Slide opened by itself
Found kitchen slide open one morning a few weeks ago. The dealer told me that a controller was the problem, it was replaced and problem solved. 'BTW', the tech saw a leak in the same compartment...
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TechWriter wrote:Tom/Barb wrote:L2R wrote:
100' later and 1/2 block from the highway, the slide opened under power while I was driving 5 mph and E brake was not engaged.
They sent me out on the highway with a very real safety issue.
this would be a great worry to me. a wet control compartment, why would a coach manufacturer make such a thing.
Thank God Newmar places all the slide mechanism in the basement storage over head. ( high and dry)
Funny you mention Newmar as there's a known issue with older Newmar slide out controllers -- they can activate the slide motor "spontaneously".
Apparently, an electrical or RF transient can trigger a controller to open/close a slide out. After it happened to me once, I now pull the slide out motor fuse after extending/retracting my slides,
Running a 12 gauge Ground wire from the controller to a FRAME ground usually fixed this issue. Doug
