E-Stopp electric brake

[Prslegmaker]

I just installed the E-Stopp electric E-brake in my truck. I mounted it under the metal frames below the bed of the truck facing the rear. This thing is great. My button to acuate it is on my tunnel mid section. When it activates, it pulls 600 lbs of force on the brakes. It has a safety feature if wired up, prevents it from being activated when you're driving.

[JohnK]

I agree that the E-Stopp is a nice solution. I installed one on my roadster build. JFYI - if you decide that you want to utilize the safety feature, E-Stopp recommend that you wire it to the ignition so that the parking brake can't be actuated with the ignition on. That was a bit too restrictive for me. I wanted to be able to to use the "emergency brake" feature in case of a real emergency but not have th button "hot" all the time so I wired it to the brake switch instead so that the brake pedal has to be depressed in order to set the E-Stopp.

[CaptB]

I love my eStopp.

[Prslegmaker]

Thats a great suggestion. I also set the brake fluid reservoir from FFR aside and installed a Summit dual reservoir unit on the firewall that had fittings on the back of it, so no hoses exposed. This way I have a separate reservoir for the front and the rear brakes. I'm much happier with that than a single reservoir.

[mkassab]

I agree that the E-Stopp is a nice solution. I installed one on my roadster build. JFYI - if you decide that you want to utilize the safety feature, E-Stopp recommend that you wire it to the ignition so that the parking brake can't be actuated with the ignition on. That was a bit too restrictive for me. I wanted to be able to to use the "emergency brake" feature in case of a real emergency but not have th button "hot" all the time so I wired it to the brake switch instead so that the brake pedal has to be depressed in order to set the E-Stopp.

So, I Have a question/concern with connecting to the brake light switch.... i.e., I get it the E-Stopp can only be set to "ON" when the brake pedal is depressed..... BUT, does the E-Stopp go off when your foot is off the brake pedal after it's set? If no, then that's how I'll connect my E-Stopp.

Thx Mark

[JohnK]

No, the way the safety wire works is that if it "sees" +12V it disables the E-Stopp from either setting or releasing the parking brake. So if you want to use the brake switch for this functionality you want to use one of the brake switches that has two pairs of connectors: one normally open pair and one normally closed pair. The normally open pair will be used for the brake lights (pressing the pedal completes the circuit and turns the brake lights on), and the normally closed pair will be used for the E-Stopp safety wire ( this will provide +12V when the brake pedal is not pressed thereby disabling the E-Stopp, and pressing the brake pedal will cut the 12V power allowing the E-Stopp to operate to set or release the parking brake.)

[mkassab]

Perfect.... Thanks John!

I'll add a relay with the Normally Closed wire (87A) with +12v to the blue wire. I'll then have relay terminal 85 to ground and terminal 86 connected to my brake light. So when I press the brake, the +12v to 86 will open 87A and thereby no +12v to the blue wire and allow the E-Stopp to be set or unset. Terminal 30 on the relay will have constant +12v from the battery.

That should work just fine.

Mark