Our power awning has a wind sensor. It has never worked properly. Used to have it fixed all the time under warranty. When that ran out, we just never messed with it. We take it in every night or if we are leaving for a bit. In over 40 years of camping, the last 14 fulltiming, we've never lost an awning.
A few weeks ago we put it out so DH could grill out in the shade. No wind, clear day, etc. He stepped inside for a minute to get some supplies and WHOOF, a microburst of wind out of nowhere caught the awning. From the sound, we figured it was up over the roof. Nope. . . looked perfectly normal until we put it in. The wind had lifted it from the back and pushed it forward on the rail to the point where it wouldn't roll up all the way. Dang. Never saw that before. We try to be so careful and this happened anyway!
We were scheduled to leave the following week and needed it fixed. So we called our local repair magician and his guys fixed it one morning in about 20 minutes. It wasn't damaged, just moved!
We see a lot of awnings staked out and even ribs put into the awning. When they take them down to move on, they are often all stretched out and difficult to even retract. We don't stake ours and use it when we want, taking it up when we leave or go to sleep.
Dale
