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Re: Lost Power to Landing Gear and Slides
RKW wrote: Sometimes manufacturers sneak in an inline fuse in the oddest places. By inline fuse I mean one that is spliced in somewhere along the run of a wire, and no where near the fuse box. I've seen them tucked out of sight. Just spitballing here... Thanks, there is an inline fuse fed by the dead wire, and when I bypassed the dead wire, it blew. Will look to see if I can find another one. Would sure be nice if they provided a schematic :)464Views0likes0CommentsLost Power to Landing Gear and Slides
Hi all, long post so bear with me as I explain lead up and problems. Manual seitches, lost remote. 2010 Montana Mountaineer 345 DBQ Just took a trip from KC to Corpus. Horrible rough roads. Motor for back stabilizers broke off along the way and is gone, as did the fridge door (not gone :)). Landing gear and slides worked fine to unhook. When hooking up to leave, landing gear was working, went to adjust truck, and wouldn’t work, tried slides and no luck either. Fuses good. On remote board (remote lost). No power on “to manual switches” connections). Jumper used from always + to slides got rooms in, but nothing on landing gear, hand cranked to get on truck. Got home, Found no power to fuse side of remote board switches, a purple wire feeding. Did jumper around and manual slides worked as did landing gear. Cut purple feed and hard connected purple to battery connection, gear and slides worked, then fuse blew. Guessing purple is a switch leg needing it’s own power, but banging my head on the wall. Of course everything’s concealed. Purple feed runs under slides to “nowhere.” Just weird I can jumper slides but not landing gear on board. Makes no sense to me. Not getting full power to lost motor connections either. Know something came loose but where and how to bypass? Thanks in advance for any insight.2.3KViews0likes5CommentsRe: Replacing Power Awning Fabric
fj12ryder wrote: If you didn't like doing the manual awning, it's likely you won't like doing an electric one either. :) I watched videos on how to do it, and decided I would spend a few bucks and have someone do it. I bought the fabric and had it installed. I think it cost $150 or so to have it done. Well worth it IMO. I got the material from Shade Pro. Excellent quality at a reasonable, I thought, price. Thanks for the input. Do you recall if you did 13oz or 15oz?2KViews0likes0CommentsReplacing Power Awning Fabric
Hi all, I'm needing to replace my awning fabric on a 5th wheel with a power awning. Curious if it is as much of a pain as doing it on a manual awning, which I've done before and swore I'd never do again. Does it have a spring that needs rewound like the manual awning? Any other insight? Thanks in advance for any input!4.3KViews0likes9CommentsRe: House Battery Electrical Issue
Just an update, got to my camper and had just below 12V on house battery but only 1/10th of that on the 12V lug in the panel. Had good fuses after replacing the one blown one I found initially, but still no power at all in the camper on system panel or any other 12V items. Plugged into campground power, then unplugged and everything was working off house battery again. Apparently there's some kind of auto reset breaker on mine that reset due to plugging in momentarily?316Views0likes0CommentsRe: House Battery Electrical Issue
jake2250 wrote: Might look to see if there is a fuse near your inverter or converter somewhere inside the trailer where the electrical panel is. I hooked the batteries up wrong once and it blew that fuse,, I was was behind the 12v panel. Mine was a resetable fuse. Thanks, will look at that as well. Checked all normal fuses in panel with none blown in the fuse block, but will do some more digging there as well if nothing else obvious shows up.316Views0likes0Comments
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