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Pilot chair seat control?

Seat adjustment has been inoperative.  I reconnected a loose wire under the seat (just upstream from the two wire quick-connect)  I have lifted and looked under the dash at the main fuse panels and also checked to see if a circuit breaker controlled the seats - but can find nothing specific to the seat.
  I presume that there is a blown fuse somewhere but can't find one for seats.  Any suggestions as to how to solve this little problem?

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Reply #1 –
If you have a voltmeter make sure your getting power to the seat.

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Reply #2 –
Believe fuse for seat is in cargo compartment behind fiberglass panel.

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Reply #3 –
No fuses found behind the fiberglass panel in cargo hold. All fuses under the dash are good.  I wish I could figure out where the wires go/come from that bring power to the wiring harness - they disappear under the carpeting on the seat box and I don't know if I need to start cutting carpet away to determine their route.  We have been parked for six months so this low priority problem is about to become high priority.

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Reply #4 –
I believe the wires run behind the couch, there be a bunch of stuff that runs behind the couch to the kitchen cabinet. Easy to check out pull out the drawer under the driver's seat and you will see where stuff goes. I wonder if the power is supplied via the panel with the resettable fuses in the big bay.

Roland

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Reply #6 –
If you have your coach books look at the wiring diagram. Find the seat then look at the wire route and see where it goes.

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Reply #7 –
One of the problems I have had with the pilot seats is that the wires are loose in the plug. Not that the plug itself is loose but the wires lose contact when the seat is rotated, not enough to visually see but just enough to break contact.

Roland.

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Reply #8 –
I would recommend that you don't use a volt meter or a test light for the power seat circuit, they don't actually put anywhere near enough load on the circuit. The meter will show voltage and the test light will light with just one strand of wire connected but the seat won't work. Use an old headlight on the High beam side. Likely you have the same connector to the controls small loops that contact a fairly solid pin. Make sure this is clean and the loops haven't stretched.

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Reply #9 –
I put a cable tie around the plug and socket for the pilot chair. That solved the connection problem.

Jim

2002 U320 42'
 

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Reply #10 –
You can reach up behind the control and push the rather large plug in while operating the control with your other hand. If that works you can do the same as Jim & I did. Put a zip tie on it. Not pretty but it works.

I also had an issue with the main power line coming in. It went thru the top of the pedestal, down the side of the drawer in the pedestal. I found that the power wire wasn't secured very well and had been abused by the metal slides on the drawer. Pulled the drawer and put in a new wire secured away from the drawer slide. No trouble since.

see ya
ken