Is this slide out motor gone?
My slide out motor quit working. I checked the voltages and all seemed fine. I did find one questionable connection that I repaired. I pulled the motor, grounded the motor to the battery and then to...
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Bigguy1951 wrote:
The motor is a Venture 18:1 with two leads going into the motor, one black, one red. The ground for the motor is the chassis. The two leads are the directional leads, one for "in" the other for "out". The switch for the slideout has one hot coming in (black), two commons (white) which are tied together to a common coming up from the panel, and two hots leaving (red or green) the switch. The two hots (only one can be hot at a time) tie to the two wires that go down and back to the motor leads. The trailer is a 2005 Forest River Sand Piper.
The battery pos input to the switch should have a 30a fuse near the battery to be checked.
The neg into the switch on ours comes from nearby on the frame. It can get corroded at the frame connection.
Lippert has a new switch that is a little different from the one that came with our 2003 trailer. It has different wire colours too, so you need to see Lippert's website for the diagram for "old" and "new". It may be a better switch as well.
Our old one went bad inside it, and once it was replaced this summer the slide works like new. Seems all our previous woes were to do with that rocker switch going bad over the last few years.
