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<P class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><CITE><SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT size=3><FONT face="times new roman,times">Johnny</FONT>,</FONT></SPAN></CITE></P> <P class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><CITE><SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: normal"></SPAN></CITE><CITE><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-STYLE: normal; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">What you describe may be a feature, but I am not sure.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They show that extra pigtail connection, but I don’t quite understand the functionality with it.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The brake component manufacturers may also make truck brake equipment, and some of that equipment might be usable for ECP and truck systems.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But I would not necessarily conclude that the same connectors could be used for both applications.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Perhaps some of the design requirements overlap so they can share common attributes.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Since air hoses part automatically upon uncoupling, it is understandable why they would want that same characteristic for the electrical couplers in order to avoiding the work rules complications of another added labor task. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Although they are adding the one task of manually coupling the electrical connectors.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN></CITE></P>
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