High Voltage drop to slide motor
Good day folk :) I just purchased a 2017 Sportman Classic 181BH. I noticed the slide felt "sluggish" like the motor is not getting proper juice. Decided to do a test and by-pass existing wiring a...
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I just tried ours out-- one big slide in our 5er, 13ft wide approx. Lippert electric slide. 30a battery fuse as specified by Lippert.
Used Trimetric monitor for voltage and amps at the battery bank. Was on shore power, so turned that off, knocked down surface charge with kettle on inverter, turned that off, now sitting at 12.6 volts with the slide in the out position.
The slide motor is close to the back of the trailer and the four batts are up front with the in/out switch about half way.
Bring slide in up over the hump--Voltage dropped from 12.6 to 12.2 and held. Ran it out again and switched Tri to amps. Bring slide in and see approx. 25 amps coming up over the hump, then settles to approx. 15 amps the rest of the way in along the flat part.
Ran slide out again, about 14 amps going out then rose to 18 amps going down over the hump and to its stops.
Used Trimetric monitor for voltage and amps at the battery bank. Was on shore power, so turned that off, knocked down surface charge with kettle on inverter, turned that off, now sitting at 12.6 volts with the slide in the out position.
The slide motor is close to the back of the trailer and the four batts are up front with the in/out switch about half way.
Bring slide in up over the hump--Voltage dropped from 12.6 to 12.2 and held. Ran it out again and switched Tri to amps. Bring slide in and see approx. 25 amps coming up over the hump, then settles to approx. 15 amps the rest of the way in along the flat part.
Ran slide out again, about 14 amps going out then rose to 18 amps going down over the hump and to its stops.
