So, I unplugged the shore power after the trailer was all hooked up and all landing gear retracted. I put the power cord back in the cargo hold. In that area I keep the cord on (driver side storage area), on the far right as you are looking at the opening. Apparently I bumped a tote, which pushed on the rolled up outdoor carpet, and hit another tote with the sewage hook up stuff) and hit the battery disconnected key, and flipped it off. During trouble shooting, as stupid as it sounds now, I never thought to check that key as I never touched it or was even near it (or so I thought).
Right before I left I noticed the passenger side slide wasn’t retracted quite all the way (about 3/4” left out, and went to put it in - nothing. For some reason my mind went to a fuse, as there was (what seemed to be) a little louder than usual “pop” when I shut the breaker (on the shore power pedestal) off before unplugging.
For some mystery of design engineering Jayco puts the fuse panel facing rewards between slides 3&4 in the kitchen, so there is no access to it if you are bigger than a 12 year old girl (that will be important shortly). My recommendation to Jayco would be to rotate the placement of that panel 90 degrees and have it visible / accessible as soon as you open the door into the rig. Well my daughter was able to fit back there and helped place my hand on the correct fuse and take a picture of the schematic. I switched the 20a fuse to the slide control with the one next to it to see if that was the problem - it wasn’t. But upon helping me return the fuses she miscounted the empty slots and instead of one akipped slot we had two. This was absolutely my fault - she had never done this, but I was working completely blind. (Yes, the unit was unplugged and the batteries were disconnected). Anyway, I later found the disconnect switch was turned, fixed that, and the stabilizers now worked. Now the issue was restricted just to the slides, and I used my phone to take a video of the fuses around the corner and between the slides and noted the “extra” empty slot (which should have had a fuse) was to the slide control module. After I pulled the breaker from the dead slot it was in and out it in the right one, and had a little chuckle at my own folly, everything was back to normal.
Kind of embarrassing and dumb, but hopefully someone can learn from it. I failed to follow one of the key rules of electric trouble shooting - follow the slow of power and assume nothing
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2011 Ford F-350
2020 Jayco Eagle 355 MBQS
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