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The Brews Cruise · 06-03-2023, 11:18 AM

2020 Ventana. Lost power to Co-Pilot chair. All connections check good. I can't find any fuses. Panel legend shows B1 breaker for pilot and breaker B2 for Co-Pilot chair. B1 looks like a self reset breaker with no way to manually reset. Breaker B2 doesn't exist. Foot rest is fully extended. I need to retract foot rest to be able to turn seat to face forward
before we travel tomorrow. Any ideas?

Capt. Bill · 06-03-2023, 11:24 AM

its most likely in your wiring connection under the chair- sometimes they pull loose when rotating the seat, Get under there- find it- disconnect & reconnect it . There should be a fuse or breaker in your coach electrical panels - 1st bay from the front on the driver's side.

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Capt. Bill · 06-03-2023, 11:43 AM

Also check each wire on both sides of the connector to ensure they are still seated tightly into the connector. Repeated rotating of the seat- especially if its not done 180 one direction & back 180 the other direction will stretch the wires causing them to come loose from the connector.

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The Brews Cruise · 06-03-2023, 07:13 PM

Thanks Capt. Bill, Problem solved. As you stated, fuses for the pilot and co-pilot chair are in the panel in the 1st bay on the driver's side. Freightliner fuse panels, 20A fuse blown. Apparently the footrest mechanism was in a bind and stalled the motor. Freightliner panel index shows 30A fuse for seat power, but both seats have 20A fuse. Assuming that Newmar has a reason for these to be 20A, I replaced with a 20A fuse. All seat functions working OK now.

GW4607 · 06-03-2023, 08:17 PM

Ken normally what will happen is a wire gets pinched in the chair frame. That will blow a 20 amp fuse. Typically a stalled motor would not blow a 20 amp fuse. May never show up again….. but then again.

mahdi · 06-03-2023, 09:21 PM

I had a similar thing happen. The self resetting fuse was blown. Replaced with a 30 amp fuse and all worked well. Got 2 30 amp self resetting fuses one to replace the regular 30 amp I had used and the other a spare. Newmar had a recall and they removed the 30 amp self resetting fuses with regular 30 amp fuses. I think this was a safety issues. I remember reading on this forum a captain's seat catching fire.

VentanaOdyssey · 06-04-2023, 10:35 AM

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Originally Posted by The Brews Cruise

2020 Ventana. Lost power to Co-Pilot chair. All connections check good. I can't find any fuses. Panel legend shows B1 breaker for pilot and breaker B2 for Co-Pilot chair. B1 looks like a self reset breaker with no way to manually reset. Breaker B2 doesn't exist. Foot rest is fully extended. I need to retract foot rest to be able to turn seat to face forward
before we travel tomorrow. Any ideas?

Not sure what year your coach is but there is a Newmar recall on the wiring under the driver and passenger seats. See attached.

The Brews Cruise · 06-05-2023, 07:51 PM

Thanks @GW4607, @mahdi, @VentanaOdyssey. I'll check the wiring more closely, and follow up on the Newmar recall. The wiring under the seat looks like a jumble, and could easily be the problem of a pinched/shorted wire.