Power awning self retracts - why?
While camping, my Dometic Weather Pro power awning retracted itself three nights in a row (in the middle of the night). Really surprised me the first time it happened, makes quite a racket when you're...
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The wind sensor on the Weather Pro system has settings for wind speed that can be adjusted. When the sensor reads that mph of wind, it activates the system to retract the awning. If the weather is calm, and expected to be calm during the night. We usually leave our awning out/extended to reduce the amount of dew on our table in the morning. We set the awning to retract at 10mph. If we think it may get windy, we always retract the awning in at night. We nearly always retract it when away for more then a couple hours.
We were staying up on Lake Superior the past few weeks. Nice and calm when we went to bed. Woke up at 130 am by the sound of the awning retracting. By 3:30am the wind was gusting pretty hard at times, so we pulled in the slide on the windy side of the coach to protect the slide cover awning. Late morning we went for a walk around the campground and one large coach had a torn slide cover.
We were staying up on Lake Superior the past few weeks. Nice and calm when we went to bed. Woke up at 130 am by the sound of the awning retracting. By 3:30am the wind was gusting pretty hard at times, so we pulled in the slide on the windy side of the coach to protect the slide cover awning. Late morning we went for a walk around the campground and one large coach had a torn slide cover.
