Strange? slide went out by itself.
MH was in driveway about a wk., went in and turned on bat switch to on position, so as to turn on some lights, after a few seconds main slide went out, tried to bring in, came in half way and went out...
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TechWriter wrote:midnightsadie wrote:
I don,t think a dealer will admit to anything. something like this... we never heard of that happening before.
I've heard it happen in Newmars with Intellitec slide controllers (like my 2001).
Many have speculated on the cause (electrical transient, fluorescent lights, etc).
It happened to me when I plugged in one of those electric bug zappers -- the living room slide just started coming in on its own.
Since then, I (along with other Newmar owners) just remove the slide out fuse after extending the slides.
Newmar does not acknowledge the problem, but sooner or later someone will get hurt.
Newmar was one of the first to change the wall switch from YOUR design. Your year you have a spring loaded switch and one push and the unit fully extends or retracts. In the mid 2000's (04 or 05) Newmar changed the controller to require that you MUST hold the wall switch to continue full extend or retract. Yes, there were reports that on YOUR type controller(intellitec), something would activate without pushing the button at all. Newmar DID admit they were aware of the problem back then and had us change the controller and/or the wall switch if a customer was concerned when under the 3 year warranty. We also added a separate additional ground wire(14 gauge)from a chassis frame TO the Intellitec control module. NONE of our customers we did this mod too ever came back with the complaint again. Doug
