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rpnelson11
Explorer III
Apr 26, 2025

BAL 5.1 SS Stabilizer Quits Working

The BAL 5.1 Stabilizer system on our 2022 36' Connect travel trailer stops working when we use the electric tongue jack or stabilizer jacks.  It does it mostly in warmer weather than in cooler weather.  When running the tongue jack down it will just shut off like there is a circuit breaker or thermal cut off in the circuit board that shuts it down.  It will stay off for 15 or 20 minutes before you can run the jack or stabilizers again.  A real pain when setting up or taking down your unit.  BAL was no help.  They claim there is nothing wrong with it (like most of them do).  They did send me a new circuit board with the switches but it did the same thing the original one did.  I took the circuit board out, made a simple switch panel for the tongue jack and light switch and re-wired the stabilizer jacks to remote switches near each stabilizer.  That works much better for me because with all of the switches at the jack you can't see how far the rear stabilizer jacks are down without going back there to look.  All of the jacks now work really well and there are no shut downs in this system.

 

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