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As a crucial component to a trailer breakaway system, this breakaway switch activates the trailer brakes should the trailer become disconnected from your tow vehicle. 48" Long breakaway cable and 44" long installation wires.
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Today on this enclosed trailer, we're going to install part number HM20060, from Hopkins. This is their LED breakaway switch. Our first step is to go ahead and remove the original breakaway switch. We'll follow the wires back to the junction box underneath the trailer, then we'll go ahead and disconnect the wires. We'll pull them loose, and we'll also disconnect the wires going to the breakaway kit battery. These have two terminals, so we'll just remove them from the battery.
We'll take our blue and white wires and run them to the junction box and make our connection. Our blue wire from the breakaway switch will hook up to the brake lead in our junction box. In this case, we will connect it to the black wire. We'll strip it back and splice it in. We'll repeat this with the white wire, which we'll splice with the other white wires for ground.
Once those connections are made, we'll put the cover of our junction box back in place. Now we'll go ahead and take our black wire from the switch, and we'll run it up through our breakaway battery. Now we'll have to add a terminal to it so we can attach it to the battery. We'll also get an extra piece of white wire, and we'll use that for our ground. We're going to take the negative side of the battery and we're going to ground it to the frame.
We'll cut our extra wire the length we need. We'll strip both ends back. On one end we'll put a ring terminal, and the other a battery terminal. These connectors are not included with the kit. Now we'll mount our breakaway switch.
Now we'll go ahead and test it. We'll pull the pin, and you can see how the LED lights up when there's power being applied to the brakes. And with that, that will finish it for our test fit of part number HM20060, from Hopkins, on this enclosed trailer.
great switch!
Great design with LED to indicate charge of your auxiliary emergency brake battery.
Installs just like the original, except that the LED requires a ground wire as well as hot and brake wires. The LED is a nice feature - pulling the pin turns it on to verify that the battery is charged, and pushing the pin back into place turns it off to verify that the brakes don't stay on. The only thing I can nitpick is that I wish it had 12 gauge wires instead of 14 gauge, but 14 is perfectly acceptable for most brakes.
This switch was really easy to install and works perfectly. I love the indicator light because it lets me know it is working. It flashes every few seconds when plugged into a vehicle or shows a solid light when the switched is pulled. I was actually inspected at a border checkpoint recently and I was able to show the highway patrol officer that the switch was working due to the light. He told me he wished everyone had one like this.
Everything I have purchased from etrailer has come quickly and worked exactly as described. You can tell this company and their employees take great pride in what they do. I am a customer for life.
Great customer service and fast shipping. The break away switch was easy to install. Tested it and works great. I like the LED light that show power going to the brakes from the break away switch.
Easy install with labelled wires that are long enough to route where you want them. The LED that shows when the brakes are engaged is a great feature to test the battery. The pin cable is about 3 ft long which is plenty for most trailers. Everything works as it should.
It works well and was easy to install. The construction feels rather cheap, with a lightweight plastic pin, but it does it’s job.
Changing out from a two wire switch. Would be nice to have wired instructions with the switch order. For right now, I'm just using the two wires for the "switch" and not using LED.
Exactly what we needed to finish our trailer up!!!
Good product,good price and good, fast shipping. Again!! Lot of helpful info on website
It looked fine but I sold the unit and gave the item to buyer.
Fast shipping. Exactly what I needed.
Does what it should !
Happy to receive it so quickly. Now if you could only install it. P
Already hooked up and in use. Thanks
Exactly as described, easy to install.
It dose as described, love the led indicator for testing...
As advertised, quick shipping
Easy install
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