[SteveC7010]

Originally Posted by 440justin

My passport has a sticker by the slide switch saying the battery must be installed to operate the slide. Now that said over the winter when we were first looking at the passport the dealer had one in the showroom with no battery and we were able to run the slide in and out. I guess it will depend how big your converter is.

It's possible that there may have been an extra power supply tucked out of sight for the showroom model. Those units sit there all day long with many of the lights on and other things operating intermittently. I'm fairly certain that repeated operation of the slides without the battery could cause issues with the standard convertor.