SWITCH TO ELECTRIC BRAKES

TRUENORTH60 wrote:
I have a car dolley.
The car dolley has surge breaks.
Surge breaks are a curse sent to enrage us to the point that certain four letter words are used.

I would dearly love to change out the damnable surge brakes for electric brakes. Installing new electric back plates with shoes does not seem to be any more complicated than graduate level nuclear physics. But I do have a couple of questions.

1 - How heavy does the wiring have to be to support the solenoids?

2 - Can the electric brakes be connected to the existing brake light circuit or does it require a separate dedicated circuit of it's own?

3 - Any ideas about what to do with the now abandoned surge brake actuator?

Thanks in advance.

1. I prefer nothing smaller then #12 wire. Too many trailers, especially two/three axles, have too light of wire.

2. NO! a good quality brake controller is needed. NO time based controller.

3. Sell it? Paper weight? Put it on a shelf?