One side of the slide won't move
2021 travel trailer, in-wall slide with two motors. 30A shore, batteries charged
Customer says: The slide starts to come in, then stops and the controller beeps. The front moved a little. The back didn't move at all.
Tests you can run
- Voltage at the controller while it tries to move
- Read the controller's fault lights
- Look at the rear motor's plug and wiring
- Voltage at the rear motor plug while the controller tries to move it
- Power the rear motor directly with a jump pack, plug off
- Rear motor ohms at its plug, power off
- Run the controller's reset procedure
- Replace the controller
Repair options
The lesson behind this case
- How an in-wall slide is built and moves
- The in-wall controller: versions and fault codes
- Proving an in-wall motor and its wiring
Keep going on slides and leveling
Learn it
- How a slide room is built and carried
- Identify the slide system in a minute
- The in-wall controller: versions and fault codes
- Ball-screw actuator slides: clutch, stops, diagnosis
- Rack and pinion drive: electrical diagnosis
Prove it
- Slide stalls halfway out
- Slide comes in crooked
- Hydraulic slide crawls and stops
- Auto-level leaves it crooked
- Slide dead both ways, no sound
See it in 3D
Codes and specs
- Slides: schwintek
- Lippert in-wall and through-frame slides
- Leveling: ground control
- Lippert 5th wheel hydraulic auto level