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Ladies and Gents,
Been on IRV2 a few times but not on this part, New here. The wife and I just picked up a new to us, 2004 Itasca Horizon, full body paint, 330 CAT, Alloy wheels, central vacuum, and much, much, more. This thing is BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!! To say the least. The PO just paid around $900.00 for some sort of treatment to the paint that's supposed to be super protectant for it and, at the same time, he paid almost the same $900.00 for a windshield protectant that's supposed to be great for the glass.
She's got right at 41K on the clock. The tires are dated "3410", all of them. The exterior is called "Slate Blue" and the interior is called "Harbor Breeze". It's got the "table and chair setup instead of the full booth dinette. It's also got the smaller fridge as apposed to the larger four door. We really like this coach. We came from a '99 34' Bounder with the V-10.
She's a ball to drive. Considerably smoother and INCREDIBLY MORE QUIET! On the way home, (578 miles worth) we had only one issue that I was not going to put up with. I had the two front tires checked for out-of-round, and out of balance. They deflated them both, rotated them on the wheels and re-inflated them and rebalanced them, using less weight than before. What a world of difference it made. I kept her at around 60 all the way home with the exception of a few miles passing some people etc. It's average fuel mpg was right at 8.1.
At present, I've got one issue I'm puzzled about. To those of you that have a similar rig, you know there's a vertical bank of switches (rockers etc) just inside the door. Among them is the patio awning "retract and extend". Just above that one is the switch to select patio or door awning.
When the selector switch is on "Door" the retract and extend switch works flawless. When the selector switch is on Patio, it has no effect on the movement of the patio awning. Now, around the corner, on the inside of that same panel, is three more rockers. One for Power and Wind sensor control, a second one for light, moderate or heavy wind, and a third, to operate the patio awning.
That switch, operates the awning just fine. In, out, in, out, all day long. Now, there's two more "extend and retract" rockers in the cabinet, above the passenger on the right. Neither of those have any effect on the operation of the awning. And, in the first outside compartment, just outside the door, is the "Weather Pro" control box. It has a tiny toggle switch for Wind sensor "enable or disable". But, there's a rocker on that box too for, yep, retract and extend. It also has no effect on moving the awning in or out.
So, out of 5 switches, only one moves the awning in and out. Hmmmmmm. I figured out how to remove that entire plastic box, with all switches attached away from the wall. Man there's a ton of wires in there. I'm no electrical genius by far so, if any one's got an idea on how and where to start, I'd surely appreciate it. Thanks in advance.
Scott
P.S. I will add, that when the "retract and extend" switch on that vertical bank of switches, just inside the door, is pushed, we here a slight "click" of a relay in the Windpro box, in the outside compartment. So, that switch is trying to do something, just not opening the awning.
Been on IRV2 a few times but not on this part, New here. The wife and I just picked up a new to us, 2004 Itasca Horizon, full body paint, 330 CAT, Alloy wheels, central vacuum, and much, much, more. This thing is BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!! To say the least. The PO just paid around $900.00 for some sort of treatment to the paint that's supposed to be super protectant for it and, at the same time, he paid almost the same $900.00 for a windshield protectant that's supposed to be great for the glass.
She's got right at 41K on the clock. The tires are dated "3410", all of them. The exterior is called "Slate Blue" and the interior is called "Harbor Breeze". It's got the "table and chair setup instead of the full booth dinette. It's also got the smaller fridge as apposed to the larger four door. We really like this coach. We came from a '99 34' Bounder with the V-10.
She's a ball to drive. Considerably smoother and INCREDIBLY MORE QUIET! On the way home, (578 miles worth) we had only one issue that I was not going to put up with. I had the two front tires checked for out-of-round, and out of balance. They deflated them both, rotated them on the wheels and re-inflated them and rebalanced them, using less weight than before. What a world of difference it made. I kept her at around 60 all the way home with the exception of a few miles passing some people etc. It's average fuel mpg was right at 8.1.
At present, I've got one issue I'm puzzled about. To those of you that have a similar rig, you know there's a vertical bank of switches (rockers etc) just inside the door. Among them is the patio awning "retract and extend". Just above that one is the switch to select patio or door awning.
When the selector switch is on "Door" the retract and extend switch works flawless. When the selector switch is on Patio, it has no effect on the movement of the patio awning. Now, around the corner, on the inside of that same panel, is three more rockers. One for Power and Wind sensor control, a second one for light, moderate or heavy wind, and a third, to operate the patio awning.
That switch, operates the awning just fine. In, out, in, out, all day long. Now, there's two more "extend and retract" rockers in the cabinet, above the passenger on the right. Neither of those have any effect on the operation of the awning. And, in the first outside compartment, just outside the door, is the "Weather Pro" control box. It has a tiny toggle switch for Wind sensor "enable or disable". But, there's a rocker on that box too for, yep, retract and extend. It also has no effect on moving the awning in or out.
So, out of 5 switches, only one moves the awning in and out. Hmmmmmm. I figured out how to remove that entire plastic box, with all switches attached away from the wall. Man there's a ton of wires in there. I'm no electrical genius by far so, if any one's got an idea on how and where to start, I'd surely appreciate it. Thanks in advance.
Scott
P.S. I will add, that when the "retract and extend" switch on that vertical bank of switches, just inside the door, is pushed, we here a slight "click" of a relay in the Windpro box, in the outside compartment. So, that switch is trying to do something, just not opening the awning.
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