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Originally Posted by TxTig
I’m a little nervous to use my motor-driven awning (no wind sensor). When it’s fully extended, it frequently hesitates and stops when I first try to retract it. I have to rock it back and forth (extend/retract) a few times to get it to fully retract. I’m afraid it’s going to eventually get stuck in the extended position. Anybody else have this problem?
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Depending on the brand there might be a manual retract feature and, as with slides, the time to figure out how to do it is on a nice day when you’ve got time. You’ll be glad you did when something fails on a rainy day when you need to be somewhere else. On my Freedom Elite the awning had real difficulty retracting on its own. Never actually failed but I worried about it. I found that it helped a lot to do it with shore power connected or the engine running. The little bit of extra voltage on the 12V system made the difference.