Operating the Accu-Slide Cable Slide Room
Dave SolbergDescription
If you’re like us, you could always use more space in your RV, especially in the bedroom. Most RVs aren’t known for their overly spacious sleeping quarters, but thanks to advancements in slide room technology, manufacturers offer newer and better ways to get that little bit extra room to move around.
The majority of RVs nowadays come equipped with some form of main cabin slideout that allows travelers to maximize their living space when they arrive at their destination. However, more recently manufacturers have developed a way to add space in the bedroom. It’s called the Accu-Slide cable slide room, and it’s a must-have for all extended-stay RVers.
Design and operation of the Accu-Slide
Built directly into your bedroom’s wardrobe, the Accu-Slide maximizes space while remaining entirely inconspicuous. Expert Dave Solberg explains how its motorized mechanism is hidden in the structure of the wardrobe, and demonstrates what it looks like when you retract and detract the slideout.
Thanks to a simple setup of cable pulleys and chain gears, the room can be pushed out and pulled in in a matter of seconds. And because it gets its juice from the house 12-volt battery, the Accu-Slide doesn’t need any special rig or cumbersome battery mounting. Plus, Dave talks about the all-important seals and flanges that, respectively, give you an airtight border and clean off the top of the slideout so you don’t need to do much maintenance. With the Accu-Slide cable slide room, you’ll enjoy plenty of extra space without any hassle!
A lot of manufacturers in the smaller slide slide, like this wardrobe slide in our 5th wheel, will use a cable slide, commonly referred to by Accu-Slide, or BAL, and it simply operates with a motor that's up on the top here. This motor runs off the 12 volt house battery system, so you have to have 12 volts coming out of your batteries. It's just a gear at the top, and it'll pull these chains, and then, in turn, pull the cable. So on the side of the flange here, we have a cable on the top and on the bottom that's hooked to the inside one here, same thing on the outside flange, so it's going to pull the room in, pull the room out, but it's going to run off of rollers on the bottom side of this. So, we'll simply have Steve hit the retract button, we'll bring it in, we'll see how those cables pull.
Okay, and then we'll do the same thing going out. Runs off the rollers on the bottom, cables with the pulleys, pull the unit all the way in, nice and flush. And then it has a seal on the inside and the outside, and a flange that's going to wipe that room off. So, runs very quietly, very quick, gives you a lot of extra room in the bedroom.
how do I manualy move a acuslide out gear is stuck wont move at all its a wordrobe slide don't have room above to work
I, too (like "Tab") was looking to find out what maintenance is required for the cable slide-out system. Do you have any information on that?
1995 Catalina Coachman 5th wheel 278 RK , motor runs but room doesn't move??
Video falls short of description. Does not cover any maintenance items nor how to move the slide out if power goes out. A 1:28 second video cannot possibly cover the subject matter necessary in covering how to operate and maintain a accu-slide cable slide room.