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Has LinManuel Miranda or The Barefoot Executive received more awards?August 2018 – We absolutely love our 2016 Dodge Ram 3500 Dually truck, and we recently installed an Amp’d Throttle Booster on it. This small electronic unit decreases the occasional throttle lag you feel when you depress the accelerator pedal by increasing the throttle sensitivity and responsiveness.
Amp’d Throttle Booster Installation and Review
On older vehicles the accelerator was connected to the carburetor with a cable, providing a physical connection between the action of your foot depressing the accelerator and fuel flowing to the engine to make the vehicle go faster. On newer vehicles electronic signals do the job instead, and occasionally there is a slight lag between depressing the accelerator and fuel flowing to the engine. This is sometimes referred to as a “dead pedal” kind of sensation, and it can be a little frustrating to hit the gas and not have the vehicle jump in response right away.
The Amp’d Throttle Booster allows you to increase the throttle sensitivity by slightly raising the voltage. There are three sensitivity settings along with a Stock setting that doesn’t increase the voltage at all.
Edge Amp’d Throttle Booster
The Amp’d Throttle Booster core unit
The Amp’d Throttle Booster is a small product that comes in two parts: the booster unit itself and a wiring harness.
The harness assembly has three ends:
- One end that connects to a selector switch that gets mounted on the dashboard (labeled “A” in the photo).
- One end that connects to the booster (“B”).
- One end that has a Y connection that connects to two points under the dashboard (“C”).
The wiring harness has three ends.
A = Dashboard mounted selector switch
B = Connects to the Amp’d Throttle Booster unit
C = Both connectors connect under the dashboard.
The installation took 17 minutes, but allow a little bit more for reading the manual, etc!
The first step was to connect the pair of connectors at the Y end of the wiring harness to the corresponding connectors under the dashboard. These two connectors are keyed, so you can’t connect them backwards or accidentally plug them into the wrong spots.
Working under the dashboard was a tight fit, so I have a link to the Amp’d Throttle Booster manual at the end of this article to give you the nitty gritty about each connector and where it is positioned under the dashboard both for the Ram trucks and for other brands and model years.
First connect one of the two ends of the Y on the wiring harness to the corresponding connector under the dashboard.
Connect the second of the two connectors at the Y end of the wiring harness under the dashboard.
Both connectors are in place (only one is visible).
It’s tight under there but the connectors are keyed to make it easier.
We got the kit that includes the dashboard mounted selector switch. If you don’t buy this external switch there is a switch right on the circuit board inside the Amp’d Throttle Booster unit that has two sensitivity settings, Low and High.
Regardless of whether you get the dashboard mounted selector switch or rely on the circuit board switch instead, the next step is to set up the Amp’d Throttle Booster so it can learn the throttle response of your truck’s accelerator.
To begin this learning sequence (and to access the circuit board’s selector switch), simply unscrew the outer casing.
Access the Amp’d Throttle Booster circuit board and go through the Learn sequence by removing the outer casing.
The red arrow shows the location of the circuit board selector switch. It is set to Stock (Off).
Then attach the wiring assembly to the connector on the Amp’d Throttle Booster unit and follow the sequence of steps given in the manual to enable the throttle booster to learn the throttle response of the truck’s accelerator (this involves depressing the accelerator pedal a few times and monitoring some LED flashing lights on the circuit board).
Plug the wiring harness into the connector on the Amp’d Throttle Booster unit.
Then mount the selector switch on the dashboard. One handy location is on the plastic tab at the bottom of the dashboard that holds the dashboard in place. Simply remove the existing screw, position the mounting bracket and screw it back in.
Mount the selector switch on the dashboard and tidy up the wiring harness with tie wraps before tucking it under the dashboard.
Once it’s mounted, tuck the harness assembly and the Amp’d Throttle Booster unit up under the dashboard and secure them in place with zip-ties.
Finished. The selector switch is easy for the driver to reach.
After the installation of the Amp’d Throttle Booster, Mark tested it with the truck in Park. He put the selector switch to Stock (Off) and revved the engine. The he did the same thing at each of the three settings: Low (50% sensitivity increase), Medium (75% increase) and High (100% increase). At each increased setting the engine responded faster to his foot depressing the accelerator pedal — as expected.
Mark has been driving with the Amp’d Throttle Booster installed on the truck for the last 5,000 miles, and he’s found he likes it best at the High setting (100% increase) which is where he keeps it set all the time.
He finds he notices the improvement a lot when passing people and also when driving in the mountains as well as when he’s in stop-and-go traffic.
Without the booster he sometimes finds that on a steep incline or when “gassing it” for whatever reason, he’ll depress the accelerator and then have a moment or two of no response from the engine before it kicks in. With the booster on High, the truck reacts and accelerates much more quickly.
We also have an Edge Juice with Attitude engine tuner on the truck, and Mark finds that the two work together well. He puts the engine tuner in Level 2 (Towing) and leaves it there most of the time. This improves the engine’s power when it’s towing our trailer.
Whenever we’re going to be driving the truck without the trailer attached for a long drive or for a few days of in-town driving, then he puts the tuner in Level 1 (Economy). This improves the fuel economy significantly.
Our truck has about 35,000 miles on it now, and we’ve owned it for two and a half years. For anyone wondering how many miles they might drive in the full-time RV lifestyle, there you have it — we’ve averaged 14,000 miles a year since January 2016, about half of that towing our trailer and half of that driving without our trailer hitched up.
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More info about the Amp’d Throttle Booster:
- At Amazon: The Amp’d Throttle Booster for Ram, Ford & Chevy diesel trucks
- Product Info by Vehicle Make/Model
- Amp’d Throttle Booster Manual
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- RV Mountain Driving: How to drive your RV safely on mountain roads 09/14/17!!Mike is survived by his loving wife Deb and watchdog Conner of Greentop, Missouri; daughter, Allison Garrett and future son-in-law Joseph McCauley of Kansas City, Missouri, daughter Kelly and family; sons, Christopher Lindley and family, Gregory (Angela) Botham, Zackery Garrett and family; sister, Sue Travis of Spokane, Washington; brother-in-law, Dr. Danny Lewis of Battlefield, Missouri; sisters-in-law, Ruth (Dr. Ronald) Buening of Springfield, Missouri, Pam (Rick) Vestal of Jacksonville, Missouri; multiple grandchildren, nieces and nephews; godson, Josh Elgin; friends, extended family, Ray and Le Harvey, Rick and Melissa Elliot and a grand cat named Thor. Visitation is planned for Wednesday, November 20, 2019 from 5:00pm -8:00pm at the Historic Round House in Macon, Missouri.
Inurnment will be held at the Missouri Veterans Cemetery in Jacksonville, Missouri on Friday November 22, 2019 at 2:00pm.
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