Lynn608
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Good morning all,
I have a six year old Tekonsha Voyager braking system on my Chevy 250 which is suddenly acting erratically. I'm planning on replacing it with the Tekonsha P3 digital read out. Has anyone had any experience with this model. Would appreciate feed back.
Towing a 35ft Fifth wheel weighs around 11,000 all up.
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Cool Canuck
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Best move you'll ever make. ..... with brake controllers that is.
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Both, the P3 is worlds above the voyager.
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Brewurown
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I had a Voyager when I had a 7000 lb TT and it worked SO SO. When I replaced the TT with a 5er about 12000 lbs, it seemed that I had to adjust the controller every time I traveled. I replaced it with a P2, set it once and forget it. It works correctly every time. Best move I made.
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Brewurown wrote:I had a Voyager when I had a 7000 lb TT and it worked SO SO. When I replaced the TT with a 5er about 12000 lbs, it seemed that I had to adjust the controller every time I traveled. I replaced it with a P2, set it once and forget it. It works correctly every time. Best move I made.
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Randu
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Lynn608 wrote:Good morning all,
I have a six year old Tekonsha Voyager braking system on my Chevy 250 which is suddenly acting erratically. I'm planning on replacing it with the Tekonsha P3 digital read out. Has anyone had any experience with this model. Would appreciate feed back.
Towing a 35ft Fifth wheel weighs around 11,000 all up.
Thanks
By erratic do mean brakes and then no brakes or moderate brakes? Problem comes and goes? Sometimes acts like like the trailer brakes are pulsating on and off?
I had a short to ground during braking on 2 different trailers. My first thought was controller but problem turned out to be chaffed wire inside axle tube as wire is routed to the wheels. Wire had multiple small chafes from axle tube rust that caused burn thru and shorts. Randu
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PikeRoadWarrior
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I'm not familiar with the Voyager, but the P2 (and I think the P3, I'm not sure) will give you feedback on wiring problems through the display. If you do have electrical issues, the P2 may indicate them for you.
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CharmCityRV
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Another Tekonsha user here that thought the controller was going up, but in fact it was indicating correctly a ground to short the same as Randu.
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8ntw8tn
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I have the P2 model. It's great and I think you'd really like having the P3. That said, everytime in the past I thought I had a controller problem it turned out to be a wiring problem. I'd suggest a thorough check of the system before replacing the controller. Unless of course you want the controller anyway. You just may get a new controller AND have to repair some wiring. Hope this helps.
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Cool Canuck
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While it may indeed be a wiring problem, I had a Tekonsha Voyager controller go bad after 6 years of faithful service. It got so I could not set it so the manual braking would be effective once the inertial braking was set properly. If I set it so I had manual braking, the inertial braking was violent and locked up the trailer brakes immediately. Replaced with a P3 and never looked back....that is until I replaced the P3 with a new truck. 
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