Awning opened then lost power

[Old Harry]

2012 Open Road. I washed the RV then opened the awning to let it dry. Tried to close it and nothing. Checked the power bay for blow fuse but could not find anything that was labeled "awning." Check all fuses anyway and all looked good. Pulled out awning switch and had no power to it, disconnected the wires and did a continuity checks and switch was OK in both directions. Took my lawn mower battery out to RV and did a direct connect to awning motor wires and was able to retract the awning so I know the motor is OK just not getting power.
BTW all wires to the awning are white or yellow which makes tracing those wires so much fun since most of the wires used the coach are white or yellow.

Is there a relay or fuse somewhere buried in the coach I can check out?

Thanks

[Old Harry]

After attaching a signal generator/wire tracer to the awning switch power wire I traced it through the rats nest of white and yellow wires into the power bay. There I found the wire had been spliced into another wire and it changed from yellow to orange then went to a relay. The relay is energized by the parking brake when it is depressed and will then feed power to the awning. I had not set the parking brake.

When I washed the RV I had it in park and parking brake on. After I was done the door was over a puddle of water so without closing the awning I backed up the RV ten feet to dry ground and shut it off. I did not put the parking brake back on since it was in my yard in the grass and level.

Our other rig had a manual awning that would work at anytime I unlocked it and pulled the strap. I’m going to have to get used to these new-fangled power things.

[garykk]

Hey, look on the plus side.....you won’t forget to set the brake next time

[sanda]

Sounds like a great safety idea. When driving down the road it would be really bad to have someone accidently hit the awning switch.