Buddy Brake system ?
Hi there- Is the break buddy design to apply the toad vehicle breaks every time you apply your breaks on the MH? or this is only a break away system? Thank you all>>>
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RayChez wrote:hershey wrote:
Its an adjustable feature. You can adjust it to applying brakes nearly every braking instance on your MH or you can adjust it as I do: It only applies on panic stops. Or anything in between.
I really only depend on mine as a stopping device in case of its breaking away from the MH.
Not sure what kind of brake buddy you have, but the brake buddy I have the only adjustment it has is for pressure applied on the brake pedal adjustment to how much pressure you want to apply according to the weight of the vehicle it is installed on. If it is a light toad naturally you do not need much pressure, but if you are towing a heavy toad, you have to increase the air pressure on the brake buddy. That is the only adjustment my brake buddy has.
My Brake Buddy is 9 years old, 8 years of fulltiming.
It has a series of lights on the top from 1 to 7 and labeled SENSITIVITY. Thats where my adjustment comes from. I keep it on 1. 7 would allow the Brake Buddy to engage on nearly every brake application.
The PRESSURE adjustment you elude to is indeed the amount of violence applied to the brake peddle. (Perhaps a bad choice of words).
I do keep that at 50 lbs only for the break away function. The brakes do not have any vacuum assist with the engine off so thats why I use that high a number.
BTW: Does any others have a Brake Buddy without that sensitivity adjustment????? Just curious.
