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Hi there Ford owners. Today in your 2019 Ford ranger, we're gonna be taking a look at showing you how to install REDARC Tow-Pro Elite brake controllers. This controller is designed to work with trailers with one to three axles. And this is what our brake controller looks like when it's installed. And this is the best feature of this brake controller is how little footprint it takes up in your vehicle. Really all that you're gonna see is this tiny little knob here.
And this is how you're gonna make all your adjustments to your brake controller is right through this knob. It even has a manual adjustment just like on your traditional brake controllers with the manual slider. This one, you just push in on the knob to apply the brakes. And it's just like your manual slider. The only difference here between the manual slider is you can kind of vary in between what the slider.
With this one, rather than being able to vary in between it's just on or off. But as you turn the knob to the gain setting that you desire it is gonna apply it to that amount. So if you want it to, you could press it in and you could slowly ramp it up or just instantly be at the highest pressure however you'd like it. But the biggest thing about this is that it's all done with this tiny little knob. We don't have a big brake controller mounted underneath our dash near our steering wheel where we're hitting our knee on it when we're getting in and out, accidentally messing up our settings and we're bumping into it.
And it's just cumbersome to have another unit here. And most of the units that install on your vehicle underneath the column in this area, they have very particular mounting orientations that they need to be in limiting where you can place them in the vehicle. Which is why they often end up being here, 'cause this is the best spot, even though it's not an ideal spot, it usually is the best. With the REDARC, the control module can be mounted in any orientation and we can put it anywhere we want. We've actually got ours hidden behind the dash panel here, and we can easily see it by pulling down our dash panel as our module is located right here.
With this being remotely mounted, we can keep it nice and hidden giving us a much nicer looking install and also just being more comfortable here in the driver's seat 'cause we have no large clunky brake controller, just this nice little integrated knob in our dash. And when it's in a blue light mode like you see it here, that indicates that we're in proportional mode, which means it's gonna be using that inertia sensor to determine how hard to apply the brakes on our trailer. We can adjust the sensitivity with our knob here and you see, as I turn it up, it's increasing because I do have my foot on the brake right now and it goes from a shade of blue to a shade of red. To change from the proportional mode which is our blue light mode here, we can turn out full counter-clockwise to zero holding our brake pedal and then double tap our knob. And that's gonna switch our light to the green light which is gonna put us in user control mode. In the user control mode, it ignores the inertia sensor just applies the brakes fully to whatever we have set on our adjustment knob here. So if we have it set to 10, every time we hit the brake, it is gonna apply it to that maximum brake pressure and vice versa. If we go down, it's going to do it to just a small amount, but it's only going to do it to exactly what we have set. It's not gonna be proportional in any way or use that inertia sensor to gradually apply and release the brakes as necessary to make it feel natural. This is most often used in off-road applications where you are in a lot of mud or loose gravel where you don't necessarily want it to be proportional, you just want your brakes to work 'cause you're in those more slippery conditions. You can switch back from this mode by just double tapping on the knob again to go back to the proportional mode. Now, as far as user input, that's really all there is to it. You can adjust the gain right here and you've got your two different modes. This brake controller does work with electric over hydraulic brakes but requires
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