![]() Matching the earlier versions they are based on the amount of space/height your trailer has available to mount the hardware. There are 3 sizes of 8700 awning hardware available and they can be used with your existing awning barrels if required. While the choice of fabric colours profiles has been reduced to black to white or white to black, the mounting hardware options has stayed the same.Ĭhoice of White or Black When Awning is Stowed Against the Caravan In late 2020 Dometic introduced theĨ700 Awning, the new model replaces both the 83 condensing the Dometic awning range further and enabling the streamlining of components to suit the current (8700) and previous models of A&E Roll Out Awnings (8300, 85) In recent years the 9000 model was made obsolete, and a universal hardware kit was introduced to cover all 3 models. Regardless of the branding the original core range included the following models: 8300, 8500 & 9000. As the company has evolved the awnings have been branded under a variety of names In that time there has been a few key models of Roll-Out awnings. Here is the A&E pdf for replacing awning fabric with a chart on page 7 showing number of turns with,as you said, awning tube 2' from coach: If anyone is interested.Dometic have been suppling RV Awnings to the Australian Caravan Industry for many years now. Yes it is not hard to break a wrist or hand if the installer makes a mistake. With the awning installed and extended just two feet, the spring should already be a tension of 13 turns ? I have a Dometic 9100, which from what i can tell has one spring oposite the motor end. So I just want to be completely clear before I go winding this up. My shirt probably saved me a little as it wound around the end of the mechanism and stopped the rotation early. My wrench slipped off and my hand caught most of the damage. It seems to me that starting at a tension of 13 turns with the awning only extended two feet would make it impossible for it to extend based off the 7 turns I got in the testing.Īnd yes that do bite hard. We got to 7 revolutions and it sounded like the motor probably could not go any further. We pressed the extend button and I counted turns. To test this with no awning attached and zero roller tension. I am not saying you are wrong but I am in the process of replacing mine and have to start from scratch with the spring tension. My math is not that great but based off the distance out (minus the 2 feet you mentioned) and the diameter of the tube, that would be another 6 turns tighter to extend fully. These things bite hard!ġ3 turns when it is just two feet out from the coach wall? That seems like a lot. Dometic sells a tool to assist with winding the spring, but you can do it using "other" tools.Īgain, please be very cautious. ![]() The spring is prewound in a direction that places the awning under tension when retracted, and then tensions further as the awning is deployed. The guidelines for 2 feet out from the coach wall are: ![]() It is easiest to wind it slightly away from the coach wall as it is under less (but still significant) tension and will give you a bit of wiggle room for moving it in or out to align pins, bolts, etc. The spring will injure you badly it it gets away from you. I've done this one time and will say that you need to be very careful and know what you are doing before you start. The number of turns depends on the length of the awning and how far away from the wall it is when you wind it. ![]()
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