mike740ski wrote:
The schematic shows no fuse in the activation switch panel. The remote activation switch panel (located by the stairs and door)is connected back to the controller base receiver (which is under the cabover step) via a phone cable, that's it. I did try plugging in the remote directly into the activation switch via the cable that comes with it. That did not work.
The way the remote works with the cord plugged into the remote activation switch is like this;
First, the remote must either have a dead battery or the battery removed. If you try to use the cord with a working battery in the remote, the slide will not work. Trust me on this. The only way the remote works with the cord is when it doesn't have a battery.
Second, you must wake-up the remote panel and have a red light. Unless the light is red, the remote won't work wirelessly or with the cord.
The phone cable does two things; it shorts out a wire back to the main board to wake it up, and it sends a voltage to the remote board to light the LED. Since you can't check the far end of the phone cord, all you can do is see if the remote switch is shorting out two of the wires on the phone cord. A volt meter in ohm mode will tell you if you are doing this. However, it's easier to just get a jumper and jumper the 4-pin RJ-11 connector the phone cable plugs into. Remove the remote panel, expose the RJ-11 socket, and with the phone cable plugged in, short out pins 1 and 2, 1 and 3, 1 and 4, 2 and 3, 2 and 4, 3 and 4. One of those short has to be the same as pushing the button. If the LED still doesn't light, then there's a problem back at the main control board.
If you can see under the slide where the motor and the overload breaker is, you might try to jumper 12 volts to this point. This would bypass the main control board and put 12 volts straight to the motor. Remember, polarity will determine if the slide is going to go in or out. If 12 volts doesn't work, try putting a ground to the same point.