Electric Awning question

DutchmenSport wrote:
Chris Bryant, thank-you for your concern, but my awning will not tip if that arm is bent. It is designed to slide straight if it is to tip. If it is bent, it will never self tip. The purpose for the knob is to tighten it down so it won't slide back into the up position. If it's bent, there's nothing to tighten as the inside part of the bar cannot slide up and down the outside part of the bar.

Your photo is completely correct for the style of awning arm pictured there. There are actual hinged joints in your photos, and looks like nothing slides. In this case, I can certainly understand why extending all the way out would lock up the arm. Mine does not lock. The two halves of the arm slide into each other to cause the tipping to work. If bent, they don't slide at all, which would cause water to pool in the awning, and eventually the weight would break the arms.

You are not using it correctly- the sliding adjustment is only to adjust the pitch of the awning, in order to tilt it. The rain dump has nothing to do with that sliding adjustment. The rain dump is done by the gas spring which holds the awning out- when the weight of the water pooling is more than the gas spring force, the awning will dump, except it must be properly extended, with the "knuckle" slightly bent.

Read the owners manual-
https://www.edometic.com/allusr/pdoc.nsf/pm/C107A29B517EF24F8525796100633574/$FILE/3310%20895%20POWER%20PATIO%20AWNING%20USER'S%20GUIDE.pdf

It is very clear about not hyperextending the awning.