Slide stalls halfway out
2020 fifth wheel, in-wall bedroom slide with two motors. On battery, 12.6 V resting
Customer says: The bedroom slide goes out about a foot, then stops and the controller beeps. It was fine last month.
Tests you can run
- Battery voltage, nothing running
- Look for anything in the way: seals, furniture, debris in the track
- Voltage at the battery posts while the slide is moving
- Voltage at the slide controller input while the slide is moving
- Ground side: controller ground to battery –, slide moving
- Clamp amps on each motor wire
- Look at the lugs on the feed from the battery to the controller
- Reset the slide system the way the maker says
Repair options
The lesson behind this case
- How a slide room is built and carried
- Power and voltage on in-wall slides
- Rack and pinion drive: electrical diagnosis
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 comes in crooked
- Hydraulic slide crawls and stops
- One side of the slide won't move
- 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