slide won't retract
Howdy, Our new Jayco has a problem with the bed room slide it will not move either way. The motor seems to spin but will not connect to slide. Anyone have this problem? TIA
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mailman01 wrote:
Northwood did tell me that this little device, the resettable breaker/fuse, did stop the slide on the out and inward movements. If the information presented in some of the earlier posts here saying that this fuse should not be the main "stopper" of the slide movement, then where is the breaker/switch that is supposed to do this? Northwood gave me no indication of a switch being located at any other place.
Well, it was easy to check my awning. When it reaches its max extent, the motor just "stalls", there's still current running through it, until you release the button.
I figured that's what was happening with my slide and stab jack motors as well. The Lippert Stab Jack tech support agreed, saying the resettable fuse was *not* used to stop the Stab Jack motors. They would just "stall" until you released the button.
But I never found out anything about the slide motor operation. I would like to check it with my ammeter, but now hesitate to run it up against the one remaining stop to see if it "stalls" or is switched off by those auto-reset breakers. Am afraid that powerful motor will break something again!!
mailman01 wrote:
I now always try and stop the slide just prior to its' maximum movement either in or out just to prevent the fuse from having to stop it. Sounds like there should be a better "mousetrap" for this operation.
That's what I now do as well and totally agree with you.
