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KraftyPg
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Drove 50 odd ks yesterday with this trailer (1.6 tonne unloaded) rolling behind the Nav hauling 1 bull and 3 cows with a total weight of just under 2000kgs.
The 4 beasts nicknamed "the Pyscho's" because of their wild behavior bucked and jumped around in that thing the whole bloody way. Also did four 5k trips to and from the farms jam packed with sheep once we got home. The Nav did it beautifully. It got a few degrees hotter than usual (according to SCII) but it was also 31 degrees so I'm willing to accept that. Fuel economy was out the window and down the road, I was getting 17's for the majority of the trip, but that's to be expected.
Considering it's weight the trailer is pretty good behind the Nav, the only problem we found is a manufacturing fault which could be an issue for any like minded souls with trailers like this made to spec. There is a 170AH battery used to power the hydraulics and the brakes, that battery gets a feed from the socket at the towbar and providing there is 12 volts at the socket will charge. The problem with this one is that its a constant feed system, when not in use the system is still drawing power from the battery it's a minimal drain but it's one that could be fixed with a simple isolator.
Usually this trailer gets used every few weeks and because the drain is so minimal it's not an issue that has reared it's ugly head, but because we haven't used the bugger for over 4 months the constant drain left us with 2V in the battery the other day when we picked it up. Lucky for us we checked it all before we left but had we not checked it would have been nice getting down the road to find out our vehicle was trying to charge a 12v battery from 2v and we had no bloody brakes, worse still the trailer came unhitched and sailed off down the road with no means of brakes because it had no power to operate the damn things. When we get 5 mins we are putting a solar cell on the front and an isolator in the circuit to make sure the next time we want battery power we will have it.
The 4 beasts nicknamed "the Pyscho's" because of their wild behavior bucked and jumped around in that thing the whole bloody way. Also did four 5k trips to and from the farms jam packed with sheep once we got home. The Nav did it beautifully. It got a few degrees hotter than usual (according to SCII) but it was also 31 degrees so I'm willing to accept that. Fuel economy was out the window and down the road, I was getting 17's for the majority of the trip, but that's to be expected.
Considering it's weight the trailer is pretty good behind the Nav, the only problem we found is a manufacturing fault which could be an issue for any like minded souls with trailers like this made to spec. There is a 170AH battery used to power the hydraulics and the brakes, that battery gets a feed from the socket at the towbar and providing there is 12 volts at the socket will charge. The problem with this one is that its a constant feed system, when not in use the system is still drawing power from the battery it's a minimal drain but it's one that could be fixed with a simple isolator.
Usually this trailer gets used every few weeks and because the drain is so minimal it's not an issue that has reared it's ugly head, but because we haven't used the bugger for over 4 months the constant drain left us with 2V in the battery the other day when we picked it up. Lucky for us we checked it all before we left but had we not checked it would have been nice getting down the road to find out our vehicle was trying to charge a 12v battery from 2v and we had no bloody brakes, worse still the trailer came unhitched and sailed off down the road with no means of brakes because it had no power to operate the damn things. When we get 5 mins we are putting a solar cell on the front and an isolator in the circuit to make sure the next time we want battery power we will have it.
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), hence why we were pissed off with the battery issue which would have rendered the brakes useless. But thanks to 12 hours and an $89 SCA battery charger the 12V battery reading 2V was rearing to go by the time we were.
