Auto awning not tight enough

Thank you folks for your input, this is my 1st power awning and it just seems a bit odd after having so many old style ones, and how tight you could make them, I guess it is normal for this style so I will put it out of my mind.


Thanks again guys

Dar & Barb

High winds and awning do not mix. I had a moderate wind carry the awning over the top of my Pop Up. What a mess that was.

I made some tie downs for my TTs electric awning, but I still bring it in if the wind picks up.

You can manually dump rain water from your electric awning by pulling down on the extension arms. You can get awfully wet doing so however.

rbpru wrote:
Fwd is corrected, an electric awning is not taut. It simply snugs up.

They can and do dump water.

Mine goes straight out only, though some can be angled downward.

Had my original camper awning ripped right off in a heavy rain several years ago and have been overly cautious ever since. Nonetheless, we were camping a couple weeks ago with our current camper and I woke up realizing that I left the new, electric awning deployed overnight through torrential downpours. The awning was perfectly fine the next morning! It did its job perfectly.

Now, high winds would be a different story...

Fwd is corrected, an electric awning is not taut. It simply snugs up.

They can and do dump water.

Mine goes straight out only, though some can be angled downward.

1stgenfarmboy wrote:
does anyone know how or where to direct me to find out how to snug up the awning springs on a power awning ?

The material just don't seem tight enough.

Dar

Is this your first power awning? If not, then disregard what follows-

The power awnings are a different animal compared to the older manual style. They are not as taut and as a previous poster stated, they're designed to dump water that accumulates.

Be sure you're not out thinking the new design.

My awning rolls out with the top surface showing on the roll. When it reaches the end and the trim flap drops, I continue until the flap groove faces up. Then I reverse it and wind it inwards until the flap groove faces down. The half turn reverse seems to snug up the awning cloth.

Maybe somebody rolled it in backwards at dealer?

My wife rolled ours up backwards and the next time i put it out, it was all jacked up and saggy.
I rolled it in the right way and rolled it back out and it was back to normal, nice and tight.

Something to check anyway.

On my electric awning there are no springs or adjustment for tension. Tension is supplied by a gas strut on each awning arm and can not be varied. It's not near as tight as an old style manual awning. However, it's designed so that if water collects on it the gas spring will collapse and dump the water. Also, if the wind catches the awning the strut will "give" and dump the air from the awning and then return it to it's normal extended position.

It is only 1 week and 3 days old, we havent even spent the night in it, It could be in spec but it looks a bit loose to me, but I am used to an old tyme one.

Did you reverse direction and wind it back in just a tad?

Did you check any gas struts to see if they are still pressurized?