The inhibitor switch should be mounted up high in one corner of the bay door opening. Here is a picture. I only have 3 of these, one mounted in each bay under my LR slide. None associated with my bedroom slide.
If you don't have them someone has removed them.
Either way there should be wires there that you should check to make sure they aren't loose. If the wires aren't connect the slide won't work.
Still thinking this has something to do with the rear of the coach dragging as you were pulling into the drive. A hard impact could have caused something to come loose.
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2002 Monaco Windsor 38 PKD Cummins ISC 350 8.3L
2005 Jeep Grand Cherokee w/5.7 Hemi
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Appreciate the suggestion. I have looked inside every door and have yet to find one of those switches. Regardless I can move that slide with the doors open and always could. I'm back to the relays and just ordered a full set to see if that is it. Not like they are expensive.
I don’t think the lower end coaches (Diplomat and below) have the switches, my Endeavor does not have them.
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Dennis & Debbie Z (Retired) F415847
Pipe Creek, TX
2008 HR Endeavor 40PDQ / 2015 RAM 1500 Toad
I don’t think the lower end coaches (Diplomat and below) have the switches, my Endeavor does not have them.
I just inspected every door and snooped for wires, nothing.
Disconnected the slide harness from the relay board and the one moving slide took notice. You could hear the synch board trying to move it but could not. My hope is the power gear board is ok fine and it's the relays, or the relay board which is available and not that pricey.
Well, I am waiting for parts so might as well cause more damage.
The salesman's switch is blowing the 5 amp fuse every time I use it, (I note there is only one fuse but a second holder) so highly suspect. Doesn't explain why one slide has power but anyway. There is a 50 amp breaker, lower right labeled 50 amp house breaker. This breaker has no continuity.
Can someone please advise me how to safely bypass this horrible contraption ? I mean the whole thing not the 50 amp breaker
Just guessing I can bolt the incoming coach power upper right directly to the outbound to rear fuse panel wire and no more salesman switch ? (the two black cables on the right)
I think this is related to my step, which it turns out - is what got dragged the other night.
I was testing fuse #22 at the main board for continuity to coach power with a multimeter and the step closed. So, obviously I closed a circuit and there must be a safety for the step to prevent you from operating the slides with the step down. I have read of other folks having this exact issue.
Also for the first time there appears to be 12v to the slide relay board, but still the fuses on the board are not hot. Which makes me think some form of safety is still active keeping the slides turned off...except for one. Still leaves bad relays or bad relay board possible but man is this a chase. Maybe I smooshed the step controller or something like that. Steps work fine by the way, they don't retract all the way so I jacked them up to see if that closed the safety, nope.
I was poking around the slide panel, and noticed a couple things. Both plug ins (the slides switches is the large square at the top) and the lower 4 gang plug both have 12v power, ok fine. However both fuse sockets are dead. No power, no continuity to the power.
So, is the ignition relay cutting the board's power or is the board simply dead ? And again, this whole board has a breaker up front, #22. Today again I removed the fuse, checked continuity from the fuse socket to 12v power and the power step retracted. This is somewhat mysterious because what does fuse #22 have to do with the step ? The only thing I can think of is the ignition cutoff. The step is supposed to retract when the ignition is turned on.
I do have parts coming, all the relays and the board. However if it's the ignition cutoff to the slides I am the proud owner of new parts and slides that don't move.
My IGN disable relay is on the board itself. If you have a wiring diagram it may show this, mine does, that's how I know it's there.
There should be a number on the board itself, you may try doing a search using the number and see what you find.
I have only read a couple cases where one of the relays goes bad, not saying it doesn't happen but my thinking is that you issue with the steps being hit while pulling into your drive has my be the culprit.
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Jim J
2002 Monaco Windsor 38 PKD Cummins ISC 350 8.3L
2005 Jeep Grand Cherokee w/5.7 Hemi
Have you looked for grounds and made sure they were making contact?
Ground connections are often shared at various places in our coaches.
I have a ground strip under the hood on the firewall and grounds for
higher current things like the starter etc. on the frame, actually grounds
are all over the place.
Those grounds can cause mysterious problems, maybe problems like yours
I remember a forum member that had various electrical problems that
were transient ( off then on ) but after cleaning all the many grounds
he could find his problems disappeared.
My IGN disable relay is on the board itself. If you have a wiring diagram it may show this, mine does, that's how I know it's there.
There should be a number on the board itself, you may try doing a search using the number and see what you find.
I have only read a couple cases where one of the relays goes bad, not saying it doesn't happen but my thinking is that you issue with the steps being hit while pulling into your drive has my be the culprit.
I am not doubting that in the slightest, question is what to do. The step is operating normally and I couldn't see an obvious issue with the wiring. I could see maybe the brains are permanently damaged and causing a short, particularly considering the strange behavior when troubleshooting. I will order up a new step controller I think. I just got the relays and I will put them on the coach in a bit.
Dunno if I am on to something but the battery cutoff in the main fuse box had a blown 7.5 amp fuse. I replaced it, but nothing has changed. The salesman switch has never done anything for me - meaning on or off everything still works in
the coach 12v wise - not quite sure what that blown fuse hints at.
I am 100% vexed mostly due to once slide working and 3 not. Just makes no sense. It acts like it's the ignition safety but that would stop all 4 slides.
Any advice on how to get that stuck out side in - I probably need to take it to a 12v specialist.
Have you checked any of your other 12v accessaries...my cross over switch to working or inverter problem?
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