Problem with electric brake trailer

Yes,no problem. Google redneck trailer parts & call them. They can tell you exactly what you need to do it.

 

Personally I think the other way. I have chased way more problems with electric over hydraulic. I have seen guys speed thousands on changing over only to find worse brakes and more brake problems then they had before.

And the big, big, problem with hydraulic is the trailers often sit, and no one changes the brake fluid ever. Brake fluid by nature absorbs water and corrodes all the hydraulic components out. Most of the Japanese auto manufactures, and all the motorcycle manufactures recomend changing out brake fluid every two years to prevent problems with this. Do you think people are going to do that with any trailer? Fat chance. Often sitting for months or years at a time hydraulic trailer brakes are always a problem.

Electric brakes are simple. Adjust them up; check them for voltage. Thats it, until the shoes wear out. You don't even need a Ohm meter. A test light will find the problems all the time. Electro magnets do go out from time to time, but usually only the cheap ### chinese ones on the copy axles. I don't know if I ever changed out a good american made one, but even the chinese failures are rare. Sometimes simpler is better.

 

Honestly we have a giant fleet of trailered rental equipment and it gets abused often. We rarely see issues with the brakes themselves. 95% of the time its in the wiring (in our case anyways).

 

Their are lots of low quality chinese components and parts in circulation now. Who knows where Lippert bought their components like magnets? Overall for years that same basic design for magnets and electric drum brakes have been used. Magnets failing were rare, but now days you see more of them. But by far most of the electric brake problems are wiring.

I just about guarantee just about all the components to do the hydro-electric swap are of chinese origin and are less reliable then the chinese magnets. I have not pulled a hydro-electric brake system that impressed me was worth the price but I have seen a few that were not worth working on. It is a expensive swap with little to no benefit and a very real downside, even if you ignore price.

Magnets are cheap, rarely fail, and a little time spent on doing the wiring right pails in comparison to the work involved in the hydro-electric swap and the maintenance that follows the swap.