5th wheel Keystone 2007 Copper Canyon frustrations

[TGPILOT]

Ok, getting a bit frustrated with this thing. Bought it used last Fall and dumped a ton of money that I wasn't expecting into it.

Started my three month vacation yesterday and after I got to Coburg, OR. I went into the Camping World they have there, to have them install three slide toppers they had on sale. While there, I brought up the fact that my slides were stalling when running them in or out. They found that some idiot had put a light wire on it, so they replaced it with a heavier wire that so far seems to do the trick. They recommended also, a 90 amp resettable fuse to replace the 30 amp that was on it. That they did not have will pick it up tomorrow at a parts house.

The other two issues were I had pop a couple of 30 amp inline fuses on the landing gear. Today, I blew two in five minutes. Don't have a clue to the problem here.

Last, when I had the rig in the shop all winter being worked on, I had them replace the old analog ant for a new digital one. Nothing, nada, not a pix on either TV, and yes I found and turned on the amp switch. Now, when I did a trial run on Memorial day I hooked up to park cable and got a bit off their messed up signal. I have one that says Sat. prep and the other is just a line in which I assume is the direct on air line. I've tried both.

Anybody have an answer to any of my issues?

Thanks,

Tom

[TGPILOT]

Well, solved the TV problem. I was told by a RV repairman that I probably needed a converter box for my old analog TV, the ant alone was not going to do it. I had three or four that I had bought a few years back during the big change over. Never used them and packed them away.

Now, a thousand miles from home I find I need one, so had to run to Wally World and blow another fifty on another box. BUT, it works, now have TV via the ant on the roof.

Now, if I could just solve those other problems.

[TGPILOT]

Never had a chance to try out the old TV ant. After I bought the rig, I had all the work done. The booster was off when I was on cable TV, the park had really bad service the time I tried it.

[Timay]

ramyankee wrote:

Jim-Linda wrote:
Finally, no such thing as a digital antenna, the old one work work just fine.

I believe it would be a high definition antennae.

No such thing as a digital antenna, nor a high definition antenna, the old one would work just fine.

Tim

[ramyankee]

Jim-Linda wrote:
Finally, no such thing as a digital antenna, the old one work work just fine.

I believe it would be a high definition antennae.

[Jim-Linda]

Finally, no such thing as a digital antenna, the old one work work just fine.

[Coach-man]

I would agree with the heavier wire on the slideouts, but if you are not blowing the 30 amp that came with the unit why change? As for the television, you stated that you turned on the booster, do you know for a fact that it is working? Assuming it is working, did you turn the antenae to see if you could get a better signal? Perhaps talk to some other folks at the campground, are they getting a signal, if so how is their antenae aligned? Finally, on cable did you turn the booster off? If connected to cable and the booster on you will get a scambled picture! Good luck, do not give up, yet!

[TGPILOT]

That was my thoughts, that's why I bought a resettable breaker that's only 45 amps. That I will carry for a spare. So far, just putting heavier wires on my slide out motor has made a big difference.

[SanMarMor]

90 amp fuse??? Are friggin idiots? There is noting in any trailer that requires a 90 amp fuse. And I'm quite sure there is no wiring in the trailer that can handle 90 amps. If that's there solution to fix it, I'd go somewhere else.

[TGPILOT]

Thanks for the info guys, I knew about overloading the smaller wires, so was leery of that. I did buy a 30 amp inline fuse that I kept blowing on the landing gear with a 30 amp resettable one. So far, since I have used it, I've blown three fuses in the LG, as mentioned two in five minutes.

After Camping World replaced the smaller wires on my slide outs with heavier wire they have so far run better, no stalling. I did get a 45 amp resettable fuse to carry for the one they wanted to put the 90 amp one.

Funny thing on the LG fuse, it's an inline that runs into a resettable breaker. Don't know what they were thinking there, neither does my RV repair guy.

Oh, on the LG, the wife did blow it the first time. I was extending the legs off the truck and no, I was not lifting the truck too. I did place a black mark on the legs where we need to stop to keep from blowing them that way.

I called him long distance to day to discuss that and the TV not working. Without seeing it again he has no clue.

Thanks gain guys for the help and suggestions. Keep em coming because either on the road or when I get home in three months I will have them looked at.

Tom

[ScottG]

BB_TX wrote:
I would not allow them to replace a 30 amp fuse with a 90 amp fuse unless they guaranteed me (in writing) that they verified that all associated wiring is sized to handle 90 amps.

Slides starting/stopping during extend/retract are frequently due to a failing auto reset circuit breaker.

So true.
I can't imagine anyone who knows anything about electricity doing such a stupid thing.
Unless they also re-wired it, you now have a wire that will burn up before the breaker.

[BB_TX]

I would not allow them to replace a 30 amp fuse with a 90 amp fuse unless they guaranteed me (in writing) that they verified that all associated wiring is sized to handle 90 amps.

Slides starting/stopping during extend/retract are frequently due to a failing auto reset circuit breaker.

[donn0128]

Are you running the landing gear up till the fuse blows? Easy fix is to add a reversing relay and rewire everything to work correctly,add some up limit switches. No more problems there. As for OTA TV? Never once in 30 years have I used it so outta luck there.