Electric over Hydraulic Brakes
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Electric over Hydraulic Brakes
Looking for comments or personal experience, any one have them? Going to buy a 38' 24,000# gvw and thought maybe better brakes would be nice, if they are better.
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Re:Electric over Hydraulic Brakes
Mite want to look into the Carlisle hydrastar brand
http://www.carlislebrake.com/spec_hydrastar.html
Heres a review about it
http://www.catalina27.org/tech/HighTechBrakes.htm
Ive never tryed them Iam still fighting with the electric brakes on my trailers...tho Ive offen thought of Electric over Disk Hydraulic Brakes on a gooseneck with 7000 lbs quad axels 53 ft long.... ;D
http://www.carlislebrake.com/spec_hydrastar.html
Heres a review about it
http://www.catalina27.org/tech/HighTechBrakes.htm
Ive never tryed them Iam still fighting with the electric brakes on my trailers...tho Ive offen thought of Electric over Disk Hydraulic Brakes on a gooseneck with 7000 lbs quad axels 53 ft long.... ;D
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I knew somebody that had a trailer that had the electric over hydraulic set-up and he said they were great. I think his operated off of his electric brake controller in the truck like those of us who have electric trailer brakes. His controller sent a signal to the trailer and then the trailer put on it's hydraulic brakes. He said it was much smoother operating than regular all electric :
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Re:Electric over Hydraulic Brakes
Heres another Electric over Hydraulic Brake controller<br><br>http://www.bludotinc.com/Products/elecdraulic.htm
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Re:Electric over Hydraulic Brakes
YES, Electric over hydrolic brakes are great. VERY, VERY smooth. Last year we built a 36' Dual Tandem livestodk trailer. The man wanted hydrolic brakes on it. Watch out for the fuses. They loved to blow. We needed a 30 amp fuse to keep it from blowing. If they blow FULL lock down on the brakes. Other than that they are great. If you have an questions feel free to PM. Kyle
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Re:Electric over Hydraulic Brakes
Another option is vacuum over hydraulic. I used to run dump truck a bunch of years ago and the flat deck trailer we used to hump a back hoe around was set up with vacuum over hydraulic. I thought it was a great system, diesels run vacuum pumps so it's there at all times as long as the truck is running.<br><br>just a suggestion.
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Re:Electric over Hydraulic Brakes
I have thought of that but it seems to be a more expensive system. Plus the new 2003's have no vacuum. In fact a vac pump comes with the Jacobs brake now for the 2003's, don't know if it would have enough volume to run brakes or not?
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The 3rd Gens have vacuum pumps from the factory but the Jacobs includes a larger capacity one due to the increased use of vac for E-brake. If I were to use vac/hyd brakes on a trailer I would want the larger pump anyway.
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