Power Awning
We have had several different kinds of awnings on various motorhomes including Girard which we liked. We now have manual and are going to replace it with electric. I saw the 9100 listed (A&E, Dometic)...
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Stefonius wrote:
I have had both manual and electric and I will NEVER go back to a manual. Mine is a Dometic electric, and like others have said, I use it far more often than I ever used the manual awnings on prior coaches. It's just so much more convenient to deploy and retract.
Same here. Our previous KZ Spree was a brand new dealer lot model that was already equipped with a Carefree of Colorado power awning. Having owned a Dometic A&E 8500 manual awning and knowing what a great awning it is I asked my dealer to swap out the Carefree for a new Dometic ... he agreed, only asking me to wait until the fall when he wasn't quite so busy, probably hoping we'd also change our minds by then. We didn't, if anything I couldn't wait to get rid of that Carefree power awning that had no tilt but did have an automatic dump when enough water had accumulated on the awning - but you had better not be standing anywhere near it when it did dump! :M He did swap out that awning and we had no regrets.
Fast forward to when we bought our current Coachmen, also a brand new dealer lot model with a Dometic 9100 power awning, except this one does tilt significantly so we thought we'd go ahead and chance it. Three years later now and we have no complaints at all about our Dometic 9100 - even pouring rain just rolls off so it never accumulates, angle is fine for protection from the sun, I can even pull it lower to attach awning lights if I wish, but it's so easy to retract if the wind really begins to blow, otherwise we just leave it deployed, no issues at all. :B
