2013 Laredo electric awning
Good morning! hope all is well with everyone. My wife and I have currently just taken delivery on a 2013 Laredo 266RL fifth, traded in our 2003 topaz touring unfortunate we had to be rid of it, but we...
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Well its a catch 22. I have had both.
On a TT where height is not as much an issue the manual is much easier; with a 5er's ~12ft height the electric feature is much easier.
We have a 2010 KZ 275 1500, this is a light weight trailer. Problem is when building a light weight unit they comprimise on two points thinner 1.5" walls vs. 2.0' secondly a uni-frame structure vs. having studded walls at regular intervals.
What does this have to do with awnings?... well on our KZ the back awning arm is anchored near the door frame, into a ~1" stud however, the front of the awning & arm did not line up with any framing studs and is anchored only in the coach's outer skin.
If you compare both awning designs the manual awning has an inverted Z design which shares the stress/weight from the top rail to the bottom of the coach. While the electric has a scissor shape design. The stress points/weigh distribution are all within about ~2'/~3' of each other at the top of the coach.
In our case we got caught in a micro burst in Florida, that pulled the front awning anchors completely out of the wall.
Now we have a fair weather awning which we have to constantly monitor. Eeerrrr
GPG
On a TT where height is not as much an issue the manual is much easier; with a 5er's ~12ft height the electric feature is much easier.
We have a 2010 KZ 275 1500, this is a light weight trailer. Problem is when building a light weight unit they comprimise on two points thinner 1.5" walls vs. 2.0' secondly a uni-frame structure vs. having studded walls at regular intervals.
What does this have to do with awnings?... well on our KZ the back awning arm is anchored near the door frame, into a ~1" stud however, the front of the awning & arm did not line up with any framing studs and is anchored only in the coach's outer skin.
If you compare both awning designs the manual awning has an inverted Z design which shares the stress/weight from the top rail to the bottom of the coach. While the electric has a scissor shape design. The stress points/weigh distribution are all within about ~2'/~3' of each other at the top of the coach.
In our case we got caught in a micro burst in Florida, that pulled the front awning anchors completely out of the wall.
Now we have a fair weather awning which we have to constantly monitor. Eeerrrr
GPG
