Hoppy replacement

[Cajunrider]

I received my new Hoppy Converter from Hopkins today. They replaced the 46255 model with a 46365. This is a short proof version. The differences in the two models are the replacement is a little larger in size and it has harnesses hard wired into both sides. The input side is very close to the 46255 but the outlet harness is about 3' long and has the same 4 wire plug that the first one had built onto the module. I guess it's their way of getting the purchaser to tuck it away in a dry place and run the harness back to the hitch. You could do the same with the original 46255 as it had an outlet harness with plugs on each end. I'll get this hooked up tommorow hopefully. It's been raining here every day since I got off Tuesday morning. http://s2.images.proboards.com/angry.gif:(" title=">:(" border="0"/>

[cactusjack]

Could you pst a picture of it, Mitch?

[AlabamaNomadRider]

What does this converter do? You guys have far more knowledge than me. Help me out.

[cactusjack]

What does this converter do? You guys have far more knowledge than me. Help me out.

Some vehicles, such as our Nomads, have separate circuits for turn signals and brake lights. Trailers that are wired with the standard 4-pin connector have combined the brake light and turn signal circuits.

So these converters convert the 5 wire vehicle to be compatible with a 4 wire trailer. The Hoppy 46255 is just one type available on the market.

[AlabamaNomadRider]

Thanks for the information CJ. I am learning.

[macmac]

The 'New' Hoppy sounds like the one I had on my 01. it had long leads I had to cut off, and a longer lead I ran back from under and ahead of the seat to the trailer hitch cross bar.

I did not plug the trailer into the hoppy converter directly.

I mounted the box on the wires that retain the ground cable from the battery.

These bikes are wired just like any foreign car, and do not cancell a brake light for turn signals as American cars do.

This is one reason the hoppy is needed on a harbor freight American Car wired trailer.

When an Americak made car has brake lights ON and the turn signal is a demand, there is 2 power feeds, which cancell out the brake light action, and leave the turnsignal flashing.

That is not the way a foreign car works at all, which has a wire for each device.

So the hoppy converts a Foreign system to the American system, but not directly.

The hoppy has a power lead you should hook up to the tail lamp to supply the hoppy with battery voltage.

It has a ground wire to complete the circuit.

It has a wire to go to the brake signal, and another to the turn signal as a signal only.

The unit senses the demands made and INDUCES current as a signal to what ever demand you made.

In the event of a trailer dead short the trailer will go out, but it will not take out the bike charging system with it. That is the best bennie about the Hoppy.

The power it takes to create a signal on demand is made in the hoppy and not really taken from the bike.

Another way to see this is thinking of the ignition coil.

The small wires are the promary wires, power in from the battery, and power out to ground eventually.

The inside promary coil is not direct wired to the inside high voltage coil winding in any way at all.

Inside the spark plug inner winding is a iron bar acting like a magnet when power is on.

When the breakers signal OPEN the "Field" collapses IN WARDS to the bar magnet, and this INDUCES what ever high voltage the coil is made for, usually between 25,000 (-) volts to 60,000 (-) volts.

And the spark is Negitive as well, jumping to 12 dcv Negitive volts.