Cable slide 3D wiring model

BAL Exact-Slide (XACT)

A BAL Exact-Slide (XACT) has a motor at the top of each jamb. Its chain pulls Out cables to the room's inside end and In cables to its outside end, and the eMFORCE control shuts each motor off when its side seals.

Parts in this model

• 30 a breaker: BAL calls for a 30 A self-resetting breaker on 10 AWG in the feed to the control. A weak battery is still the most common cause of a dead slide.
• Room switch: Momentary, center off. It sends 12 V to the control's SW OUT or SW IN terminal. Hold it until the control shuts each motor off.
• Motor 1
• Motor 2
• Cables + standoffs: Four cables per jamb: inside top and bottom pull the room out, outside top and bottom pull it in. Each runs over a jamb pulley to a standoff bracket on the room.

The sequence

1. At rest. The room is in. The outside (In) cables hold it against the wall; the control sleeps after 5 minutes without a switch input.
2. Extend. SW OUT gets 12 V. The control runs both motors; each chain takes up its jamb's inside cables and pays out the outside ones, pulling the room's inner end toward the wall.
3. Full out. The inside standoffs reach the wall and the control turns each motor off. Keep holding the switch until both stop: that's the best seal.
4. Retract. SW IN gets 12 V. Both motors reverse; the outside cables pull the room's outer end back to the wall and the control shuts each motor off as it seals.

Faults you can find with the meter

• Feed breaker open
• Low voltage at the control (8.2 V)
• Switch open
• Right side dead
• Motor runs, its side doesn't move
• Room tips coming in
• Motors not tracking

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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

• In-wall slide 3D wiring model
• Hydraulic leveling 3D wiring model

Codes and specs

• Slides: schwintek
• Lippert in-wall and through-frame slides
• Leveling: ground control
• Lippert 5th wheel hydraulic auto level

On the job

• Slide-outs
• Leveling jacks