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  1. Emergency valve in the BlueDot system which puts full air pressure (from the storage tank) into air over hydraulic actuator in case bad things happen to the hoses.
  2. Ah, my young padawan, wisdom have you acquired, the force of air is with you in abundance. No stinkn' brake controller, no stinkn' brake away switch.
  3. Which switch on that Kenworth puts the MARKER light on, asks a Volvo guy and where is the Thank You switch? For those who have no patience reading a 16 page manual (or know better) there is a single sheet insert with quick tips and admonishments. Third item on the list "discourages" the use of the Auxiliary Circuit, diode notwithstanding. Yes, some wits have done it trying to drag the trailer with full brakes on.
  4. The content of "mini kit", 20 foot harness, 8 foot harness and two resettable breakers.
  5. Brake/turn sizeable marker is the plan for the mid marker. I remember from my pulling days of those turds who would "park" themselves mid between my fifth and the truck to "admire" my setup and if I needed to move over they couldn't see any of the turn signals.
  6. Will do, I'll have him bring the truck back for the mods. I'll make it a start of the next phase and have the lights plugged rather than hardwired. This way they'll be ready for the bed install.
  7. Will do, I'll have him bring the truck back for the mods. I'll make it a start of the next phase and have the lights plugged rather than hardwired. This way they'll be ready for the bed install.
  8. Bravo !!!!!!!!!!!!! I love it !!!!!!!!!! Right on point. The hint # 3 was total misplacement and misunderstanding of the ICC MARKER black wire. I'm guessing whoever "created" this wiring was very experienced wiring pickups and RV trailers. "I've done this many times before, don't need no stinkn' manual". In the world of pickups and RVs THE BLACK WIRE IS ALWAYS +12VDC! "I need to power the Brake Controller from the Jackalopee". Another manual "no read", where it says, "there is no power in the Jackalopee to run things". "The Brake Controller has to be powered and grounded from the semi batteries". The genius saw multiple opportunities. Aha, black wire, lets go to the +12V DIRECT, this will go to the trailer batteries and charge those, lets splice it and also go to the Brake Controller and power it. Also, there is a free ground above it for the controller, boy, my lucky day. Unfortunately, in the semis the black wire is trailer running lights, there is nothing on it unless you turn the lights on. I don't think the running lights circuit would be happy charging batteries, but no damage could be done, the instant key is turned on, the +12V DIRECT relay side is disabled. The manual says so. Incidentally, the troubleshooting of this mess was pre-planned few days in advance, The truck owner made an arrangement with DirecLink to stop by and have Alan look/fix it. Having somewhat knowledge of what was in there, I suggested that Alan junk the "creation" and replace it with proper harnesses which I shipped to them "for the occasion". This is turning into a mini-product, just the harnesses. I have used and shipped four others already for similar situations. Jackalopee has been installed, it's a mess and we are tearing our hair out figuring it out. JUNK IT and re-harness it. One of those went to an owner who just bought the Jackalopee without the kit. The guy is really good, can find and buy anything he needs, installed the Jackalopee and ran the cables. Then he saw in the manual the pre-made harnesses. Even though he could do it, he just had to have a set. I got couple of messages, "are they gone", "did you ship them". I'll make some pictures of just the harness set and post it later.
  9. Saturday evening, final touches primarily wiring and air connection done, customer hitching up the daily driver he used to come down (from Orlando) and drive off his "possession". Prior to this I conducted about 5 minutes session how to appreciate an ET and what it does and countermand some bad advice from the "dumpers" crowd which managed to make its way to the YouTube channel as a new ET hitching up gospel. I video taped it on my iPhone and intend to publish my own gospel. The reason for the Saturday night rush to finish was the plans he had for Sunday morning. Here's the picture that arrived to my phone Sunday morning. He intends to have some fun throughout the summer in this form factor and bring the truck back around August for the bed design and build. It will be similar to this one. We've already discussed the changes to the design to add few custom "goodies".
  10. Hint # 1 Hint # 2 Obviously hint # 2 show the proper wiring of the truck side, however I suspect that if one had not seen hint # 2 (in the manual) and was only familiar with what's in hint # 1 (some of it) one might think they did a great job and things should work. Come on guys! Put those grey matter cell to work! There is a hint # 3, but I'm going to hold off, what do you think hint # 3 is?
  11. OK, here's a test for your successful Jackalopee installers. What's wrong with this installation. Good story goes with it. The owner bought the truck with the Jackalopee already installed and couldn't get the DirecLink brake controller working. He was driving by Tuson RV Brakes and Alan Hoogenakker (DirecLink Technical support) offered to troubleshoot it for him. They sent me those pictures. I emailed them the appropriate pages from the installation manual. A hint. Although I shouldn't think about my customers in those terms, after all they bought the Jackalopee, this idiot never read the manual and he went with his "assumptions". What were those "assumptions"?
  12. Aah, said the (not Apple savvy) ignorant man to himself, the .heic extension, Apple's gift to society since version 11. Pages and pages of helpful hints for the Windows unwashed.
  13. Let's see if it works. His first hitch up and trip. Hmm, picture downloaded from my iphone had this funky .heic extension, I re-saved it as .jpeg. But the poster is still bitching about something not being secure.
  14. I have photobucket, used them long time ago, have to find the "how to" on their site. The link on this site comes up with imgur when you go with it, seems like they use their service, don't know why it decided to puke.
  15. It's archaic, but I trained myself how to use it. LIKE DOS. Is it something that needs the adman to look into?
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