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Subject Topic: Powertouch motor mover problem ?
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PersonDaylem94
17/3/2014 at 6:00pm
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Hi everybody

I have come to move my caravan around on my drive way so i can get it all washed and suited up for my trip to cornwall,

I came out this afternoon switched my power touch mover on, it moved my caravan for about 3 seconds and now it has stopped and is just making a clicking noise ? Sounds like a relay or something from inside the power touch control unit under the seat in the van

It has worked fine prior to this ?

Any help as i am due to depart for my trip to cornwall on Friday and i would like to sort my mover out ?

My caravan is a 2004 bailey ranger 510/4 if this helps

Thank you

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PersonDaylem94
17/3/2014 at 6:02pm
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I have also checked all fuses, and all seem fine

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PersonDave11
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Have you Checked that your battery has enough power in it to run the mover?


PersonRob and Tina
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Disengage the motors from the tyres and try the mover again. If they work ok it points to the battery being too low to move the caravan.

I suppose that over the winter the brakes may have become stuck on and that is preventing the mover from working but I'd check the battery first.

Rob


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We had a problem with our power touch mover,phoned them and a guy was very helpful fixed the problem easy


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check the terminals on the motors they corrode over time had to do mine cut them off and fitted new ones then smothered them with vaseline hpoe this helps


PersonDaylem94
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The battery has been charged up for over 48hours , although i will check the voltage of the battery to make sure its not duff, when the motors are disengaged they still don't turn, it seems their is no power going to them at all, their is just a click sound as if its a relay, but i will try cleaning the terminals up as they do have a small amount of rust on them.

Thank you for your suggestions

I will keep you posted when i resolve the problem



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Personmichael
18/3/2014 at 6:31am
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battery flat not enough power. needs a full battery.

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Personbirdman101
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The clicking noise is down to either low battery voltage or over voltage.I have known a battery charger voltage regulator fail, and battery went up to 15.5 volts. Until battery was drained down to 13.5 volts mover only clicked.If your battery is reading OK, check the voltage on the control box input terminals as you may be loosing voltage due to bad connection.


PersonDaylem94
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Hi again,

My mover works!

Ive cut and replaced the wire spade ends and cleaned the terminals to the motors, and wiggled them around and made them tight, and the mover now works!

I should of done that in the first place really, never mind (im only 19 so im abit daft)

Thanks for all your help!



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Thats good news..one possible issue to look out for. Although my pwrtouch mover is less than a year old I will keep that fix in mind

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Maybe joining in this thread a bit late, but as it's 2nd January and the sun is shining thoughts turned to caravanning matters again.
The Powrtouch motor terminals have just push on spade connectors. Not good enough in my view for driving a couple of (what are in effect) starter motors. Maybe I'll solder them on when the weather is warmer. I fitted a Powrtouch Auto Evolution kit to the van last year. Won it for £500 from a dealer on eBay. He'd removed it from part ex'd van as it was only six months old.Paid Powrtouch £40 to transfer the five year warranty. Excellent kit but I wouldn't go for the automatic again by choice. I gave my old manual Powrtouch to son as he was having trouble with sloping driveway despite one of those powerwheel contraptions that fit to the tow hitch.
The lever actuation of the old model is quick and easy, on and off in a twang. The automatic has to be primed with the remote control. When it decides it's connected it takes forever to drive the motors onto the tyres. Mine is slower to engage than a pal with the same kit. To disengage it takes just as long for the gear to retract.
My pal has had several episodes of the battery going flat when his van was halfway across the road and pavement. To release the motors the book says it requires forty backward turns of a miniature socket on a T bar through a hole on the motor casing. Nightmare...and he says it's a helluva lot more than forty turns. Maybe for someone with a bad back (me at the moment) the automatic would suit but the manual is quick and easier to operate.

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Quote:
My pal has had several episodes of the battery going flat when his van was halfway across the road and pavement.


That is my worst nightmare! I have a spare leisure battery charged up at home just in case of such an event! And I take a charger with me if on EHU and charge the connected battery overnight before I come home.

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Surely, any decent battery will take a van many many yards, even up a slope? I have to hitch off, spin the van on its axis, back it up a good 25 yard slope then around the back of the garage.

Not exactly three times around the estate, maybe. But im sure i could bring it back out and do the same again immediately, without a problem. Id be checking the connections on these struggling movers.


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You are correct. I put a voltmeter onto his caravan charging circuit and it was less than twelve volts. Rather than buy a new mains/charger unit he now takes a smart battery charger away and fully charges the battery before the trip home.
Being stuck across the pavement and road with a twenty foot van on a slope into a narrow driveway with a ninety degree turn was not a spiffing experience.

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Quote: Being stuck across the pavement and road with a twenty foot van on a slope into a narrow driveway with a ninety degree turn was not a spiffing experience.

I bet!


Same situation here (but with a smaller van), the reason I had a MM fitted in the first place.

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