Slide dead both ways, no sound
2018 travel trailer, Lippert electric through-frame slide. On battery, 12.7 V
Customer says: The slide won't go in or out. You press the switch and nothing happens, no click, no hum.
Leveling jacks and everything else on 12V work.
Tests you can run
- Battery voltage
- 12V at the slide switch input
- Find the slide's 30 A auto-reset breaker at the battery and read both sides
- Voltage at the motor while pressing the switch
- Jumper 12V straight to the motor from a battery
- Replace the slide switch
- Replace the slide motor
Repair options
The lesson behind this case
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
- One side of the slide won't move
- Auto-level leaves it crooked
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