Electric Slides Motor
Need help I was opening up the slides this morning and all of a sudden it just stopped. No noise or anything. I checked the breakers and fuses at the inverter but all looked good. I looked at the brea...
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BFL13 wrote:IB853347201 wrote:
The issue appears to be a 12 volt issue. I would guess that the trailer house battery is either dead or low on water, or both. Converter alone does not have enough output to power slides without reserve from battery.
Parallax 7355 converter on the 5er we had with its 14ft slide had no trouble running the slide in and out with no battery at all. Just have to join the two wires that go on the battery positive post (vise grip pliers eg) so there is a path from converter to slide motor.
Lippert specified a 30a fuse for the slide, and Trimetric showed it pulled about 25 amps at most for the hard part bringing it back up over the hump at the edge of the main floor. Was about 15 amps on the straight and level part.
I have a couple pictures but not sure how to post them on here to show you.
