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92DakotaHD
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May 09, 2016

Another fuse location for slide? 2008 Passport

I have a 2008 Passport 26' camper with a 1/2 slide for the kitchen and couch. The slide as worked intermittently at times. I had it in the shop way back prior to the warranty expired and they said it was a fuse. It's not working again and I can't find where the "body" fuse panel is they seemed to mention back then. There is the normal breaker/fuse box in the RV but not sure where another one could be. There wasn't even a fuse in the 12V fuse panel, but putting one in didn't' do anything and I know I didn't pull it.
  • Between the battery and the slide, usually mounted on the A frame is a selonoid or a fuse. Mine has the selonoid and my slideout did the same thing it went in and 5 minutes later it only went partially out. I had a loose wire at the selonoid and contact was not being made. Once that connection was tightened up the slide worked fine. Check that before you spend money on a repair that is very simple. Good luck.
  • It could be a resetting breaker causing the slide not to work. If your slide used to go part way and stop, and then continue after a moment, the breaker was resetting. These are known to eventually fail, needing replacement. They are normally close to the battery, small square box shaped, with a heavy wire. On my FW, it is mounted just inside the basement wall, but only about 18"s from the battery.

    Keep in mind, a well charged battery is usually required for slide operation, even if hooked to shore power.

    Jerry
  • Good Luck, this is not quite related to you situation, but offers an insight to your issue?

    I had a leveler alarm showing that the legs were down when they were actually up when we were traveling in California. I contacted CoachNet at 4:30 on a Friday afternoon. They called around for shops for me, but none could see me before Tuesday. They then put me in contact with a tech from Itasca who offered several options to removing fuses. No removed fuses solved the problem. We talked again, and he asked me what day that my coach was manufactured, I said that I had no idea. . . he said that the remaining fuse could be anywhere depending on who actually did that final assembly and on which day. He actually called back a couple of more times to offer suggestions, and talked with his co-workers at dinner with more ideas. He was terrific, but nothing worked, we drove 1,100 miles with the alarm ding, ding, dinging.