Sunday, Apr 20, 2014 at 17:35
peter the flat trailer plug is a horrible thing...they are just trash
I work will all sorts of plugs for a living and I know of no high reliability plug of any type that has a split male pin...this is the fundamental problem.
All the good plugs rely on the female portion for their contact pressure.
The split male pin is neither the shape, form or material to retain sufficient spring tension to maitain good contact pressure.
If you prise those crappy pins open on time too meny they slpit then are completly useless.
you should not have to adjust the contacts on a plug every trip.....I have a 30 year old genuine utilux on one of my trailers and the only attention it has ever had to hose the mud out of the contacts and a squirt of contact spray every coupl of years.
everything about the flat trailer plug from its thermoplastic housing to is piddly little screws is just horrible.
I have had to work with these things and so many of them the screws are stripped straight out of the box..and that is the "good brand"
I don't know why they are so popular in the south because QLD is very much a 7 pin utilux market
The ony reason we use em up here is to mate with somthing that is already there......or because a southern wants one.
sorry met they are just trash.
cheers
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