MetalGator wrote:
The last couple of times we have used our dinette slide, the slide will go out about half way and then either stop or one side will stop and the other continue moving. If I then bring in the slide a little and then extend it again it will continue. It starts extending fine and then sounds like the motors are struggling. We just arrived at our site and I plugged in to power before I extended the slide. This is on a year old Class A so the batteries are only a little over a year old. I remember one time on our old TT that our fridge quit working while it was plugged in. I couldn't figure out why but then I checked the battery and it was dead. I was surprised that this happened since the TT was plugged into shore power. Once I replaced the battery the frog started cooling again. I am just wondering if when I put out the slide, the battery voltage starts dropping which could be causing my problem? I have read that Thor puts cheap batteries in their RVs. Just seems odd that this would happen with the RV plugged in to AC.
Burch
Some RV's require battery power for the slide outs , if you have a bad battery thats your problem, shore power will do you no good, other then charging your battery.
My friend just went thru this with a fifth wheel ,bad battery , slides would not operate, even has a sticker stating such .
