View Poll Results: How do you hook up an electric trailer tongue jack?
Plug into tow vehicle / wire into disconnect
3
16.67%
Wire to break away battery
4
22.22%
Add another battery
11
61.11%
Other - please elaborate
0
0%
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Electric trailer tongue jack hook up - Poll
07-02-2017, 05:29 PM
#16
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1) You wired your electric jack into the 7 pin plug?
2) You have a separate jumper for your winch?
3) You wired your electric jack and winch into a jumper?
07-02-2017, 07:51 PM
#17
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07-02-2017, 08:48 PM
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07-02-2017, 08:51 PM
#19
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Originally Posted by mglobe
Jack is wired into the 7-pin plug.
Separate jumper for the winch.
Separate jumper for the winch.
I think if you tried to run a winch off that, you'd have a problem. At minimum blow a fuse, if not worse. Running a separate good gauge jumper is the way to do it if you don't have a dedicated battery. (Or it dies a lot -time to read the thread on solar panels)
07-03-2017, 04:36 PM
#20
Added a second battery that is charged via the electrical hookup while I tow and also has a Battery tender lead on it so I can trickle charge it if I need to or use the USB adapter and plug something in track side.
07-03-2017, 06:37 PM
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But you are also running your winch of that battery as well. Would you have that second battery if you didn't need to power other stuff?
07-03-2017, 06:45 PM
#22
In all seriousness, yeah for what a battery box and hookup cost me to put on there it was as much as a tank of gas at some tracks...
07-04-2017, 09:48 PM
#23
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This is the jack which I bought through Amazon four years ago. The only problem I had, starting this year, is one of the switches is going. Easy enough fix and probably would have been avoided had I put a garbage bag over the unit each winter.
For a little over $200 it has served me well for four years.
I have a 27 foot steel trailer hauling a car that weighs about 2900 pounds with two sets of tires, tools and fuel jugs loaded toward the front. Also lifts the back of my F350 off the ground. I'm probably overloading it at that point but it doesn't seem to mind.
07-04-2017, 10:39 PM
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Thanx
That now makes 2 of the same as well as lbs rating recommendations.
That now makes 2 of the same as well as lbs rating recommendations.