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Re: Power Steps - Lippert - Grinding at Retract?
Sorry - got busy. That bent screw was just something I grabbed to do the testing. The steel pin is a bit of work to get in and out, so I just grabbed something long, narrow... It's made from Chinesium, so that's why it bent. I crawled under, everything looked fine. No broken teeth. Someone else said the controller uses current sensing to know when to stop the retract. It sure sounds like it's not sensing the current increase.962Views0likes0CommentsRe: Power Steps - Lippert - Grinding at Retract?
MrWizard wrote: I think he means look to verify broken or not, Motors are available Gear boxes are available Replacing old motor with a new replacement version can also mean modifying the wiring, the last motor i replaced did not have the same connections as the one i removed, replacing the controller usually requires replacing the door sensor switch, because the controller circuit has changed to sense a different switch connection, One is a switch that closes AKA when the magnet is near, one is switch that opens when the magnet is near, I'm not sure which one is the old design and new design, I think closed when magenta is near AKA normally open switch is the old style, but i can't swear to that, Anyway the controller is not the OP's problem Yessir - you are correct. Another person told me the controller uses Current Sensing to determine when the motor has reached it's limit/end stop. So broken or worn teeth might be the issue. It's a nice day today so I'll ruin it by crawling underneath the beast and yanking stuff off. :)962Views0likes0CommentsRe: Power Steps - Lippert - Grinding at Retract?
Thank you MrWiz... Everything is well lubed, no binding. Motor grinds with at the same spot with no load, with steps disconnected. It's like it doesn't know it's at the limit and keeps pulling. I guess yanking the motor and looking for some broken teeth is next.299Views0likes0CommentsRe: Electric bikes !!
And we went the cheap route. Last year, Costco had the Jetson Bolts in for $329. They sold out within weeks, state wide. This year Costco got the Jetson Bolt Pro in for the same price. We bought two. Small, they fold up and fit inside the back of the RV. Only a 350 watt motor, so you won't be breaking any speed records, but for the price, we're very happy.497Views0likes0CommentsRe: Generators!! Yes YOU!
We run the generator but we are VERY aware of the noise it makes. We follow the rules about hours. When we fire it up, we're letting it run for the least amount of time possible. We don't use it for TV, we have Solar but only 200 watts and one house battery. We'll fire up the generator to thaw something, or to microwave popcorn. But then it's turned right off. Frankly, we don't want to listen to it either. If we know we're going to be in an extra-quiet spot, I'll bring along the quiet 3500 watt Predator and leave the built-in Onan off.213Views0likes0CommentsRe: Help! Class c house batteries dead. Cannot lift levelers
shirleyj62 wrote: So additional info on our problem. We have Bigfoot Leveling System. The All Up and the Air dump lights are flashing. unfortunately Big Foot Company closes at 4 pm Eastern. So we can’t call them. We have 2 house batteries and we have someone who should be bringing new batteries. 70% or more of the Leveling problems posts on our Jayco forum are ground related. I had some intermittent problems and then eventually lost all control over the jacks. Even the Lippert tech, I reached online, told me: Crawl under there and make sure the ground connection hasn't worked loose or got corroded. He was right. Cleaning and reseating the ground solved our problems. If you are sure your house batteries are dead - then fine, Replace them. But next time I have ANY jack problems, I'm checking that ground lug. One test I did to make sure was to hook up an expensive "jump box" directly to the battery. Didn't fix it. Then I hooked the negative lead on that jump box to the ground lug on the jack motor. Fixed it. Therefore I knew I had a ground problem.625Views0likes0CommentsRe: How to get a loan for RV
we bought ours about three years ago. I shopped around and Good Sam had the best rates. They required one of their licensed inspectors inspect the RV before they'd write the loan. Once we knew the loan was approved, we went ahead and pulled from our HELOC to essentially pay cash for the RV. Then used Good Sam to repay most of the HELOC.191Views0likes0Comments
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