eric james
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garysol wrote:RRUGG wrote:The above is NOT how it's done with a power awning.
Here is a picture of my power awning arms. You will notice the black knob on the lower support arm. Loosen that knob and pull down on the awning then tighten it back up when done.
My awning is the same style. Just pull down on it and crank those little knobs tight.
I use "hold-awns" at the campground and can force the tilt with them (and I have wind protection).
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1mtnman wrote:APT wrote:My Colorado Carefree power awning arms are not adjustable. I used a ladder to clean mine this past fall. My friends Dometic power awing has adjustable arms to angle it.
X2 what a joke the Carefree awning I have on my 2009 Jayco is. Almost totally useless and the way it dumps rain was designed by a morbid engineer.
Nailed it. Only good part about the awning is the electric part.
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not very user friendly
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I have a spritnter with electric awning and NO KNOBS on mine! No way to lower it.
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goducks10 wrote:1mtnman wrote:APT wrote:My Colorado Carefree power awning arms are not adjustable. I used a ladder to clean mine this past fall. My friends Dometic power awing has adjustable arms to angle it.
X2 what a joke the Carefree awning I have on my 2009 Jayco is. Almost totally useless and the way it dumps rain was designed by a morbid engineer.
Nailed it. Only good part about the awning is the electric part.
Yep the carefree and dometic products are totally different. Our old trailer had the carefree electric with no way to adjust the flat pitch. Our new TT has the dometic/A&E product and I can adjust it probably 18" or more vertically.
From what I understand some of the earlier dometic's did not have the adjustable arms, but many forks were able to get them at no cost or a small cost.
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eric james wrote:I use "hold-awns" at the campground and can force the tilt with them (and I have wind protection).
What is the "wind protection"?
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texasclarks
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garysol wrote:RRUGG wrote:The above is NOT how it's done with a power awning.
Here is a picture of my power awning arms. You will notice the black knob on the lower support arm. Loosen that knob and pull down on the awning then tighten it back up when done.
Our TT has the same, but it was an "after the fact" addition to our awning. I contacted the seller of our TT and they shipped me the piece to make it adjustable. Ours is a Carefree (I believe), and it was not difficult to retrofit, but w/out the knob there was no way to adjust the one side. Now we can just adjust the ONE side so water can drain w/out activating the 'auto dump'.
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RRUGG
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Our power awning does NOT have arms as shown in the photos nor does it have knobs. Don't remember the brand but it came with our 2011 Kodiak from the factory. The arms have 4 pieces each and there is a parallelogram formed. Both arms this way.
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Mine comes down very easily by pushing in the spring loaded buttons marked with an arrow. Yes, it does come out flat, but lowering it is so simple that my 2 yo can do it. lol. JH
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Mine, while not as pitched as my manual awning on the old trailer, still is pitched. It's not flat like the one in the post above.
We just bought a lightweight ladder that we keep in the RV. You always have need for one.
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