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trailrider
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Jan 23, 2018

Slide Wiring Critique

Dual slide out wiring in 2007 Komfort travel trailer. Post your theory explaining why it is wired this way. Correct? Incorrect? I have my theory.

Left side wire is incoming from batteries.

Jumper wire from left breaker to left stud on right breaker piggybacked to wire powering the large slide.

Right stud on right breaker powers the small slide.

IMG_20180104_161301443 by trailrider383, on Flickr

17 Replies

  • ScottG wrote:
    I didn't think the breakers were in series. Looks like 1 feed wire supplying both from the middle. Then a wire comes out of each end & goes to slide (Breakers are not polarity conscious). I would never try to deploy more than one slide at a time so the circuit looks fine to me.


    No, as I said in the original post the left side wire is incoming from batteries. So power to the small slide goes in series through both breakers.
  • I didn't think the breakers were in series. Looks like 1 feed wire supplying both from the middle. Then a wire comes out of each end & goes to slide (Breakers are not polarity conscious). I would never try to deploy more than one slide at a time so the circuit looks fine to me.
  • I'm guessing the breakers are different sizes, the little slide needing a smaller breaker (either due to smaller gauge wiring heading towards it--though that's not obvious--or per the slide mechanism maker's specifications). Having them both fed through the large breaker prevents overcorrect if both are operated simultaneously, though I assume there's also a fuse or breaker at the battery end of the incoming power feed wire.

    And, I agree with ScottG, that this is a neat and clean installation.
  • Looks like a surprisingly clean install!
    There are places in my Af where it looks like an angry chef threw a bowl spaghetti against a fan.

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