RocwooD Jockey Wheel Motorised Forward Reverse Trailer Mover Jack 12V 550W Boat Caravan Maximum 2722KG Load Motor Electric Power Heavy Duty Solid Rubber Wheel

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Moving up— The corrosion-resistant tube can take heavier noseweights and sustain greater lateral forces. At its highest point, the tube and wheel extend to 790 mm long (excluding the handle) to make it easier to reach. And, its long winding handle should help get it out of the way of some handbrakes. If you DIY fit your motor mover, try to keep the length of cabling to each side roughly the same. This may mean coiling a metre or two of cable neatly within one of the underseat storage areas. The mover units take power from the leisure battery, while a small electronic con trol unit receives the signal from the remote control and tells each motor what to do to achieve the required motion. Under no circumstances should you try to power your movers by plugging your caravan into the mains (if you have a flat battery at home on the drive, for example). Doing this can cause irreparable damage to your control unit. Why do I need a mover?

Motor mover manufactures should specify a maximum working limit for their product in terms of caravan weight and gradient. I once observed this with one guest’s caravan, which was a particularly heavy Vanmaster, it looked like the caravan was jumping! Once you stop pushing the caravan or using the motor mover with an inflatable tyre, you will notice the caravan bob up and down. In most cases, that’s going to cause real issues getting the nose weight of your caravan within its rated limit and the limit of your car.Some movers can be supplied with special tyres to help where softer ground is to be encountered but they're not always successful depending on your exact conditions. Some companies offer to demonstrate at your home or sell on a sale or return basis. Typically, you’ll have one roller for each wheel, as this allows you to turn – although twin-axle caravans, with four wheels, can be powered with just one motor mover unit on each side. A popular Powrtouch motor mover However, we do recommend cleaning and greasing moving parts before your caravan goes into long-term storage, and you should consider activating the units briefly, to minimise the chance of them seizing up, each time you visit your van. How long is the warranty?

The result is an efficient and super-sensitive mover that can even trap an egg without breaking it and one that will manoeuvre straight, even if one or more wheels is going over obstacles.When running cable through the apertures in the caravan chassis, protect the cable from rubbing with some short lengths of protective trunking/tubing. It’s simpler to use the auto-engagement systems, which slide the roller onto the tyre electrically at the push of a button. Of course, these tend to be more costly, but with one, you can park the caravan almost anywhere, as you don’t need to access the mover yourself (just don’t get a flat leisure battery, and keep spare batteries for the remote control handy). Better manoeuvrability may be obtained by fitting motors to both axles. The downside of this arrangement is the financial cost and extra weight. A twin axle caravan may have a generous payload allowance, but a full set of movers to both axles could take up as much as 80kg of this payload. The mover cables underneath the caravan are fixed neatly and securely to the underside and kept to similar lengths (to minimise power differences)