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Curt Echo Wireless Trailer Brake Controller???

Thunder_Mountai
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Explorer
Need to tow a trailer with electric brakes behind our 2016 Winnebago Journey. Ran across the Curt Echo Wireless Trailer Brake Controller on etrailer.com Called and talked with them and this seems almost too good to be true. But etrailer assured me it was as simple as Curt says it is. Price is a little more than a good brake controller and the required pigtail to plug into the Freightliner chassis. Comments please!
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ScottG
Nomad
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spud1957 wrote:
In an emergency situation and you need to manually activate the trailer brakes, grabbing my cell phone and waking it up to activate the brakes would be a deal "braker" for me.

S


Nice one. 😉

babock
Explorer
Explorer
If the brake controller loses contact with the remote, it still keeps whatever setting it had previously. The only issue with these would be the emergency manual activation.

If I was using the trailer on multiple vehicles, I would have no problem using these. I would prefer the Tekonsha.

spud1957
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Explorer
In an emergency situation and you need to manually activate the trailer brakes, grabbing my cell phone and waking it up to activate the brakes would be a deal "braker" for me.

S
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Executive45
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Lwiddis wrote:
I’m too old school to place my trust in a wireless brake controller system.


I was thinking the same thing. Altho wires can fail, the wireless stuff just seems too iffy. Any interference, in my case, would occur at the worst possible moment....Dennis
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1SG
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I know nothing about the Curt controller but I use the Tekonsha wireless controller and love it. I can move it from one tow rig to another without a problem. I've used it for over 5 years now.
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Lwiddis
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I’m too old school to place my trust in a wireless brake controller system.
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