides hydraulic pressure when the trailer pushes forward on the vehicle.

Electric brakes can be easily retro-fitted; surge brakes are much harder to add.
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