Electric Tongue Jack goes down, but not up
Just got back from our latest trip. The jack was fine hooking up and setting up on site, but yesterday when we got ready to leave, the jack didn't want to go up. Going down was no problem but moving i...
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IB853347201 wrote:
I would suspect the battery as the issue. The jack pulls amps to work especially when lifting the trailer. The onboard 12 volt converter when on shore power often does not put out what's required and the battery reserve capacity fills the gap. Have you recently checked the water level in the battery? do you have a load tester to check the battery's condition?
My battery charger has a load tester on it. I'll try that. But it was good at the beginning of the season with low use. But, yeah, we are at the beginning of the end of it's life. I like 1995brave's test as well... I may try that first. My indication that it's the jack is that it's really hard to turn up (but my muscles may have the same problem that the motor on the jack does -- takes more power to move up).
