Electric jack conversion?

[_DJ_1]

My Dealer says there is an electric jack conversion for my manual screw type jacks. It is an electric motor that fits on top of the jack. Any experiences, comments, etc? Yes, I know they are expensive!!!

[mooring_product]

Saw a used Lance on craigslist for $500 with electric jacks. I almost wanted to buy it for the parts..
Just went back to find it but it sold.

[Bob__B]

I have an old Lance with the hydraulic jacks and they are a pain also......Really have to be careful bringing it down.....although going down is easy.

[_DJ_1]

Camp, Forrest, Camp! wrote:
So what did you end up doing DJ? I just bought a camper in Middleton with the Atwood manual jacks and would like to upgrade.

Still going jack to jack with my drill!! :B

Electric jacks would be so sweet but I can not cough up that kind of dough for such a luxury!! I all ready did the compressor fridge and 100 watt solar. Next thing is to find room for Trojan twin sixes!!!

[Camp__Forrest__]

So what did you end up doing DJ? I just bought a camper in Middleton with the Atwood manual jacks and would like to upgrade.

[_DJ_1]

dadwolf2 wrote:
DJ, maybe you should save your $ for that new FWC you wanted??

No, I have decided to keep this one. FWC is too minimal. I like my bathroom and gray tank!!! 🙂

[HJGyswyt]

Brand New Happijac Wireless Motors (Cheap)

Don't know if this helps, but this guy has had these for sale for a couple weeks here in the Seattle area. Hans

[dadwolf2]

DJ, maybe you should save your $ for that new FWC you wanted??

[_DJ_1]

AnEv942 wrote:
DJ, is your camper prewired for electric jacks? If so I doubt for remote-my understanding is differnet wiring required (I noted R/T wiring 'kit' another $450+). Dont know what (if plausible) might be needed to adapt non remote wiring.

If it were prewired for elec jacks(non remote)Pretty sure I'd just buy non-remote jacks-you could sell the manual jacks (or reinstall if camper sold).
I never understood why the conversion kits were so high.

No, they will have to wire the whole thing from scratch. They haven't given me a quote yet, just a ball park figure of $2000.

[AnEv942]

DJ, is your camper prewired for electric jacks? If so I doubt for remote-my understanding is differnet wiring required (I noted R/T wiring 'kit' another $450+). Dont know what (if plausible) might be needed to adapt non remote wiring.

If it were prewired for elec jacks(non remote)Pretty sure I'd just buy non-remote jacks-you could sell the manual jacks (or reinstall if camper sold).
I never understood why the conversion kits were so high.

[shellbackcva59]

mkirsch wrote:

NRALIFR wrote:
Your dealer is probably referring to the Rieco Titan conversion kit for Rieco and Atwood manual jacks.

Yeah but $1400+????

I didn't pay much more than that for my whole camper!!!

Plus I could still get what I paid for my camper out of it now if I sold it, but I sincerely doubt I'd be able to get $1400 more with the electric jacks.

Electric jacks would be sweet, but I can't bring myself to pay that kind of money.

I hear you on never getting your money back. But it made my trips so much easier, My wife has MS, so it's a must that the camper has to be off the truck and near ground level for her access. I even have a couple of the drill adapters for my old jacks, but she couldn't help and I had to keep circling the "wagon".

[mkirsch]

NRALIFR wrote:
Your dealer is probably referring to the Rieco Titan conversion kit for Rieco and Atwood manual jacks.

Yeah but $1400+????

I didn't pay much more than that for my whole camper!!!

Plus I could still get what I paid for my camper out of it now if I sold it, but I sincerely doubt I'd be able to get $1400 more with the electric jacks.

Electric jacks would be sweet, but I can't bring myself to pay that kind of money.

[shellbackcva59]

I've now done 2 of my truck campers with the Reico Titan conversion kit. Wouldn't be without them! Nothing like sitting on the picnic table with the remote in my hand watching the camper go up or down. Ease of loading or unloading makes using the camper so much easier. Installing the electric motors is a piece of cake. Wiring the jacks can get difficult. My first camper I hid the wires inside and it was lots of work. My present camper I ran the jack wiring outside the camper in conduit. then entered the camper from each side where the bed step hides them. That's where I installed the control box.

[Boatycall]

You can do a search on Ebay, there's a couple RV parts dealers selling the Rieco add-on kits. They're great kits, but not cheap. One reputable dealer is selling the whole kit for $1238.00.
If you use a drill, you'll 3-leg your camper a lot. For your pop-up that's not so bad, on a larger one like mine it's very bad. The jacks aren't rated to handle 3-legging mine, not to mention it feels like it's going to tip over.
The Rieco kit eliminates that with an "ALL-UP" and an "ALL-DOWN" button. Takes all jacks and raises/lowers it all at once. Makes it much faster and safer than doing one jack at a time.
Rieco motors draw 25 amps per motor. Use 8ga wire per jack, and 4ga going from the controller to the batteries.
Make sure to use m

[AnEv942]

If you do the conversion take some pics-
there was a thread in the TCU by vik1, last May, converting his Reico jacks but since removed due to all info was in missing pictures.