Power Awning

path1 wrote:
(Something to think about) I've recently gone thru the same thing. Newer RV we got had an elec awning. It didn't work right, but didn't notice that until sever trips. When we were buying, I certainly wasn't going to pay to have it taken off and manual put on. I was "lucky" enough to find an experienced awning guy fix it in about 10 min. According to this awning guy with 16 years experience, many if not most OEM's don't make final adjustments and let the dealer mess with them. Some awnings take 5 min, other awnings, lots more time to get everything working right. Some OEM's put their "newbies" on installing awnings. Manufactures don't want to slow up production, so OEM's let dealers work it out. Awning guy has some dealers that would call him for every unit that was delivered to a dealer. He would make sure awning worked right. Other dealers would only call when awning is a real pain. In my case I'm pretty sure our dealer hit the button and rolled awning back in and said "good enough". Which it really wasn't.

Once you get it worked out, you'll like I better. I'm beginning to like my elec awning. When it rains the weight of water drains after gas strut thing pinches in a bit with water weight. But it didn't do that until the awning guy made final adjustments. I've even added a sun shade that rolls up with our awning.

Still can't fix the slope of awning much. Works good between 10am and 3 pm. Our old manual I could adjust a lot more.

Also I think your in good company. We're "snowbirding" in a park of 150 spots. Every week we see at least two different awning company's fixing awnings exclusively. That's all they do, just fix awnings either patio, slide outs, or windows. Strange a company could just do awnings? One would think, not that big of market, but they've been at it many years.

Well I have 37 years of installing and working on Awnings and VERY FEW ever need any type adjustment after install. They are basically foolproof on install. That said, you can tweak the awning if you read the directions, but tweaking is what YOU do depending on your particular requirements. Some electric awnings you cannot tweak due to how it is required to be installed----like over a slideout box and you cannot adjust without it causing a problem with the slideout box hitting the awning or the awning hitting the slideout when the slide is out. So, THAT type you will have NO slope and no way to get a slope. I call RV'ers that leave ANY awning out in wind and rain---NEW AWNING BUYERS. Even with a slope, a heavy enough rain will fill up the awning and not shed and then collapse the arms. If you existing fabric is NOT TAUT(flabby in the center), then you have left it out and the water that accumulated has stretched the fabric and to fix you have to replace the fabric. YES, manual awnings give you the most adjustments and variables you will need for almost any weather. Doug