no 12 VDC in kitchen slide

[frankyb01]

So, the DW and I pulled the 5er out of storage this past weekend to clean it up and get it ready for the season. We set it up on the Dover AFB famcamp to enjoy a mini weekend away at the same time. Halfway thru Sunday the refrigerator stopped working. I also noticed at the same time the two ceiling lights, also in the slide were not working. The kitchen slide on my alpine contains the frige, microwave, stove, and some cabinets and drawers. So it looks like I have lost all 12 VDC to the slide. All AC functions still work. The fuses in the panel are good, the fuses on the control board behind the frig are also good. I checked for voltage at the terminal block on the back of the frig and there is none. So at this point it looks like I have a wireing issue either in the slide or leading to the slide. Any body ever run into this problem? When I get some warmer weather I am going to start with looking at the flexible wire loom under the slide that feeds power into the slide. I'll post what I find once I figure it out.

[Tbos]

My guess would have been a fuse. I’d verify them with a meter not just a visual. See if you have voltage at the fuse too. Next guess would be the flexible wiring too.

[ChuckS]

I have the Alpine with fridge, microwave in the slide out. On drivers side main slide look up under neath at wire harness in pic I’ve added. You may have an issue inside this harness that’s accessible from outside.

[ChuckS]

Lower right corner of pic is where... I think DC power feeds up from belly into driver side slideout on my Alpine.

[ChuckS]

Lastly before you get into wire harness issues I’d check the DC wires on the power center DC Bus and make sure one of the ground or plus leads for that circuit isn’t loose. After swapping out that DC fuse first

[frankyb01]

Yeah, I'm definitely planning on doing that first just to make sure. As long as I have power at the source I'm going to go to the flexible conduit under the slide next. I'm suspecting I'm going to find a break where everything flexes under the slide, or if not then possible damaged wiring in the slide itself from mice. I hope not, but you never know. I was a generator mechanic in the Air Force so chasing wires is nothing new. It's just a matter of figuring out how keystone decided to route everything on the particular day they built my trailer. From your pictures it looks like they did yours a little different than mine. Your conduit comes out through the coroplast. Mine comes through the floor outside of the frame just forward of the slide.

[ChuckS]

Good luck with your repairs and when done a pic or two of what you found would be golden.

Hope it’s something simple and easy to get to..

[frankyb01]

I can't believe it's taken me this long to get back to everyone on what I found with this problem. "CHUCKS" gets the gold star for guessing what it was. Turned out the screw anchoring the wire to the fuse panel was loose. Turned out it was loose enough I would consider it less than finger tight. I checked the screws for the rest of the fuses and found at least 5 of the 16 were loose as well. As it turns out of the 16 fuses only #16 was unlabeled and of course that was the one that powers the circuit I was having issues with. Key stone strikes again. Oh well at least I finally found it. Hope every one is having an incident free summer.