Electrical Help for Newbie Micro Minnie FLX

[CampinInCO]

Originally Posted by reeman

Low voltage or a dying/dead battery usually causes that kind of problem. Plug in the trailer so the power is coming from the converter. Unless you have dead cells in the battery the power to the battery should still reach a voltage and ampacity level that will make the devices work. There is no way that all three motors have cooked! But it is entirely possible that a connection is loose or there are dead cells in the battery(ies). First and foremost check the connections and the actual voltage state of the battery under no load with a good VOM and the voltage when on charge from the converter.

If there is inadequate resting voltage from the battery(ies) then disconnect them and try with just the trailer plug in and no batteries in the circuit. The inverter/chargers on TT have enough ampacity at 12 volts to run devices they are designed to run the 12 volt system completely independently of the battery if necessary. If this was not the case travel trailers with dead or discharged batteries would be a nightmare with a slide out even in campgrounds with shore power.

It was the replay on the front of the camper, nearer to the camper on the tongu frame.

[reeman]

Originally Posted by CampinInCO

It was the replay on the front of the camper, nearer to the camper on the tongu frame.

Gather it was a relay issue affecting all three devices. Interesting. Amazing how simple some things can be. Glad it was not a wiring short issue or shorted cells in the batter(ies). I can understand how and why relays are used but strange that all those devices were reliant upon one relay for higher amperage access on the 12 volt side. On most trailers the slide out has a separate relay. Does the system have an automatic leveling function or something silly like that? Just one more overly complicated set of things to go wrong if it is trailer is designed to auto level and work the slide out at the same time IMO. It is a travel trailer not the international space station for crying out loud! I can understand a built in level indicator that goes green to indicate that the trailer is level enough to slide out but an auto leveling system relying upon sensors would be prone to sensor failure and errors and about as reliable as water tank level indicators knowing how cheap some of the components on these trailers are made.

[CampinInCO]

Originally Posted by reeman

Gather it was a relay issue affecting all three devices. Interesting. Amazing how simple some things can be. Glad it was not a wiring short issue or shorted cells in the batter(ies). I can understand how and why relays are used but strange that all those devices were reliant upon one relay for higher amperage access on the 12 volt side. On most trailers the slide out has a separate relay. Does the system have an automatic leveling function or something silly like that? Just one more overly complicated set of things to go wrong if it is trailer is designed to auto level and work the slide out at the same time IMO. It is a travel trailer not the international space station for crying out loud! I can understand a built in level indicator that goes green to indicate that the trailer is level enough to slide out but an auto leveling system relying upon sensors would be prone to sensor failure and errors and about as reliable as water tank level indicators knowing how cheap some of the components on these trailers are made.

Nope no auto leveler. Thought about that for about a minute before deciding I do not need it.

LOL and yes relay not replay.

[SactoSteve]

Hard to "ding" Winnebago for a Lippert component build problem.
We had the same problem. Had a mobile tech do the repair without contacting Winnebago first. Which was the wrong approach. But Winnebago covered the repair. And I believe Lippert covers Winnebago?
BTW using the "template" to align the rails is (I was told) SOP.

-Steve