Hydraulic slides and leveling
Been looking at new trailers and have a question about the hydraulic systems used... The salesman (that does NOT carry those) tells me that they are no good... if your hydraulic unit stops there is ...
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RustyJC wrote:Itching2go wrote:
On the down side, our hydraulic setup didn't allow each slide to be extended individually.
Many (most?) current hydraulic slideout systems have switches and solenoid valves to allow each slideout to extend and retract individually.
Rusty
There are a lot out there that were not controllable either. I remember the big "must have" option on our Keystone products were the manual valves near the pump that let you control each slide, but they were hard to get to. That at least got you individual hydraulic paths to each slide. Otherwise it was one loop and the one with the least resistance moved first and it was real expensive to convert later to individual valves and solenoids.
Mine now just has valves that came standard, but they are still manual. I've actually only seen a couple of high end brands that had solenoid controlled independent slide movement on a full hydraulic system. The new electrics are cheap to build with independent switches, and I think even Keystone provides switches for that now.
