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5085315 Pro Series Breakaway Kit with Premium Integrated Charger
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Jeff: Hello everybody. This is Jeff at etrailer.com. Today we're going to take a look at this Reese Towpower Push to-Test Breakaway Kit with the Integrated Charger. Now, this breakaway system will activate your trailer's electric brakes if your trailer happens to disconnect from your tow vehicle. It does include this 12-volt rechargeable battery in the box with the charger and the breakaway switch with the cable.Now, this is a push-to-test battery feature on the top here, which will offer fast and easy battery testing. This test button right here, the blue button, it says push to test, this will indicate with LED lights if it will display the battery status.
So right now if I push it, I don't know if you can see it, but I push it and you can see the green button over here is lighting up. The green means that it's charged, so it's 12.8 volts or higher right now. If I pushed it and it showed yellow, that would mean it would be charging. And then if I pushed and it showed red, that would mean low battery and it needs to be charged.It does have a built-in charger which will automatically refuel the battery. It has a float mode which will maintain voltage while you tow without overcharging to prolong battery life and then a smart adjust feature which automatically switched to the float mode when the battery is fully charged.
This is a top loading case. You can see right here, you just push in on it. I'm going to pop it open for you. There you go. If you push it in, it'll pop open.
There's your battery and your connections all made and then when you close it, it'll snap shut. If you notice, it's a nice polymer construction, protects the battery from moisture and debris.Now the mounting hardware to install this is not included and this is a lockable lid. You can see the holes line up here. You could actually put a padlock through there to prevent theft. The padlock we do sell separately.
Also on top of the lid, they do have the wiring code. It shows you that to white wires . There's three wires that need to be connected. The white wire goes to ground, the black is to the battery for power and the blue goes to one of the wires on the breakaway switch. Now this breakaway switch this will install on your trailer's frame. Drilling is required to install this.You can see this cable here. This will attach to your tow vehicle and what happens in a runaway situation where it comes disconnected, it would pull this pin out which would activate the brakes to stop the trailer. There are two black wires on this. One goes to the blue wire on the battery box and the one connects to the electric brake trailer feed. The wire feed length on these is about 7-1/2" and the cable length, if I undid that, it would go out to about 4' long. Now, this is DOT, Department of Transportation compliant application. Application - this is for single, tandem and triple axle trailers with electric brakes. The battery capacity in this is 5 amp hours.Give you a few dimensions on this, on the battery box itself. Overall length, top is about the widest. It's 5-1/2". Width on it, 4-1/4" wide and the overall height is about 4-1/4" tall. The mounting holes on the back here that should mount to your trailer, distance between those center-to-center horizontally is about 5-5/8". And vertically center-to-center is right about 1". It does come with a nice set of detailed instructions that'll describe how everything hooks up and how it operates. But that should do it for the review on the Reese Towpower Push-to-Test Breakaway Kit with the Integrated Charger.
Average Customer Rating: 4.8 out of 5 stars (116 Customer Reviews)
This break away kit is nice and easy to install. The indicator buttons on the top, are a really nice feature. It works good. 573084
Glad I choose this model, works great 418772
I have been having trouble with my trailer brakes and noticed that the existing battery was no longer bolted to the trailer, but was loose in the storage compartment. Since it was several years old I decided to replace the whole system. The new one has a charging system , which will keep the battery charged. I will have to do some rewiring,but that will not be a problem. Thanks . This looks like a good system and i can't wait till I get some good weather to work on the trailer. 592301
Nice product but poor packaging by trailer. Product arrived damaged and since I needed to use my trailer the next day, I repaired it myself. Etrailer should have place the thin product box inside a better shipping box. They may have saved cost on their end but now have an unhappy customer. 195255
I appreciate working with etrailer.com and the excellent customer support. Highly recommend! 913004
908678
Battery was fully charged when received, but put it on a float charger for a day just to be sure. Nice kit, easy to check the charge using the button and LED indicator on the top of the battery box. Install was easy (deciphering the rats nest of wiring in my cargo trailer was another story - thanks Pace America!). Should work well going forward and will be easy to check the charge before trips, like the fact that the controller will handle charging the battery while underway on the road as well. 904812
Excellent!!!! Good prices, quality products and outstanding customer service. I placed my order on a Sunday, and got an email that evening that one of my items was on back order. They suggested an alternate item in stock in case I didn’t want to wait a week for the back ordered item. Customer service doesn’t get any better than that. Thank you! 903685
Great products 902488
Great service products that I purchased are good quality and installation was easy 795588
Easy install works great! fair priced products! 789545
We use this wire for multiple applications and works great at a very low cost. 770104
Easy peasy. Battery has lasted a year with no sign of weakening, even standing 90% of the time. 759264
Being in business for 45 years it is great to find a company that has the knowledge of the products and excellent service. Great product lines. A+ 749797
replaced broken one on trailer 739830
Which the unit would have included spli ces 653785
The breakaway kit is exceptionally well made and priced far below most other suppliers of trailer parts. 650288
All parts ordered were great and work perfect. Thanks. 647084
Appears to be of good quality. All works as it should so far. 637383
Bought one of these. Hooking it up, I thought I had fried the circuitry. Ordered a replacement. Took the old damaged assembly apart to use as parts. Discovered that a terminal had came off the battery. Unit was OK. Now have a spare! 637224
Good replacement, does the job. Good pr ice. 633187
great replacement 619474
Great product 613660
Its brand new and it works as it should for now. The life of the battery will tell in some time. 520349
Wow, can't believe it has already been a year...This item replaced a VERY old system that had served me well...Easily installed...Luckily, have not had to try it out, but with the handy battery condition check button, I know the battery is charged and ready to work if needed. 519833
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