You asked for 'em Electric awning pics (yawn)

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ChopperBill

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• Sep 10, 2007

• #1

Wired up the awning, not bad but time consuming to do it right. I tried to run wired through the over hang but finally gave up in frustration. Ran them under the over hang and into the propane compartment and to the front closet door. Found some vinyl channel to cover up the wiring. Made up a wiring harness to keep it all together. Put the switch where the kitchen-living room switch was and moved that to the side wall. Its the only one that has a pitch adjustment to my knowledge and work very well. Motor is so quite you can barely hear it run.

 

Tom of Ypsi

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• Sep 10, 2007

• #2

ChopperBill, I see nothing, is it you or me?

 

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ChopperBill

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• Sep 10, 2007

• #3

Tom it was me. I keep trying to do the thumb nail trick but it never seem to work from Picture Trail. Got them on there full size if some one want to thumb them the can give it a whirl.

 

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jbeletti

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• Sep 10, 2007

• #4

Looks nice CB.

Jim

 

Tom of Ypsi

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• Sep 10, 2007

• #5

Nice job. It looks sturdier than the ones put on by Heartland. Would love to do that on my slide but I will wait for a while.

 

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ChopperBill

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• Sep 10, 2007

• #6

I for got to mention that the make the same awning with a rechargeable battery that you can just operate from the switch outside the camper. Might be the deal for someone that doesn't want to mess with wiring.

 

Loco

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• Sep 10, 2007

• #7

There nothing wrong with the way you ran the wiring LOOKs good

 

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ChopperBill

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• Sep 10, 2007

• #8

Thanks Loco! Coming from the MASTER re-builder that is a pretty good complement!

 

Gary Steeves

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• Sep 10, 2007

• #9

Chopper, How did you "snake" the wiring into the cabinet to the switch ? I like where you put it. Great looking job !!!

 

v92c

Texan

• Sep 10, 2007

• #10

CB
Looks good. What brand is the awning?

Tony

 

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ChopperBill

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• Sep 10, 2007

• #11

Gary Steeves said:

Chopper, How did you "snake" the wiring into the cabinet to the switch ? I like where you put it. Great looking job !!!

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Gary if you go into the toilet room and take the cabinet, knick knack shelf or what ever it is called out you can see clear to the basement. Only 4 screw and a minutes worth of work. You can see the whole mess of wiring down there.

 

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ChopperBill

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• Sep 10, 2007

• #12

v92c said:

CB
Looks good. What brand is the awning?

Tony

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Tony, it is the Carefree Eclipse model.

 

Uncle Rog

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• Sep 11, 2007

• #13

Chopper, does it retract with a wind sensor if it picks up a bunch?

 

Gary Steeves

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• Sep 11, 2007

• #14

CB Thanks for the info.. !

Gary

 

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ChopperBill

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• Sep 11, 2007

• #15

Uncle Rog said:

Chopper, does it retract with a wind sensor if it picks up a bunch?

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Rog they make an option for that. Just a shade fancy for us. (have read stories where they didnt work that well anyway) Whole purpose of the electric awning was so I could move it in and out easily and have no tie downs to deal with. When we leave it will come in and when we get back we can put it out with no screwing around. Renee got the grasp of pushing the button for in and out real fast! After years with the regular awning she still didnt like to mess with it. Another neat part is you can set the pitch down on one side and still run it in and out with out evening them up.
on edit: the gas springs retract if it gets heavy with rain water and after it dumps it goes back to normal.

 

Uncle Rog

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• Sep 11, 2007

• #16

That is great Chopper......one less thing to have to mess with!