10-22-2012, 05:28 PM
Hello everyone !
We are staying for 2 weeks in Northwest and ready to travel south (Santa Barbara, Ca & later Tucson, AZ)
This morning I wanted to retract our slides (Newell 2001 2 hydraulic slides) and floor in front slide dropped off about 3" and that was all.
Went outside to listen for motor sound when my wife pressed the slide switch, just heard two knocks (out of the two square boxes) and there was no sound of the hydrolic pump doing its work.
Tried rear slide, no sound, nothing!
We called local mechanic and he helped to get both of them back but we still don't know what the problem was and why it happened.
We had plenty volts going - 13.8v showed on the panel, plugged into 50 amp, generator on, and house and engine battery merged. We have been having power issues and that was the recommendation from Newell to get them to retract (which had been working).
We turned engine and generator off, waited for the mechanic to come out and see what he can do.
He came and asked us to turn the slide out swich on, front slide retracted; he said he touched all wires for conection. He then checked the two relays make sure voltage was going in, which it was. We then tried to bring in the rear slide, and that one did not respond at all. We checked fuses which were fine.
Few minutes later we tried the rear slide again and it came in.
It looks like we have some kind of problem. Has anyone experienced similar problems? it might be near the cotrol boxes ( two sqare nes ) or two slide in switchs , but why would both of them went bad same time?
We tried the whole process two times just be sure it worked and it did.
In last month we did have problem with the slides. That seemed to be a voltage problem and Newell said plug in to shore line, gen on, engine on, than try it and that worked. There was not enough voltage to slide them in. We tried all those tricks initially today so the voltage was high enough. So now I suspect it wasn't just the voltage but something else is going on.
Wanted to ask if anyone had same problem or if anyone might know what to look for? Could it be the Panel boxes (that is where I heard clicking sounds).
We are heading to OR and found a service center in Central Point in OR. near Medford who works on HWH systems, hope we can get it figured out and fixed, but again wanted to get some input from forum members.
Best,
Les Korcala
Newell 2001 2 slides #582
We are staying for 2 weeks in Northwest and ready to travel south (Santa Barbara, Ca & later Tucson, AZ)
This morning I wanted to retract our slides (Newell 2001 2 hydraulic slides) and floor in front slide dropped off about 3" and that was all.
Went outside to listen for motor sound when my wife pressed the slide switch, just heard two knocks (out of the two square boxes) and there was no sound of the hydrolic pump doing its work.
Tried rear slide, no sound, nothing!
We called local mechanic and he helped to get both of them back but we still don't know what the problem was and why it happened.
We had plenty volts going - 13.8v showed on the panel, plugged into 50 amp, generator on, and house and engine battery merged. We have been having power issues and that was the recommendation from Newell to get them to retract (which had been working).
We turned engine and generator off, waited for the mechanic to come out and see what he can do.
He came and asked us to turn the slide out swich on, front slide retracted; he said he touched all wires for conection. He then checked the two relays make sure voltage was going in, which it was. We then tried to bring in the rear slide, and that one did not respond at all. We checked fuses which were fine.
Few minutes later we tried the rear slide again and it came in.
It looks like we have some kind of problem. Has anyone experienced similar problems? it might be near the cotrol boxes ( two sqare nes ) or two slide in switchs , but why would both of them went bad same time?
We tried the whole process two times just be sure it worked and it did.
In last month we did have problem with the slides. That seemed to be a voltage problem and Newell said plug in to shore line, gen on, engine on, than try it and that worked. There was not enough voltage to slide them in. We tried all those tricks initially today so the voltage was high enough. So now I suspect it wasn't just the voltage but something else is going on.
Wanted to ask if anyone had same problem or if anyone might know what to look for? Could it be the Panel boxes (that is where I heard clicking sounds).
We are heading to OR and found a service center in Central Point in OR. near Medford who works on HWH systems, hope we can get it figured out and fixed, but again wanted to get some input from forum members.
Best,
Les Korcala
Newell 2001 2 slides #582
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