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Ryan: How's it going Ryan here at etrailer.com. Today we're going to be taking a look at and showing you how to install the Bright Way breakaway switch kit with ICU.Now, what the breakaway switch is going to do, say in the event of a disconnect, and your trailer becomes separated from your vehicle, this pen is going to get pulled and that's actually going to apply the brakes on the trailer, bringing it to a stop. Now that is really convenient because it is required to have in most states.So, with this kit, not only can you be more safe, but illegal. Now there's going to be a couple of things that really separate this kit from many of the others. And one of them is going to be the fact that it has ICU. So what that means, let's say you're going down the road and you have a catastrophic disconnect, or let's just say if your 7-way plug is loose and just comes disconnected from the truck, what's going to happen is all of the lights on your trailer are going to light up and flash.

And that's going to let other motorists know to approach with caution.So just to give you an example, our charger here is going to simulate your vehicle. Right now our 7-way is completely plugged in so everything is okay. But if we we're to disconnect this, our alarm is going to flash on the box and all the lights on the trailer are going to be doing the same thing.Now those lights are going to keep flashing until you pull over, come up to the box here, push the alarm button, turn it off, and then you can go ahead and plug it back into your vehicle.Another thing that really separates this one from many of the others is that it's actually going to have a built-in battery charger for the battery inside of our box here. And it's also going to have some indicators that will let us know what's going on. So whenever we plug into our vehicle and send power back here, if the battery needs to be charged, the charging light is going to illuminate.

That's going to help us keep an eye on things. Or for example, say if we turn our power off, we backup to our trailer, we're just curious on what's going on, we can hit this test button and that's going to let us know where our battery life is.Now, this is going to be a great option for those single and double axle trailers because it's going to put out a minimum of 12 and a half volts. And that's going to keep you DOT compliant. For anything bigger than that, like triple axle trailers or anything that requires a little more power, there's other options available that, in my opinion, work a little bit better. And you can find those here at etrailer.com.Now, I did find a couple of things that I want to point out and for you to keep in mind whenever you're setting this up.

Now, whenever you're running the power that comes into the box here that's designed to charge the battery inside, you want to make sure to isolate that just from the power coming from our truck 7-way. There's a couple of reasons for that. There's a regulator inside of here that's designed to only work with that truck power. Now, if you we're to hook it to an alternative power source, say you have an additional battery here on the front of your trailer that you run some other accessories off of. If you hooked power to that, what would happen is this would more or less constantly charge at a rate that it's not designed to handle and damage could occur.

So it's something you really want to pay attention to when you're hooking all this up. And a quick way to tell if you did accidentally hook it up to an alternative power source is that even when we are disconnected from our truck, the charging light would always be on.And the other thing I want to mention is that you do not want to pull out your breakaway switch whenever you have your 7-way connected to the truck. Now, that can happen because some people just have everything hooked up, they want to test the breakaway switch. But what happens is the breakaway switch, whenever it's pulled, it's going to send power everywhere, and some of that power can actually back-feed up into your truck and potentially damage your brake controller inside.And we've also found that some people actually pull their breakaway switch pen, say whenever they're parking their trailer for a period of time, almost as a security measure, since when this is pulled it does lock those brakes up. Now, it is a clever thought, but whenever we pull that out for that amount of time, those