Slide power source

Yes. They must, or you'd have to be plugged in to move them, and that would suck.

Yes.
I do need to qualify that answer. Are your slides operated from electric motors or hydraulics?

They are motors. Cog gear system.

Slides always operate off of 12volt (battery) no matter if hydraulic or electric motor. Hydraulic uses 1 motor to run the hydraulic pump to operate multiple slides. Multiple motors(1 per slide) are used if rack an pinion or cable operated. Shore power (110volt) runs the converter that charges the battery to make everything work. Sometimes you can run the slides without a battery when plugged in if motors don't draw more amps than the converter puts out. Randu

JOHN5206 wrote:
Do the slides run directly off the house battery, when hooked to shore power?

If 12 volt electric motor slide system, then NO. The battery is usually required to be installed and charged up, but the slide system is wired to the 12 volt breaker panel supply. Most slides require both a charged up battery AND connected to 120 shore Power(Power Converter) for optimum operation. Very few Slide systems are wired direct to the 12 volt battery posts. Doug

JOHN5206 wrote:
Do the slides run directly off the house battery, when hooked to shore power?

Like everything else , the load will operate from the higher voltage source. If the converter is at 13.6 and the battery at 12.7, then the slide will operate from the converter until its loaded voltage from running the slide and whatever else is on, gets to 12.7, then the battery will start to help out.

That means, with a battery connected and on shore power, both will share in the work at some stages of play, such as when the slide comes over the hump coming in where most power is required.

The converter may be able to do it all by itself if no battery is connected. Some rigs say you need the battery to run the slide, but that just means they have the slide motor pos and the converter pos on the battery pos terminal.

What they really mean is that the converter and slide motor pos must be connected to make a path, so with no battery, no path. Use a vice grips or other clamp to join the two wires with no battery, and you are back in business on converter only.

Mine run off the chassis battery

I believe many of the Winnebago / Itasca motor driven slides were wired to run from the engine battery not the house battery. The reason Winne recommends running the engine where the alternator came help with moving the slides.

RJsfishin wrote:
Mine run off the chassis battery

Are you positive? Some think since the engine or key must be ON and the parking brake set, then the chassis supplies power to the slide motor. But, MOST OEM's wire the actual slide motor system to the coach, but have a relay that requires the Chassis system to be engaged to operate the slide room. Doug

KJINTF wrote:
I believe many of the Winnebago / Itasca motor driven slides were wired to run from the engine battery not the house battery. The reason Winne recommends running the engine where the alternator came help with moving the slides.

Are you positive? Some think since the engine or key must be ON and the parking brake set, then the chassis supplies power to the slide motor. But, MOST OEM's wire the actual slide motor system to the coach, but have a relay that requires the Chassis system to be engaged to operate the slide room. Doug