John & Angela wrote:
thehippie wrote:
John & Angela wrote:
thehippie wrote:
Johno02 wrote:
Where are yu?? Need to know so I can be somewhere else. If a need for those brakes occurs, I don't want to be anywhere close!
Brakes r fine. they work even if it has no batteries. i've tested them.
Nope. Without a battery the brakes will not engage if the trailer becomes separated from the truck power supply. I am not aware of it being legal to tow like this in any of the 81 states, two districts, 10 provinces or 3 territories of North America. Course, I could be wrong. :)
regular brakes work. what u prolly meant is the emergency brakes.
I may be misunderstanding what kind of unit this is. I am assuming it is a towable. There is no emergency brake on a towable (that I know of). If the towable separates from the tow vehicle a pin is pulled out of a device which allows a set of contacts to close which provides 12 volts from the towable battery to the regular brake magnets of the trailer and causes them to engage the regular (read normal or service) brakes. I am not aware of any other brakes on a towable. Are we talking about a towable or some kind of motorized RV.
I think the OP is calling the "Break away" brakes "emergency brakes"..
Your thinking "emergency brakes" as in a vehicle you drive..
Vehicle brakes now days are no longer called "emergency brakes" instead they are called "parking brakes" and often now days would most likely cause an accident if you tried to use them to stop you in a situation of service brake failure since the mech that ratchets would be hard to control without locking your vehicles tires..
From reading and deciphering the very cryptic posts of the OP, they tested the brakes using the brake controller..
BUT if I read it right, they have never ever hooked up or tested the BREAK AWAY SYSTEM on the trailer.
That is my concern and should be everyone's concern..
