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Swift Taillights ST01 portable wireless remote-controlled trailer tail light system
Swift Tail Lights By Suntronics Technologies, LLC With Swift Tail Lightsyou'll never have to worry about having no tail lights on your trailer-- again!
Don’t Be Caught With Your Lights Out!
Anyone who has ever hauled horses, knows the very real fear that comes over you, when you hear the words “Your lights are out” You have your precious horses inside that trailer who are depending on you to get them where they need to be- Safely! If you don’t have lights to let cars behind you know you are braking or turning, you are taking a real chance with disaster… but what can you do to prevent such a situation?
Swift Taillights Are the Answer!
Swift Tail Lights: Versatility and Safety Combined
Imagine you're heading to a horse show, trail ride, or simply transporting your beloved horse. The Swift Taillights ST04 ensures you can navigate the road with confidence, providing clear, bright signals to other drivers.
Key Features:
• Full driving signals both for the front lights and tail lights: Signal your intentions clearly with bright, LED lights.
• Handheld Remote Control: Seamlessly control signals for forward, stop, left turn, right turn, reverse, and emergency modes.
• Quick and Easy Installation: Magnetic base (scratch proof rubber cover on it) with a 50lb attaching strength and a safety strap for secure mounting
• Rechargeable Battery: Up to 6 hours of runtime ensures longevity for longer trips.
• Weather Resistant and Rugged Construction: Built to withstand various weather conditions, ensuring durability.
What Are The Benefits for Horse Owners?
• Enhanced Safety: Clear signals prevent accidents, ensuring the safety of your horse and other road users.
• Temporary Use: Ideal for times when your existing lights are faulty or for added visibility in emergency situations.
• Multipurpose Application: Perfect for horse trailers, farm trailers, RVs, and more.
Swift Taillights ST01: Just Need The TAIL LIGHTS?
If you just need the TAIL LIGHTS— the ST01 is the answer! When it comes to transporting your horse, the Swift Taillights ST01 offers unmatched reliability and convenience. Whether you're on a short trip or a cross-country adventure, these lights ensure your trailer remains visible and compliant with road safety standards.
Key Features:
• Portable Wireless Remote Control: Instantly provide taillights for any vehicle or trailer being towed.
• Digital Communication: Reliable signal transmission between the controller and taillights without interference.
• LED Long-Lasting Bright Lights: Ensures visibility during both day and night.
• Daytime and Evening Light Level Sensor: Automatically adjusts to ambient light for optimal visibility.
• Weather Resistant and Rugged Construction: Withstands the rigors of travel and varying weather conditions.
• Rechargeable Battery: Provides up to 6 hours of uninterrupted light.
Swift Taillights ST04: Need The Front Light and TAIL LIGHTS?
If you need the Front LIGHTS and the TAIL LIGHTS— the ST04 is the answer! When it comes to transporting your horse, the Swift Taillights ST04offers unmatched reliability and convenience. Whether on a short trip or a cross-country adventure, these lights ensure your trailer remains visible and compliant with road safety standards.
Key Features:
• Full driving signals both for the front lights and tail lights: Signal your intentions clearly with bright, LED lights
• Quick and Easy Installation: Magnetic base (scratch-proof rubber cover on it)
• Portable Wireless Remote Control: Instantly provide taillights for any vehicle or trailer being towed.
• Digital Communication: Reliable signal transmission between the controller and taillights without interference.
• LED Long-Lasting Bright Lights: Ensures visibility during both day and night.
• Daytime and Evening Light Level Sensor: Automatically adjusts to ambient light for optimal visibility.
• Weather Resistant and Rugged Construction: Withstands the rigours of travel and varying weather conditions.
• Rechargeable Battery: Provides up to 6 hours of uninterrupted light.
What Benefits Do Swift Tail Lights Offer Horse Owners?
• Instant Setup: Easily attach to your trailer with the powerful magnetic mount and safety strap.
• Increased Visibility: Enhance the safety of your horse trailer, reducing the risk of accidents.
• Versatile Use: Perfect for various trailers, including horse trailers, farm trailers, and boat trailers.
• Added Security When Hauling Your Horses is the Best benefit of all!
Why Choose Suntronic's Swift Taillights?
Peace of Mind: Knowing your trailer is equipped with reliable, bright lights ensures the safety of your horses and other drivers.
Ease of Use: Both the ST04 and ST01 models are designed for quick installation and operation, making your life easier.
Durability: Built to last, these taillights are weather-resistant and rugged, perfect for all your transportation needs.
Affordability: For about the cost of a typical good “saddle pad”, you can have the added protection and security of ensuring you Always have lights on your trailer!
Enhance Your Trailer's Safety— and Order Swift Tail Lights- Today!
Choose Suntronics Swift Taillights ST04 or ST01 for a safer, more visible, and worry-free journey with your horses. Whether it's for emergency use or regular trips, these taillights are the perfect companions for your horse trailer and help to ensure you, and your horses, arrive safely— wherever life takes you! Order now and experience the Suntronics difference! Swift Taillights ST01 portable wireless remote-controlled trailer tail light system
What exactly are Swift Taillights?
Swift Taillights are a portable, wireless, remote-controlled tail light system that delivers instant, legal-looking signaling to any trailer or towed vehicle without a single wire run to your tow vehicle. The flagship ST01 set pairs a magnetic-mount LED light head packing 24 bright red LEDs and 18 white LEDs with a pocket-sized handheld controller. One button cycles through stop, running/forward, left and right turn, reverse, emergency flashers, and a worklight/flashlight mode. Because the lights are self-contained and rechargeable, you can stick them on, sync them, and be road-ready in under a minute.
Swift Taillights ST01 magnetic-mount LED light head with red and white LEDs
Who makes Swift Taillights?
Swift Taillights are designed and backed by Suntronics Technologies Inc. (dba Swift Hitch), a North Carolina company in business since 2006 and based at 2376 Hickswood Rd, Suite 103, High Point, NC 27265. Suntronics is best known as the inventor of the original Swift Hitch portable wireless backup camera, whose SH02 model won the Natda (North American Trailer Dealers Association) New Product of the Year award in 2012. Quality control and testing are performed in NC, USA, and the brand has sold to thousands of customers across farming, marine, RV, and inspection industries. You can reach the company at or.
Swift Taillights ST01 handheld wireless controller with one-button signaling
How does the wireless signaling actually work?
The controller and light head talk to each other over a digital radio link operating in the 428MHz to 438MHz band (centered at 433MHz), a digital protocol Suntronics uses specifically to avoid the interference that plagues cheaper analog units. The ST01 transmits reliably up to roughly 100 feet (the spec sheet rates the radio at 200m unobstructed), so the signal reaches the back of even a long gooseneck horse trailer. The light head carries its own rechargeable 3.7V 1800mAh lithium battery, and the controller runs a 3.7V 1200mAh cell; both include low-battery indicators so you are never caught guessing. A built-in daytime/evening light sensor adjusts the output for the conditions.
Swift Taillights ST01 wireless trailer tail light kit components
Built to survive the road and the barnyard.
Each light head mounts with a magnet rated to a 50-pound holding strength, backed by a rubber base that protects your trailer's paint, plus a safety securing strap for highway peace of mind. The housing carries an IP68 protection rating, the highest common dust-and-water sealing tier, and is built to operate from -20°C to 50°C (-4°F to 122°F). At about 320g per light and 145mm in diameter, the heads are compact enough to toss in a tack-room drawer yet rugged enough for daily farm use. A full charge delivers up to 6 hours of taillight runtime (4-10 hours depending on the mode in use), and the controller runs up to 12 hours per charge.
Who needs a set on the trailer?
Swift Taillights solve the exact nightmare every hauler dreads: pulling over and discovering your trailer lights are dead with horses inside. Suntronics built them for horse trailers, farm and hay wagons, RVs and campers, boat trailers with water-damaged wiring, utility trailers, construction equipment, and even classic cars. They are intended as a temporary, get-you-home-safely solution when factory wiring corrodes, a connector fails, or you are moving an untagged implement across the property. For anyone who hauls precious cargo, they are cheap insurance against a roadside emergency.
What does it cost and how do you get one?
The complete ST01 system sells for $239.00 (regularly $259.00) and ships free to the US mainland on orders over $100 directly from swifthitch.com. Need front directional lights too? The four-light ST04 set adds two amber front directional lights to the two rear taillights for full classic-car and equipment signaling at $488.00. Replacement parts are stocked individually, including the ST01-T light head ($90.00), ST01-C controller ($80.00), spare lithium batteries ($12.00), and a 110V wall charger adapter (PT03), so a single dropped or lost piece never forces you to rebuy the whole kit.
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ⓘThe Solution Section (FAQ)
How is Swift Tail Lights different from Swift Hitch (the canonical sibling)?
Per Suntronics Technologies, LLC: distinct products in the Swift portfolio.
Swift Hitch (canonical) — wireless camera for trailer-hitching alignment
Swift Tail Lights (this product) — wireless tail-light backup for trailer signaling
Same Suntronics vendor; both products solve trailer-related problems but distinct functions (alignment vs lighting).
What problem does Swift Tail Lights solve?
Per Suntronics: "Anyone who has ever hauled horses, knows the very real fear that comes over you, when you hear the words: 'Your lights are out.' You have your precious horses inside that trailer who are depending on you to get them where they need to be — SAFELY."
Without working signals to let cars behind you know you're braking or turning, you're taking a real chance with disaster.
What's the Swift Tail Lights ST04 (full driving signals)?
Per Suntronics, key features:
Full driving signals for both front lights and tail lights
Bright LED lights signal intentions clearly
Handheld Remote Control for forward, stop, left turn, right turn, reverse, emergency modes
Quick and Easy Installation — magnetic base (scratch-proof rubber cover) with 50 lb attaching strength + safety strap
Rechargeable Battery — up to 6 hours runtime
Weather-resistant + rugged construction
What's the ST01 (tail lights only)?
Per Suntronics: if you just need the tail lights, the ST01 is the answer. For shorter trips or when only tail-light backup is needed, the ST01 is the simpler option.
What are the multi-purpose applications?
Per Suntronics: ideal for:
Horse trailers
Farm trailers
RVs
And more
Useful both for temporary use when existing lights are faulty + for added visibility in emergency situations.
How do I order?
Per Suntronics Technologies, LLC: Phone 617-600-8282, email [email protected], website https://swifthitch.com/. Pricing as quoted is subject to change.
What are Swift Taillights and what problem do they solve?
Swift Taillights are a portable, wireless, remote-controlled tail light system that gives any trailer or towed vehicle instant signaling without running wires to your tow vehicle. They solve the dreaded roadside scenario of discovering your trailer lights are out with horses or cargo inside. You simply stick the magnetic light heads on, sync them to the handheld controller, and you have working stop, turn, reverse, and emergency lights in under a minute.
Who manufactures Swift Taillights?
They are made and backed by Suntronics Technologies Inc., doing business as Swift Hitch, a company in operation since 2006. Suntronics is based at 2376 Hickswood Rd, Suite 103, High Point, NC 27265, and performs its quality control and testing in NC, USA. The company is best known as the inventor of the original Swift Hitch portable wireless backup camera.
How much do Swift Taillights cost?
The complete ST01 two-light system sells for $239.00, down from a regular price of $259.00. The four-light ST04 system, which adds two amber front directional lights to the two rear taillights, is priced at $488.00. Orders over $100 ship free to the US mainland directly from swifthitch.com.
How long does the battery last on a charge?
The ST01 taillight head delivers up to 6 hours of runtime per charge, with actual life ranging from 4 to 10 hours depending on which signaling mode you are using. The handheld controller runs up to 12 hours per charge. Both units include low-battery indicators so you are never caught off guard, and the taillight charges in up to 6 hours while the controller charges in about 4 hours.
How do Swift Taillights attach to my trailer?
Each light head mounts magnetically with a 50-pound holding strength, and a rubber base protects your trailer's paint from scratches. For highway use, a safety securing strap is included as a backup so the light cannot vibrate loose. No drilling, brackets, or permanent installation is required.
Are Swift Taillights waterproof and weather-resistant?
Yes. The light housings carry an IP68 protection rating, the highest common tier for dust and water sealing, making them suitable for rain, mud, and harsh outdoor conditions. They are rated to operate from -20°C to 50°C (-4°F to 122°F) and can be stored from -40°C to 85°C. This makes them dependable for year-round farm, ranch, and marine use.
Will the wireless signal reach the back of a long horse trailer?
Yes. The ST01 controller and light head communicate over a digital radio link in the 428MHz to 438MHz band, with reliable transmission up to roughly 100 feet (the radio is rated at 200m unobstructed). That range easily covers the length of a long gooseneck or stock trailer, so the lights respond instantly to your controller from the cab.
Why does Swift use digital communication instead of analog?
Suntronics uses a digital 433MHz protocol specifically to prevent the radio interference that can cause cheaper analog wireless lights to flicker or respond to the wrong signals. The digital link keeps the controller and lights paired reliably even around other wireless devices. This is the same interference-avoidance philosophy Suntronics applies across its Swift Hitch camera products.
What signaling modes do Swift Taillights support?
A single button on the handheld controller cycles through all the signals you need: stop (brake), forward/running lights, left turn, right turn, reverse, and emergency flashers. There is also a white flashlight/worklight mode for hitching in the dark or roadside repairs. The ST01 light head uses 24 red LEDs and 18 white LEDs to produce these signals.
What kinds of trailers and vehicles are Swift Taillights designed for?
Suntronics designed them for horse trailers, farm and hay wagons, RVs and campers, boat trailers with water-damaged wiring, utility trailers, and construction equipment. The four-light ST04 model also serves classic cars and any vehicle with damaged or missing factory wiring. They are ideal anywhere factory wiring has corroded, a connector has failed, or you need temporary lighting to move equipment safely.
What is the difference between the ST01 and the ST04?
The ST01 is a two-light system providing rear taillights only, priced at $239.00. The ST04 is a four-light system that adds two amber front directional lights to the two rear taillights, giving complete front-and-rear signaling for classic cars, large trailers, and equipment, priced at $488.00. The ST04 communicates at 433MHz with about a 150-foot effective range and the same IP68 weather sealing and 50-pound magnetic mounts.
Are Swift Taillights legal or meant for temporary use?
Swift describes the system as intended for temporary use, meaning it is a get-you-home-safely solution for when your factory trailer wiring fails or is being repaired, rather than a permanent replacement. They are commonly used to safely complete a haul, move equipment around a property, or get a trailer to a shop when its lights have died. Always confirm local towing regulations for your specific situation.
Can I buy replacement parts if I lose or damage a piece?
Yes, Suntronics stocks every component individually so a single lost or dropped piece never forces you to rebuy the whole kit. Available parts include the ST01-T light head ($90.00), the ST01-C controller ($80.00), spare Type I and Type II lithium batteries ($12.00 each), the ST01-BC back cover ($15.00), and charging accessories like the PT01 splitter cable and PT03 110V wall charger adapter.
How are Swift Taillights powered and recharged?
Each unit runs on a rechargeable lithium battery; the taillight uses a 3.7V 1800mAh cell and the controller a 3.7V 1200mAh cell. They recharge via included charging accessories, and Suntronics offers a PT03 110V wall charger adapter and a PT01 splitter cable that lets you charge multiple components at once. Low-battery indicators on both the light and controller tell you when a recharge is due.
How heavy and large are the Swift Taillights units?
Each ST01 taillight head weighs about 320 grams and measures roughly 145mm in diameter by 48mm thick, making it compact enough to store in a tack-room drawer or glove box. The handheld controller is even smaller at about 120 grams and 58.7mm by 28mm. Their light, portable size is a core part of why they can be carried as emergency backup and deployed anywhere.
Has Swift Hitch / Suntronics won any awards?
Yes. Suntronics' SH02 wireless backup camera system earned the NATDA (North American Trailer Dealers Association) New Product of the Year award in 2012, reflecting the company's reputation for innovation in portable wireless towing products. Suntronics pioneered the original portable wireless backup camera back in 2006 and applies that same wireless engineering expertise to the Swift Taillights line.
How do I order Swift Taillights and contact the company?
You can order directly from the official site at swifthitch.com, where the ST01 ships free to the US mainland on orders over $100. For questions, support, or replacement parts, reach Suntronics Technologies at 617-600-8282 or by email at [email protected]. The company is located at 2376 Hickswood Rd, Suite 103, High Point, NC 27265.
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