DeeMaxx Hydraulic Brake Line Kit - Triple Axle - 20'

Video Transcript for DeeMaxx Trailer Brakes Manufacturer Spotlight

Hey guys, it's Jake here with etrailer. We are here with Brandon from DeeMaxx Brakes and we're gonna be talking a little bit more about what they do to make your experience with your RV a lot safer. Brandon, welcome to etrailer. Thanks for having us. Absolutely. So when they're designing these RVs, what you notice a lot of times is that they focus so much energy and time on the inside of the RV, making it as as cush as possible, as plush as possible.

And everybody always talks about, I've gotta have a big enough truck. You gotta find the right truck to be able to pull your trailer and make sure that it's heavy duty enough so that you can safely pull it. But really the biggest issue is stopping the camper. And the problem with these is they keep throwing drum brakes underneath campers like this, that weigh 20,000 pounds and you end up just roasting the brakes. That's where DeeMaxx comes into play to help you get your ride come to a safe and slow stop.

Now out on the market, when you're looking at different types of brakes, whether it be drum or disc brakes, there's not really a standard testing protocol to be able to test these brakes 'cause they make them for all kinds of different trailers and particularly in the US there's not really a standard of what they have to be tested to. What does DeeMaxx do that's different than pretty much any other company out there When Chuck Deegear was really first starting DeeMaxx components, he was getting in with the military, getting contracts with the military. And so there was a certain standard of tests we had to pass through the military and the tests are the most stringent, most difficult to pass. A lot of our competition cannot pass them with meeting these tests to meet the military standards. We know we're putting the best brakes out there for regular people like you and I today.

Tell us the reason why someone would want disc brakes over their drum brakes that they already have on their camera. Disc brakes really took over drum brakes in the automotive industry in the 70s. We're starting to see that switch today in the trailer industry. Biggest things that you'll get with disc brakes versus drum brakes is you're gonna see about 50 to 60% shorter stopping distance. You're gonna see less moving parts, which allows for less things to go wrong, less maintenance on the user end, as well as cheaper costs down the road compared to having to replace all the moving components of a drum brake.

I'm talking about drum brakes a little bit more. If you've got 'em on your trailer, you know that they can get really hot. And the reason why that is is because they've got drum brakes that are basically on both sides and it has a magnet that when you hit the brakes, it sends an electrical signal. And when you're bumping up the power into your brake controller, what it's doing is it is going to stick the magnet harder and harder to that drum. What that's doing is it's going to create heat on the inside because the drum breaks are just going to drag the whole time and that heat cannot get out because there's a plate on the backside. What do disc brakes do and specifically what do DeeMaxx brakes do to keep 'em nice and cool when you're going down the road With the rotor caliper, all the setup here of our disc brakes, you're gonna have a lot more open design that, as we we inchesre just saying, allows for better breathing, better cooling, quicker cooling and DeeMaxx specifically, we've got the holes in the hat patented design on our DeeMaxx rotors. It's gonna allow for even better breathing, faster cooling as well as anybody kind of going through the water areas, better draining of that water that's gonna prevent corrosion and rust buildup. While we're down here focusing on everything that you know, essentially our wheel's gonna attach to, we need to talk about the caliper too. What is gonna be different about your guys' caliper than other brands On our caliper, something we saw kind of against the competition as well as ourselves when we we inchesre going and doing these testings for the military was that we needed to beef up the walls of our caliper just to prevent any sort of flexing or breaking of the caliper. When we took it to the military testing, we withstood all of that. Those guys we inchesre really trying to tear those brakes up and they we inchesre not able to crack or flex or even break the caliper in half like we saw with some of the competition. Inside the caliper, we've got our pads. Going forward, those are gonna have the Kevlar brake pads. Again, that was something we did for the military. Those guys wanted something that had a little bit more grip and strength to it, but that wasn't gonna rust and corrode in marine markets. Those guys we inchesre really impressed by the Kevlar. Another thing that a lot of people don't think about when they're talking about a rig this heavy is gonna be your tires. Your tires are connected to your wheels and your wheels are connected to the hub of your axle. All of this, we're talking about the Kevlar pad stain cooler. It's gonna take them a lot more heat to get them hot. The other thing is is you're gonna have the cooler rotor itself and what that's gonna do is it's gonna keep that heat off of your wheels and tires. I know specifically with this fifth wheel, they have had blowouts on both sides of the camper and who knows whether it was from low tire pressure, which causes heat, whether it was from balding tires or it could have been heat transferred from those old brake drums and this is really gonna help with that. Yeah, absolutely, you know, that's something we're striving to do is promote that cooling. So starting with just the open rotor that's gonna cool faster to the holes in the hat design help keep the rotor cooler to like you mentioned, the Kevlar pads can take a lot more heat for those to heat up. Because we're not using that electrical signal that the drum brakes would traditionally take, we're gonna be using a hydraulic signal going back to the brakes in order to control 'em. Tell us a little bit more about this hydraulic actuator. Here at DeeMaxx we've partnered with Hydrapro making these actuators. You know, we started doing the research, started working with some teams to come up with our own actuator. Then we got presented this opportunity to work with the guys at Hydrapro to allow us to kind of continue focusing on our specialty, which is the actual disc brakes themselves. We talked to the guys at Hydrapro, you know, between the German engineering of everything in the housing unit being assembled down there in Australia. The guys at Hydrapro built a great unit. There's a couple things we ask them to tweak for us just so again, we can talk about the military testing, meet their standards. You know, we ask them to change their zinc plated two piece fitting to a brass one piece fitting, just kind of eliminate an extra leak point that we didn't need. We asked them to seal the housing unit just a little bit better to meet the marine markets. So they've done that for us. And then this Alpha X 1600 is also gonna have a bigger fluid reserve tank as well with the 28.7 fluid reserve. You've got the 1600X model in front of us here, that's gonna be the big one, but what other models do you have and what situation would it be best for Currently have three kind of models of our DeeMaxx actuator. We've got the generation Alpha, that's the 1,000 PSI that's gonna be best for the drum brakes. We've got the Alpha 1600 non X, just the regular Alpha 1600. That's gonna be great for your single axle, your tandem Maxwell trailers, you're getting 1,600 PSI and both that 1000 and the 1600 that I just talked about. Both of those have a 15.7 fluid ounce reserve. The Alpha X here is gonna have that same 1,600 PSI strength, but it's gonna have the 28.7 fluid ounce fluid reserve. And that capacity really comes into play because you have that extra axle- Right. For triple axle trailers. Yes sir. So that you, since you have more lines, you're gonna need more fluid for when you're hitting the brakes. This fluid's gonna leave this actuator, go back to the brakes and then when you let off it's gonna come back to this actuator. So you have to have more capacity to be able to get back there. Absolutely. We've talked about the brakes, we've talked about the actuator. How do you guys like to get those connected Yeah, so we've come out with our brake line kits this year using our own brake lines. The technology in these has really advanced over the years and we wanted to put that to the test. So we took our brake lines, competition brake lines, as well as hard lines out to a testing facility in Arizona. We had them independently tested just to see the results of those. And we found that not only did our brake lines beat the competition brake lines that are the flex lines, we also found that stacked up against the hard lines that we also had fast reactivation, faster release times, and just better pressure delivered overall. Because the traditional and typically more desired way in the past has always been hard lines because flex lines, just like a garden hose, have a lot of flex to them. Right. And you tend to lose a little bit of pressure because the hose is moving, whereas you guys didn't find that with your particular flex lines. Right. And I mean we, going out there, we kind of had the same expectation. We'd always heard the same thing that, you know, these hard lines are gonna have that faster activation, the faster release and better pressure delivered overall. But with the results we found, the way it was explained to us that these guys at the testing facility was, it almost has its width effect to where with the flex lines and how strong the bursting strength is on them now that with this whip effect that they described to us, we're getting the exact results we expected to see in the hard line. When installing a line kit, I would say that's probably the hardest part about the installation because you have a hard line kit and you're gonna have to be very, very careful 'cause the line is very, very small. The whole line itself is usually about 3/16 of an inch. It's very tiny. When you go to run it, you cannot kink it, you can't bend it. If you put a small kink in it, you have to get a whole new line because that is going to restrict the flow of your hydraulic fluid. And that's already not enough space for the fluid to flow through. So making it even smaller is gonna be a deficit to your install. Having those soft lines is night and day difference. If you kink it, it's just like a hose, just run a little bit bigger loop so that you're not kinking the hose anymore. Now you guys have also upgraded the ends so that it makes it a little bit easier to install. We have kind of taken a couple steps, you know, we'll start down here at the bottom from the double crimp all the way to our end piece fitting that's gonna screw into your brass fittings. Just allowing this to slide up and down. You know, there's so many different scenarios of where on the underside of your trailer you're gonna be trying to run these brake lines. Always gonna be in tight spaces. Just allowing the fitting to be able to slide down to the end allows for the use of smaller wrenches, bigger wrenches, being able to fit what you need to in these tight areas. Now tell us a little bit more about your connections. I know this seems like a very, very minute part in the equation, but it's very, very important. Yeah, absolutely. You know, there's a lot of fittings out there, a lot of different people making the fittings. We try to tackle some of the bigger issues that we see with fittings that are out there. And the most common one we see is cracking in the sidewalls. We've got double the thickness on our sidewalls. It's gonna make it next to impossible to be able to crack that. That way if you've got somebody that really wants to overtighten that fitting, then you're gonna be able to withstand any sort of cracking. Whereas with thinner sidewalls, you're gonna see that cracking. Another thing is, you'll see here in our four-way is we've got this tab that sticks out to the side made of the same brass. It's about an eighth of an inch thick, thereabouts. With a simple self-tapping drilling screw, you're gonna be able to put it right into the frame to keep those brake hoses secured and not flopping around down into the trailer. Now to kind of wrap everything up, a question we get all the time when it comes to any type of break, much less disc brakes, is what kind of warranty are people gonna get One of the the big things that we pride ourselves on is that we are, you know, the premier disc brake in the industry. And so if we're claiming to do that, why not back that up with the premier warranty, kind of the standards you see across the board is similar from one to three on decrement coatings and then maybe up to about five, six years on stainless products, which is a little bit less common, but you're seeing that one to three or maybe up to six on stainless. Across the board, all of our DeeMaxx products, regardless of the coating, is gonna be a seven year warranty. You know, we're gonna put our money where our mouth is, we've decided that with the premier break, why not have the premier warranty And that's incredible. And when you're looking into getting a set like that, people don't buy trailers to think about selling or getting rid of 'em down the road. So having a seven year warranty is really gonna give 'em that comfort because if you can get seven years or more out of a set of brakes, I'd be perfectly happy with that. You better. So that's, and I think that's really what's gonna set DeeMaxx apart is that they put the time and the effort into their product. They do the testing, they get all that stuff done so that you guys are safe when you're headed down the road. Thanks for taking the time, Brandon. Yeah, absolutely. Thank you guys. Yep.