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mike740ski
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Mar 24, 2013

Slideout will not extend

Looks like this will be the year of the gremlins. Out camping now this week. The remote slide out wont work. The RF panel lights are not active. Neither the blue or red lights will activate when I hit tha wake up button. Looked into manual method and two issues with that: The crank handle hits truck so that is useless. Second problem was the tip of the long socket mechanism used for cranking the slide is broken and And just spins. I Attempted to go with half turns of the crank when realized nothing was happening.

Tried powering down the whole camper and then back up. Did not work. Since the slide out is on top of the cabover step, I cannot inspect the fuses. Not sure where any if or where any breakers for the slide out might be. All other electrical is working.

My logic, make sense?:

Reviewing the electrical schematic right now. If its not the motor, could be 40a breaker, thermo limited circuit breaker, or 20 a act fuse. Since no power to activation switch, that eliminates thermo cb. I assume 40 a breaker also feeds other appliances? That would eliminate 40a breaker then, leaving 20 amp act fuse, which I can't get at since the slide out is currently on top of the cabover step.

Something happened Friday nite between the time I retracted the slide to head out, and the time we pulled into camp 4 hrs later and tried to extend it.
  • Bill T wrote:
    Mike try removing all power from camper. Disconnect shore power, unplug pigtail from truck and disconnect battery. Let unit sit for about 30 sec.s then power back up. This takes care of it for me. And be sure the remote batteries are good..

    There is a fuse on the jack/slide control module, I think it is a twenty amp. On my unit there is a circuit breaker in the line to the slide motor, near the motor. But I do not think that would have a bearing on your problem.


    I tried once. Will try again. What I did not do is pop the fuse from the truck power to the camper power - so will try that as effectively unplugging the pigtail - good idea. (Since the camper is stuck on the truck until I get this resolved, I cant unplug the pigtail from the truck to the camper. the entire remote system is down including remote jack extend/retract).
  • Mike try removing all power from camper. Disconnect shore power, unplug pigtail from truck and disconnect battery. Let unit sit for about 30 sec.s then power back up. This takes care of it for me. And be sure the remote batteries are good..

    There is a fuse on the jack/slide control module, I think it is a twenty amp. On my unit there is a circuit breaker in the line to the slide motor, near the motor. But I do not think that would have a bearing on your problem.

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