Entrance steps
Our steps normally come out and stay out when I open the door to exit after stopping the engine. I've been sitting in my winter site for a few months. Started the engine. After I turned it off and ...
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D.E.Bishop wrote:MDKMDK wrote:
You're welcome. Hope it was just "step Alzheimers" and not something more serious. Funny that there isn't any smarts in the system to keep you from killing your chassis battery from regular step extension and retraction. They put those types of failsafes in other automotive systems.
I'm not trolling but maybe that is why both Kwikee and Lippert suggest wiring the power for the motor to the house batteries(y). I agree that Winnie and who knows how many others may wire it to the chhassis battery but it would provide that protection to the chassis battery if it were wired to the house battery after the disconnect switch.
Maybe Winnie finds it easier to enable the other failsafe that retracts the step if the engine starts and/or the transmission is put into gear with the step extended? It might just be easier to wire it up on the chassis battery/ignition circuitry side of things, would be my thinking.
I may ask Winnebago, as it seems like a good question as to why they do it the way they do it.
