Fiber optic dinghy monotoring

willald wrote:

Bumpyroad wrote:

willald wrote:


..Does your brake buddy wireless transmitter connect to your toad vehicle's brake switch and truly tell when brakes are being applied? Or, is it connected to the Brake buddy unit, and telling you when the Brake Buddy THINKS it is applying the brakes?

it tells me when the brake buddy activates and knows the brakes are applied. this is confirmed by the pull on the motorhome when applied.
bumpy

..Unless/until one day the arm on the brake buddy breaks or becomes detached from the brake pedal, and it pushes away, thinking its applying brakes and indicates such to you via that transmitter when in reality brakes are not being applied.

Or, until one day the Brake buddy's electronics (or some other part of it) foul up somehow, and cause it to signal to you that it is applying brakes when they really are not.

You're basically relying/trusting 100% on your supplemental brake system to know when brakes are being applied and when they're not. When the system (brake buddy or whatever) is functioning properly, this works OK. But when it is not, the indicator could lie to you. Do a search or two on here, and you'll find some cases where this has happened.

That is why many of us prefer an indicator wired from the toad vehicle's brake pedal switch. That way you know with 100% certainty what is going on (or not going on) with the toad's brakes. You'll know if your brake system is working right, and is not braking enough or braking too much. I think thats what the original poster is looking for as well.

Will