Shamrock hybrid slide out

[josiescott]

Hi My family is going for our first state campground no water no elec. I have a slideout but with no elec was wondering if anyone had any experience with manually extending it .I watched some videos and it showed pretty easily done with a wrench and crawling underneath it seemed easy but I am not even sure where the mechanism would be .Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks BScott

[Burnt_Marshmall]

Check the fuse for your slide out motor. The higher the amperage, the more 'juice' it will use. My guess is its a small, under powered motor hooked to a worm gear that will give it tremendous torque and use very little current.

On my Roo the bolt is attached to the center of the motor case on the end. It's fairly large maybe over 3/4" so you'll want to check. If you go that route, be ready to turn that thing a long time.

[bikendan]

josiescott wrote:
I'm going to test that out. I read it takes a lot of battery juice.

not as much as running the furnace overnight. unless you have low batteries, you should be able to run the slide out without using too much battery power.
of course, if you only have one battery and don't conserve power, you could end up with a dead battery after one night.

if you plan of doing more dry camping, you need to go to a dual battery setup.
we dry camp 90 percent of the time so we have the dual batteries plus a Honda 2000i generator.

plus it would help if you posted year/make/model of hybrid, since you don't have it listed in your sig line.
makes a difference in how to manually put the slide in.

[All_I_could_aff]

Extend it as soon as you arrive, with tow vehicle still attached and running so alternator provides a bit of the power to run the slide.

When you leave camp, wait to pull in slide til wiring to tow vehicle is attached, and running

[josiescott]

I'm going to test that out. I read it takes a lot of battery juice.

[USAFBILL]

Your slide operation will still work with your on board batteries

[2oldman]

Slides aren't run by battery in hybrids?