Slide power source

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.