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06-17-2014, 08:11 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Missouri City, The Republic of Texas
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Are you using a power cord reel?
I'd like some input on cord reels. Do you like 'em? How about rolling up the cable when it's cold?
The MOR/ryde says you can roll 50' of 50AMP (Really?) and I'm leaning towards that one but I guess I'm the perpetual skeptic.
All comments are welcome!
BTW, Tweety's has the best price that I've found.
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06-17-2014, 08:28 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: Reno (home base) Winter Eloy, AZ
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Love our manual reel.
Here is a thread on a previous discussion on the Mor/Ryde power chord reel.
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06-17-2014, 09:28 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: New York
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Took the option and love it!! Sooo much easier that the manual rolling then hanging of my last unit. In and out is a breeze. You do loose some basement capacity with the crank handle, but 18 gallon totes stack nicely next to it and allow me to crank it with them in place. Has a tension you can adjust to your liking.
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06-17-2014, 07:42 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2014
Location: Dayton
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Installed one right after we picked up our Pinnacle. Did not have the option installed. Found it a PPLMORTORHOMES Out of Texas. They had the best price I could find and quick shipping. Cannot remember shipping costs but they were not very much.
It makes it very easy to store a 35' 50 amp cord and ther is room left on the reel for more
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2018 Pinnacle 36 KPTS,
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06-17-2014, 09:29 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: North Idaho/Arizona
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I would like to have one but there is not enough room in our TT to store one and still be able to access other stored items.
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06-18-2014, 01:49 AM
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Join Date: May 2014
Location: Fort Waune
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I have one in a new Pinnacle, however, it's the factory install and isn't located in the basement area.
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06-18-2014, 07:55 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by joggerman
I have one in a new Pinnacle, however, it's the factory install and isn't located in the basement area.
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Ahhh...so where is it installed??
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06-18-2014, 09:32 AM
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Member
Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: Bridgeport, WV
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Here's another option for your consideration...............
http://www.pplmotorhomes.com/parts/r...-easy-reel.htm
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06-18-2014, 10:47 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: Pawnee, IL
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Question for those of you who have installed one of these reels in your storage compartment. Did you drill holes in the floor of the compartment, and if so, how did you determine what was underneath the floor before drilling? The underbelly of my fiver is closed, so I have no way of telling whether there are lines of any kind running underneath that area where I would have to mount this reel.
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06-18-2014, 01:14 PM
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Member
Join Date: May 2014
Location: Fort Waune
Posts: 39
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Hi Larry, the new 2015 Pinnacles offer a powered 50 Amp cord reel; one end of the 50 amp cord is attached, or permanently plugged in. It's built in where you typically would have your 50 amp receptacle. There's a door with a lock, you have to open the access door to access to the cord. You manually pull it out and then push the "recoil" button to rewind.
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