Another Electirc Awning ?

[Deedle]

I have been searching the forum for this and not having any luck. I Have an electric awning A&E on a 2007 Expedition Fleetwood, I had the motor replaced in it last week because it was stalling, it was taking several attempts to finally get it in the closed position. Well I get it home and the same thing again. The repair guys now thinks it is the wind sensor. I am not really buying that. I turned the toggle switch to disable the wind sensor and it still does the same thing. Any thoughts? Thank you in advance.

[wa8yxm]

The A&E awning of that era uses a current sensor in the controller as a "Limit Switch"

Anything that causes excess current to flow will cause the controller to stop the motor. Also, a bad switch can cause it to stop.

[dougrainer]

What you do is go to the control and disconnect the 2 motor wires from the control. You then hot wire the motor to go in and out. IF it still stalls, the odds are the new motor is bad. IF it does NOT stall, then the odds are the control is bad. As the other poster stated, adding a few turns on the rear torsion can help, but if it stalls at almost full retraction, I doubt that is the problem. Does this awning also have the optional drop down sun shade? Doug

[Ranger_Smith]

I just had that problem with mine. The spring on the opposite side of the motor seems to get weak. I replaced the motor and no go. What I did was open awning about 6 inches. Put pin in awning to hold spring. Tie wrap arm so it will not open further. Remove bolt on top of arm to remove back side of awning. Put vice grips on bracket and removed pin while holding grips. I wound spring 2 more turns and problem is now gone.

Hope this helps.