2016 R-179 Slide Totally Dead

First, thanks Stephen H. for your great visuals of the controller box & always trusty tech help. We had our slider go out 18 months ago, and I’ll tell you our experience: first thing I did is use my smartphone to video the specific error blink-pattern that the controller flashed upon the failure of our slider to push out. I also set the phone on slo-mo to record the pattern that way since the error blink pattern flashes such a quick pattern. That info went to our trusted RV repair shop. The result was that one of the little upper (horizontally-mounted) slider motors had corroded with moisture over time - it was basically barely turning the gear in the L worm track. The other side motor was just about worn out and weak but not corroded. The dealer ordered them in and did the somewhat labor-intensive job of replacing both of the quite-buried drive motors. Unfortunately it was close to $1k for the whole operation but comforting we can go on a long trek with virtually new slider drive motors. Since we live in Western NC mountains there are heavy rain downpour days during a storage summer, and we think eventually moisture intrusion and rust got in behind the rubber gasket and deteriorated the cylindrical slider drive motors. To protect our investment we upgraded our off-season Rpod storage to a slot with an aluminum roofed shelter. We can now skip “stressing out” for a long time about any slider functional issues on a long camping excursion. And, should we ever decide to sell & upgrade, (no current plans) the documentation of new slider drive motors would be a big plus in selling the unit. (‘17 Hood River 179). Hope this helps & sorry about facing this “possibly” 1k maintenance repair. Hope your actual repair is far less!

Yes I disconnected the battery twice and left it off for a while, a minute or less, wondering if I should have left it off longer I will do that when the RV is back on Sunday.  Have motor harnesses coming Wednesday and last resort is to cut into the ottoman.  Really somebody was not using their brain designing this.  Slide has already ripped the fabric on the ottoman too so starting to sag, waiting on the outriggers, mine actually has 4 connectors under the floor but they are like 2 inches long, no real support.  Thanks for the advice I will post again after all is done.  

Okay, this falls under the "let no two RPods be built the same" rule.