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Hey everybody, how's it going Today we're gonna be going over and showing you how to install the Blue Ox Patriot supplemental braking system here on a 2022 Ford F-150. So there's two main types of braking systems on the market. Portable system, which is what the Blue Ox Patriot is and we have permanent systems. Now, permanent systems are great, however they require a very lengthy installation and they also require some significant modifications to your vehicle. With a portable system, you're not gonna have that initial lengthy installation and most of the time, there's gonna be no modifications to the vehicle required whatsoever. Now with a permanent system, however, it is gonna be a little bit easier each time you need to get in and tow your vehicle, 'cause it's usually just a flick of a switch or just simply pressing a button.

With a portable system, there is a little bit of setup involved each time you need to tow. So in regards to how the Patriot actually works this is known as a proportional braking system. Now if you've towed any trailers with electric brakes you may or may not be familiar with this term. And basically what this refers to is this refers to how the brakes are being applied in our towed vehicle here. So basically it's gonna match the intensity of how we're applying the brakes in our motor home.

So let's say we're out in the highway, somebody cuts in front of us, really need to slam on our brakes and come to a fast stop. Well that's exactly what our unit is gonna do. It's gonna quickly apply the brakes inside our vehicle here allowing us to come to a smooth and safe stop. Now to the contrary to that, if we're just moseying around in town, we're just coming to a slow stop at a stop light. We obviously don't wanna send a ton of force to the brakes in our vehicle here and potentially lock them up.

Well the Patriot's not gonna do that. It's gonna sense the braking force in the motor home and it's gonna apply that same force here in the vehicle. Now one of the issues with a lot of the different braking systems on the market is they kind of leave you blind when you're inside your motor home. Some of them have little monitor lights that get mounted in the rear view mirror, but a lot of the times you don't actually have a way to look at those and they're kinda hard to see in the daytime. So being able to monitor the braking system, that way you can really tell what's going on.

We've all seen those horror stories of people dragging their towed vehicle behind their motor home with the brakes locked up and we don't wanna be one of those people. And Blue Ox has thought of that because we actually have a very handy handheld monitor that gets mounted inside the motor home that lets us know exactly what's going on with our braking system. So here's what that monitor looks like. Now this is gonna come with a power cord, the actual monitor itself, and then a little stand that we can mount on the dash of our motor home. So this monitor is gonna allow us to adjust some settings of our braking system and as we said earlier, it's also gonna let us know what's going on should the brakes be accidentally applied with the braking system in our vehicle. So we have a couple different options here. Number one, we just have the backlight setting. We can increase or decrease that depending on if we're driving in the day or night. Over here we have our force setting. So this allows us to increase or decrease the force sent to our brakes in our vehicle. And we also have a manual override button. So this is gonna physically apply the brakes in our vehicle there no matter how we're traveling. And then we obviously have our menu button here that allows you to fine tune a few more settings. So in summary, I really, really like the Blue Ox Patriot. This is probably one of the leading portable braking systems on the market and it has been for a long time. Now if you're unsure between a permanent and a portable system, me personally, I like portable just because they're so much easier to install and you don't have to worry about hacking into your vehicle like some of the permanent systems require. So me personally, I would definitely go with a portable system and if I had to choose, it would be this one. Blue Ox has a longstanding reputation of making a very quality braking system. This one here is gonna ensure that you're getting nice, smooth, and even braking inside the motor home there keeping everyone, you and your family safe. Now best part of all, this product has a two-year warranty and it is made right here in the USA. So the first step of our instal