Help!! Electric Atwood Jacks......

NRALIFR wrote:

sleepy wrote:
The manual that came with my Lance says: Do Not operate the (Atwood) jacks on shore power.

I have seen a dealer do it... trying to operate the jacks on 110VAC will ruin your jacks.

This is another good reason to keep your battery(s) in your camper and the truck camper fully charged by shore power, generator, or PVSolar.

Happy New Year...

Sleepy I've seen that in my manual as well, and I can't remember exactly how it's worded, but I've always interpreted it as meaning "Don't try to operate the jacks off of shore power ONLY". Or in other words; WITHOUT a fully charged battery, and only the converter supplying the 12v to the jacks. The converter alone cannot supply enough amps to operate the jacks. I can see that not only hurting the jacks, but the converter as well.

If the battery is pretty close to fully charged, and the battery disconnect switch is "ON", I see no problem with being plugged in to shore power while operating the jacks.

:):)

I agree... you are just saying it better than me...

Thanks

Check your battery connection at the terminal. Sometime it can appear clean and still not be a good connection. Clean and retighten the connection.

You do have the manual crank handle for the jacks don't you? I mean, I know cranking it manually wouldn't be any fun but if it saves a camping trip some time so be it.
My camper with Attwood jacks has 2 crank handles so you and a helper can raise the front or back together, one on each crank.

I know they are working now, but if you are or were in freezing temps. They jacks can freeze up and that could cause that problem as well.

You changed remote battery, maybe the new battery isn't real good? I like lithium battery from radio shack for the remote.

sleepy wrote:
The manual that came with my Lance says: Do Not operate the (Atwood) jacks on shore power.

I have seen a dealer do it... trying to operate the jacks on 110VAC will ruin your jacks.

This is another good reason to keep your battery(s) in your camper and the truck camper fully charged by shore power, generator, or PVSolar.

Happy New Year...

Sleepy I've seen that in my manual as well, and I can't remember exactly how it's worded, but I've always interpreted it as meaning "Don't try to operate the jacks off of shore power ONLY". Or in other words; WITHOUT a fully charged battery, and only the converter supplying the 12v to the jacks. The converter alone cannot supply enough amps to operate the jacks. I can see that not only hurting the jacks, but the converter as well.

If the battery is pretty close to fully charged, and the battery disconnect switch is "ON", I see no problem with being plugged in to shore power while operating the jacks.

:):)

The manual that came with my Lance says: Do Not operate the (Atwood) jacks on shore power.

I have seen a dealer do it... trying to operate the jacks on 110VAC will ruin your jacks.

This is another good reason to keep your battery(s) in your camper and the truck camper fully charged by shore power, generator, or PVSolar.

Happy New Year...

Batts are fully charged......

They do seem to be working as they should, like before. Once I got the truck under the camper the jacks were still activated and I was able to take them with no problem at all.
Things that make you say...hmm

Or perhaps just the front ones, then the back ones.

Tho' they are working now, do they seem to be working like they should? like they were before?

campermama wrote:
Ok I think it may be ok now.....can it be when you change the battery it needs to like reset itself? I let it sit for a while and now it seems to be working ok, at least for right now....

No, it sounds like the camper battery charge is low. Is the camper plugged in to shore power all the time? It takes a fully charged battery to operate all four jacks at once, especially if you're raising the camper. If the camper battery charge is low and you just plugged it in to shore power, it's going to take a little while before the battery is charged enough to use the jacks. You can cheat it a little with a low battery by just running one jack at a time.

:):)