07-31-2019, 04:09 AM
Gordon,
What an A Ha! moment for me. A couple of years ago, the gear box on my Girard started slipping. Because the limit switches are in the gear box, the awning loses it’s knowledge of what is fully in and out. I could manually stop it when it came in. BUT, as I started down the road and the anemometer started spinning, the awning reactivated, totally stripping the gears, and the awning deployed. Since the gearbox was toast, you couldn’t manually crank it in. Somewhere between coach 512 and coach 567, Newell added the relay you referenced so that the scenario above would not happen.
What an A Ha! moment for me. A couple of years ago, the gear box on my Girard started slipping. Because the limit switches are in the gear box, the awning loses it’s knowledge of what is fully in and out. I could manually stop it when it came in. BUT, as I started down the road and the anemometer started spinning, the awning reactivated, totally stripping the gears, and the awning deployed. Since the gearbox was toast, you couldn’t manually crank it in. Somewhere between coach 512 and coach 567, Newell added the relay you referenced so that the scenario above would not happen.
Richard and Rhonda Entrekin
99 Newell, 512
Maverick Hybrid Toad
Inverness, FL (when we're home
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