How To Manually Open A Dometic Power Awning

This is a tutorial on the various ways to manually override your awning if the motor or electricity goes out.

How to manually open a dometic power awning.

If the button is released the awning will stop. Power patio awning user s guide operating instructions to open awning. Those are the only 2 ways to retract the awning. Press and hold the extend button and the awning will au tomatically open.

I am having an issue where my dometic power awning won t retract. This video shows how to open and close an rv awning made by a e dometic. Remote rocker switch a. Maintain button depressed until awning is fully extended then re lease.

Maintain a verify valance is in correct position and adjust if necessary. If the awning wont even turn by hand with that screw removed then only other thing you can do is apply power directly to the motor. In this informative rv 101 video mark polk with rv education demonstrates the features and benefits of the weatherpro awnings by dometic. Push the travel lock on the side of the arm up.

There will be screw that goes into the roller from the motor. There will be cap in front end which you have to remove to access the rotating hole. See if that will make the motor turn. Make sure screw is back in first.

If you have any questions please call us at 844. Pinch hazard. Yes the camera work isn t the greatest but my 5 year old daughter was the camera gir. You have to rotate it using a drill to make the awning extend or retract.

In some cases the manual override will be near the motorhome end. Turn the adjustment lock knob on the back of the awning arm counterclockwise to loosen it. It could be the motor itself has had an internal failure and something has jammed up. Thanks for watching please hit that subscribe button for more rving videos.

Failure toggle down retract briefly on awning switch until valance is in correct position. The other end is under spring tension if you remove. How to open an a e awning. Just locate the motor and remove the cap.