Do I really need a limit switch?
In a previous thread I described how my slide quit working when I tried to retract it, and I tracked the problem to a limit switch. Replacing that limit switch appears to be a gigantic PITA, and t...
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beemerphile1 wrote:
You can certainly use it without limit switches but probably for less than $3 each you could replace them.
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Well I decided to simply bypass the switch and life is good!
In response to your post as I think I said earlier, the cost of the switch was NOT the issue, it was the work involved in getting to the switch.
In my TT the slide contains the sofa bed together with a couple of narrow tables at each end of the sofa bed. In order to get the the durned switch, the sofa bed would have to be removed and also the platform underneath that provided the mount for the sofa bed.
The slide is a Happijac, and after all the work of removing the sofa bed was complete, then you could finally get to the switch itself. At that point it would be possible to determine which of three different switches were used and then you could order the $3 part and hope it was still available.
I could picture my TT being in pieces all over the dealer's maintenance area for three months if I elected to go this direction. The service manager agreed. His advise was to wait until a more critical component needed servicing then maybe tackle this job also. That made sense to me.
PS The good news is that I now know more about that slide operation than I hope I'll ever need to know! :h
