Rv Electric Steps Not Working

The step motor is likely bad and needs to be replaced.

Rv electric steps not working.

Be careful where you place your hands and arms when reconnecting plugs on the step. It works on two switches out and in. There s nothing worse than an electrical problem to bring your rv road trip adventure to a halt. Well it s usually not the step.

When it is in the off position the steps will not go in or out automatically. The most obvious source of the problem is that you have inadvertently hit a switch that turns off the automatic steps. Make sure you re not in the way of the step mechanism. The power supply that your parked rv is plugged into can cause problems if it is supplying too much or too little power fluctuates is not grounded correctly or its connector is corroded.

Even the new ones have trouble. Depending on the system you have there could be a fuse in the main power panel or in the wiring between the battery and step controller or motor. For instance in our rv there is a toggle switch near the entry door that allows us to turn off the automatic steps. If a positive or negative voltage is present when the door switch is activated then the step motor is getting power but not working.

If your rv uses door sensors to control step motion you could have an issue with the sensors being blocked out of alignment. They were stuck in the out posit. A refrigerator working appliances lights and other machinery run on electricity and when electrical problems arise you need to know how to troubleshoot them. Sometimes they work sometimes they don t.

I believe it also works off a remote control. The electric step on my motor home is not working. While visiting a fellow rver friend of mine recently i helped him out by diagnosing and fixing his motorhome entrance steps. It s usually the power plug that supplies power t.

When the ignition is on it retracts. I have had the step pulled apart and there is nothing mechanically wrong.