Slides Love Um or Leave Um

[Gary & Peggy Stevens]

We love our salon slide when we camp, because of all the extra room it gives us.

However, this last weekend when we went camping I could not get it to extend out. I checked pretty much the usual things, and pretty much determined the Slide controller was not getting any power.

This slide controller box is on the drivers side bay directly under the slide. It has numerous led lights but the green power light was not lite. The yellow led lights that were on mean the locking pins were operating correctly, but that power must be coming in from some other source.

I checked the 40amp Slide controller fuse in the back of the bus in the engine compartment above the batteries, and it was getting power there, but from what I understand there is possibly another in-line fuse, maybe in the drivers door area, but I could not locate this in-line fuse.

There is also (3) black push-pin type fuses that are just in front of the controller box, which is not getting any power.

Anybody have a suggestion?

I was not in the mood to take pictures of these areas, when I was sweating up a rain cloud trying to diagnose this issue, but I should have. It might have helped with this diagnosis.

Gary S.

[merle&louise]

Gary,

If I remember correctly, you told me your slide was a Prevost slide. Maybe a call to Prevost would help. Hope it is something simple. Maybe Gary or Loc could chime in.

[Sid Tuls]

Hey Gary, I had a similiar problem a few months back when we were in Nashville. I called Prevost and they help me through the whole process step by step, provided that you have Prevost slides. Hope this is of some help.

[garyde]

Hi Gary. The slide won't work if your interlok relay says your not in Nuetral with brake on. You may already have gone thru this step. I have a trouble shooting book, did you get anything with your Coach? Let me know and I can fax or e-mail it to you. Call me if you like 805-8960222 cell.

[Loc]

Gary,

I would love to get a copy of the troubleshooting book. Email is great at loc.mcnew@aig.com.

Loc

[Gary & Peggy Stevens]

Gary De, I sent you a PM. Thanks for the offer of the book. If I can get it from you, I will make Loc a copy too. My address info is in Dales web address map.

Hey I will make a copy for JDUB too, even though he doesn't have a slide, maybe someday ?

Gary S.

[Gary & Peggy Stevens]

I went to the bus today to replace the Vacuum Switch to hopefully make my salon Slide operational again. I recieved the correct part number from Prevost late last week as promised.# 690361

When I removed the old Vacuum switch I noticed a marking on it that didn't match the switch I got. I remembered talking and reading in the parts sheet that their are two switches available, one for High Altitude ( Like where Jim and Chris Live ) and one regular switch, for where I live, Flat lands of Texas.

Well guess which switch I got? Yep, the High Altitude switch.

So I placed a call into Bill Jensen, and within 2 hours he had returned my call, and assured me the High Altitude switch was the best one to use in all cases and it would cause me no problems. I will have to go back to the bus later this week and install the new switch.

Gary S.