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Hey everybody, Ryan here at etrailer. Today we're gonna be checking out and showing you how to hook up the Hopkins LED breakaway switch. Having a functioning breakaway switch is a critical component for your trailer's breaking system. Not only, you know, legally speaking, but for your safety too. So the whole point of a breakaway switch is if you we're in an unlikely disconnect, what would happen is you'd hook one end of your cable up to your vehicle that you're using to tow, and if the trailer came separated, a pin would pull out, and allow power to go through the breakaway switch to your trailer's brakes, applying the brakes, slowing everything down and getting it back under control. So it's really important that this is working, because during that stressful situation, you want to be able to rely on your trailer to do its job.
And this is a good example today of, kind of a breakaway switch that's seen better days. You know, the wires are exposed here where they're going into the switch. the tether's all chewed up, and it seems to be either not working at all, or very intermittently. So the way a breakaway switch works, I have a test light here, you'll always have power on one side of it, all right So I'm getting power there, and you shouldn't have power on the other side until the switch is pulled. So let's say if the switch is pulled, we don't have power there.
So literally if in that, you know, with this not functioning correctly, when this is pulled, then you need the brakes more than ever to slow you down. The breakaway switch isn't gonna let that power go through being that it's defective. So you know, having a simple replacement like this is definitely a great solution to get you back legal and safe again. So I went ahead and got this hooked up, which we will show you how to do in just a minute. I just wanted to have it, kind of, set up so we could see what's going on.
So one of the things that really separates this one from some of the others, there's a couple things, really. Main one being that it has that LED built into it, which is really cool. So when you go to test this, you know, before you tow your trailer, whatever, if you pull that out, and everything's going the way it should, you'll have that red light illuminate saying that it's in- it's, everything's engaged. So pretty cool there. Just a real quick way to make sure you're getting power, and this is working properly, and everything else.
I'm also a fan of the size of it too, so compared to a lot of the other ones, it's pretty small, and because of that, you know, it won't take up a lot of space on your trailer, and allow you to mount this in a lot of different positions or configurations. It's breakaway switch's gonna work with just about every trailer that has brakes out there. You know, the breakaway systems are all pretty much hooked up and wired exactly the same. So great replacement or even a slight upgrade because of that LED, and it is gonna come with a cable too. This is 48 inches, so pretty standard, you know, it's long enough if you need to mount your switch a little further back or whatever, you're probably gonna have the cable length that you need to be able to hook it up to the hitch on your truck. A lot of times when people get to replacing something like this, they're kind of just going over through the whole trailer, and, kind of, freshening everything up. And that's exactly what we did here today. We got a new seven-way plug, new junction box, you know, putting the new breakaway on, even a new replacement battery for our breakaway box, brakes, all that type of stuff. So if that's what you're doing, we carry all this stuff here at etrailer, and can hopefully make things a little bit easier on ya. But other than that, at the end of the day, pretty simple component, yet a critical one, you know, one that you want to work, and one that you need to be able to rely on. So I really like this one with that LED light, kinda adds a little bit to it there. Makes it easy to check. And because of the size, you know, you can mount this thing up just about anywhere you'd like. As far as the installation goes, pretty easy. You mount it up and you got a few wires to hook up. So if you'd like to hang around, we'll go ahead and get started on it now. To begin your install, first thing that I like to do is, kind of, prep the wires coming off. So we'll have a white wire, which will be ground. So I cr
26 авг 2024
