slide-out switch nightmare

Can't you just disconnect the motor wires and use 12V to activate the motor for your project?

Your set up sounds an unnecessary and undesirable restriction.

For those of you who have the factory installed switch controlling the electric or gas operation, does the red idiot light function at all if you choose electric water heating 'only' ??:@

Flute Man: I would expect to disconnect the existing switch(es). Locate the power supply to each (Lippert) slide actuating unit, and wire-in my individual switches from there. Sound feasible?

There is probably a control board somewhere that handles the sequencing of all three of those slides. Finding it and figuring out how to bypass it with individual switches probably requires a little knowledge of electronics and being able to read the schematic if there even is a schematic.

Jerry Parr



Probably limit switches are also involved to help control the sequencing.

If I were you I would try to find out who the manufacture of that control system is not the RV manufacture but the people that actually made the control system and get a hold of them and ask them how you can add some individual switches to that system and maybe get a schematic from them.

Roger10378, care to elaborate? I wish I had a good schematic of how the factory wired all this. I need to replace the plywood sheeting over the bedroom slide, that alone is enough of a project w/o having all three slides moving all the time.:R

It is a whole lot more involved than just a switch.