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Old 04-25-2012, 05:45 AM   #1
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Atwood Electric Level Leg Control Module Mis-Match

For those not aware of this issue: I have an 06 Southwind on a W22 chassis. Recently had an issue with the Atwood electric level leg system whereby one of the legs faulted out (flashing red and green lights) and I smelled burning wires (or something electrical that got very hot). After extensive over the phone troubleshooting with Atwood (Sue is the bomb), turned out to be a bad control motor for that leg (I had driven through some deep water, which got in the control housing, which for some reason then fried the control module under the dash (the burning smell). Atwood now sells just the control motor and gear housing vice having to pay for the entire leg. Problem is when I installed the new control module and pad and followed the reset procedure to the letter, the whole system locked up.....couldn't control anything. I could apply 12VDC to each leg individually through the wiring harness and no problem...all legs worked fine up and down. Two control modules later we discoved the problem: I had the wrong control module. I never did look at the original control module...it was for a Ford Chassis (small print on the module)! Since I had a Workhorse chassis Atwood had sent me the Workhorse control module. Evidently Fleetwood is notrious for using whatever it has on hand at the time for level leg systems (and other systems?) in this case it had a Ford chassis level leg system so that's what it installed on my W22. Got the Ford control module, followed the install procedure and it works great! Only took over a month and half of troubleshooting and shipping back and forth but boy do I know the level leg system now!
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Old 04-25-2012, 07:18 AM   #2
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Why does Atwood have to make a different control module for Ford and Workhorse?
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Why does Atwood have to make a different control module for Ford and Workhorse?
I didn't want to be the 1st to ask ...
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Why does Atwood have to make a different control module for Ford and Workhorse?
Good question. The only difference from what I understand in working with Atwood on this issue is the wiring harness for the e-brake sensor; voltage comes in on different pins to the control module. But the actual control pad seemed to work fine with either module. And like I stated, it will say "workhorse" or "ford" right on the top of the control module.
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