Power gear slide control

I have Powergear slides but no panel.

The switches are mounted on a panel with other switches eg HWH, water pump, etc.

They are tiny little switches and my fingers slide off.

I dislike them.

I have a Powergear slide in a truck camper (two geared rails but only one motor), but try as I might, I’ve been unable to find any kind of ‘controller device’ between the slide in & out switch and the slide motor...Kinda weird (??)....

I have a Ford car. I need to know if a dash light is supposed to be ON when driving? Kind of a dumb question without needed info. I am a professional RV Tech and have no idea what the OP has, so kind of hard to answer the question.

3 tons wrote:
I have a Powergear slide in a truck camper (two geared rails but only one motor), but try as I might, I’ve been unable to find any kind of ‘controller device’ between the slide in & out switch and the slide motor...Kinda weird (??)....

I found it on mine but had to "Sniff it out" bloodhound style

On my Damon INtruder the slide out controls are in the hall roughly the Middle of the RV (Between front and rear rooms)

The slide out motor is the main (Front Room) slide so it's a bit in front of that

The controller was on the ceiling of a basement compartment as far towards the front of the RV as was possible. the next thing forward is a wheel well. WHY I do not know (Hide the box contest???)

I found it by.> Well it failed. so a tech cut the wires and I built a home made bypass controller (no current limiter)

I hooked a Harbor Freight cable tracker to the cut ends since I knew they had no power on 'em (Checked first) and bleedl bleedled my way to enlightenment (Followed the line of greatest sound when the bundle branches well one way had sound the othe silent)

Now the following link is the one I used. found one like it 10 bucks cheaper on Amazon but.. This is the exact one I used. Walked in and walked out with it (Can't do that on A)

Cable Tracker/finder at HF

I Have a major repair than another major repair then that's next.
(And a couple minor ones as well).

is this what you have? slideout control manual
or see if you can find it here Power Gear® Above Floor Slide-Out System
or here Power Gear® Through Frame Slideout System

Thanks for your replies. The harbor freight tester looks like what I'll need as there must be a bundle of 50 wires, mostly yellow and some white, running down into the floor.

I found it by tracing back from the motor.. No power. Shut off 12 volt systems before using the cable tracker

wa8yxm wrote:
I found it by tracing back from the motor.. No power. Shut off 12 volt systems before using the cable tracker

Sounds like a solid plan, Thanks!

3 tons

Ok, I found a brake in a ground cable. There were too many wires to track it down so I bypassed it, works like it should, and really didn't need to buy a 200.00 brain.