Air Brakes - An Introduction. How it works.

This video gives an introduction and brief look at air braking systems on heavy and commercial vehicles.

You'll see from the animations that all systems have a compressor to supply the air, reservoirs to store the compressed air, controls for the driver to direct the air (foot and hand brake) and actuators and friction brakes to actually carry out the braking.

This video sticks the the fundamental basics of the Air Braking System and doesn't go as far as other system components such as s-cams, relay, quick release and trailer control valves, air dryers and filters, protection valves and other system operations. We'll go into depth with these in further videos.

For an explanation of the air brake relay, go here:    • Air Brake Relay - How it Works. Air brakin...  

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