Tekonsha Primus IQ

[Xbob2]

Does anyone have any experience with this new brake controller? Is it "betterer" than the P3?
Bob

[moosetags]

I don't know anything about the Primus IQ.

I am currently using a Tekonsha Prodigy in my '05 Suburban, and a Tekonsha P3 in my '04 Suburban. Both have worked very well for me, but I like the P3 better.

I'm not sure about one being "better" than the others, but in ascending price order, it is the Primus IQ, then the Prodigy, and the P3 is the most expensive.

Brian

[ROBERTSUNRUS]

Hi, my first brake controller was a Tekonsha Voyager and it worked well, but was a pain to make adjustments because it had no numbers to go by, just feel. The Tekonsha Prodigy has worked very well for many people. I was going to upgrade to the Prodigy when the P-3 came out, so I went with the P-3 and I am very happy with it. I think all of the Tekonsha brake controllers are good, but I would have to put them in order of price, from good to better.

(1.) Voyager.................Good

(2.) Primus IQ...............Better

(3.) Prodigy...........Very Good

(4.) P-3.......................Best

The picture on the left shows the Voyager that I removed; And I replaced it with the P-3, shown in the picture on the right.

[Xbob2]

Thanks for the info ... to read the website you would think that the "IQ" was the latest and greatest. The ad copy was "totally" written by someone from California! I was a bit put off by the P3's multifunction buttons. kind of like digital watches when they first came out ... you never knew which button to press for what or what sequence to press them in. (I don't have a watch ...) The good 'ol boy that I like to deal with for parts said that the Techumsa 9030 was the best. Thats what he sells anyway but upon further investigation it seems to be yesterday's technology.
Guess I'll go with a P3.
Bob

Originally Posted by ROBERTSUNRUS

Hi, my first brake controller was a Tekonsha Voyager and it worked well, but was a pain to make adjustments because it had no numbers to go by, just feel. The Tekonsha Prodigy has worked very well for many people. I was going to upgrade to the Prodigy when the P-3 came out, so I went with the P-3 and I am very happy with it. I think all of the Tekonsha brake controllers are good, but I would have to put them in order of price, from good to better.

(1.) Voyager.................Good

(2.) Primus IQ...............Better

(3.) Prodigy...........Very Good

(4.) P-3.......................Best

The picture on the left shows the Voyager that I removed; And I replaced it with the P-3, shown in the picture on the right.

[newroswell]

Bob, I've got the P3. It's very nice and simple. It has the up/down buttons on the left for more or less braking. The color LCD is normally blue until the trailer is disconnected and it flashes red for a short while. It has a large swing lever underneath to manually apply braking. You can go into the menu and change lots of settings, colors and brightness if you want. Other than dimming the brightness of the LCD a little, the defaults are fine for me.

It comes with a short DVD on installation and tuning the boost level for your truck and trailer. Works good so far.

[Xbob2]

Thanks!
UMMM ... is the picture of your stretched truck real or just Memorex?
Bob

Originally Posted by newroswell

Bob, I've got the P3. It's very nice and simple. It has the up/down buttons on the left for more or less braking. The color LCD is normally blue until the trailer is disconnected and it flashes red for a short while. It has a large swing lever underneath to manually apply braking. You can go into the menu and change lots of settings, colors and brightness if you want. Other than dimming the brightness of the LCD a little, the defaults are fine for me.

It comes with a short DVD on installation and tuning the boost level for your truck and trailer. Works good so far.

[Xbob2]

I find a P3 in town and head out to the RV dealer(SOB). In talking to the parts guy I said "Some guy in north county said the Techumsa 9030 is the best!" expecting the guy to laugh ... but he said "Thats what I use!!! Its the Best! It has inertia control!" Color me stupid ... unhappily bought the P3 and went home ... Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

[newroswell]

You shouldn't be unhappy about buying a P3, you have a good brake controller. Google doesn't know anything about a Techumsa brake controller? Is that the correct spelling?

[moosetags]

I don't know anything about the Techumsa 9030. The Tekonsha 9030 is the Voyager, and it is one of their lower end controllers. It sounds like you were talking to an idiot. The P3 is what you want.

Brian

[ROBERTSUNRUS]

Originally Posted by Xbob2

Thanks for the info ... to read the website you would think that the "IQ" was the latest and greatest. The ad copy was "totally" written by someone from California! I was a bit put off by the P3's multifunction buttons. kind of like digital watches when they first came out ... you never knew which button to press for what or what sequence to press them in. (I don't have a watch ...) The good 'ol boy that I like to deal with for parts said that the Techumsa 9030 was the best. Thats what he sells anyway but upon further investigation it seems to be yesterday's technology.
Guess I'll go with a P3.
Bob

Hi, I will tell you from experience the the four button Tekonsha P-3 is much easier to adjust than the Tekonsha Voyager. Don't let the four buttons intimidate you. The Voyager has two knobs and an LED that is green and will turn red, but half way in-between it will turn orange. You have no numbers or scale to go by, so all adjustments on the Voyager are by feel. On the P-3 You can set it at 8.3 and if it is too high you can set it at 8.2, 8.1, or 8.0 Etc. until you have the desired setting.

Maybe I understand it better because I'm a native Californian.

[FreshAir]

On the trip from Lava Beds Cararally to Carmel via Reno my ancient controller was cutting in and out. It's done that before so as we approached a Camping World I made the sudden decision to get something new. The Prodigy was on sale and I heard that it's good unit so I bought one and planned to install it at the next stop. I had the wire stripper, butt splices and crimper with me. But that next overniter and the weekend in Carmel and the subsequent trip home last Tues the old controller behaved itself. The Prodigy is mounted up under the dash now (Bob shouldn't bang his knees) but still haven't wired it up yet. Gotta do that soon as we are off again next week.
Neil

[ronstory]

Just chiming in... I have the P3 and it works just fine and gives me enough info in 'english' vs. the decdoe of the blinking lights.

My 2 cents.

[Xbob2]

AAAH! I'll bet that when I was talking to the good 'ol boy (he had a slight downstate accent) that he SAID Teknosha but I HEARD Techumsa. Now it all becomes clear!
Got the P3 and am putting it in today ready for my next weeks trim to Nm.
Bob

Originally Posted by moosetags

I don't know anything about the Techumsa 9030. The Tekonsha 9030 is the Voyager, and it is one of their lower end controllers. It sounds like you were talking to an idiot. The P3 is what you want.

Brian