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    Lippert techs have had some interesting comments. For me too high isn't a problem with goosebox and ball.
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    Quote Originally Posted by orbsah View Post
    One more thing…. I had a chat with a Lippert tech last week and he said that sometimes the auto level function can go a little wonky when connected to shore power. That didn’t make sense to me but that’s what he said.

    (I’m rarely connected to shore power when leveling)
    Doesn't make much sense to me either but whatever. Our process developed by us over the last couple years, is once we get the 5er set in the site and leveled side to side using a bubble level on the floor just inside the door. Wheels chocked. Our process starts with unplugging the 7 way truck power cord, we always connect to shore power even before putting down the landing gear, it's just our process. This gets the power monitor on and checks for proper site power, gets the fridge on and the ACs on so things can be cooling down. Being on shore power before starting the unhitching or hitching process gives the system a little more oomph and doesn't rely strictly on just the battery. Then we drop the landing gear and unhook. Soon as the truck is pulled away the Wife hits the auto level and let it do it's thing. Once auto leveled the Wife puts out the slides.

    When reconnecting, still on shore power, with slides in, first thing Wife hits on the Ground Control 3.0 controller menu is Auto Retract Rear Jacks, this brings up the rear and mid jacks. I'll start backing up the truck to the pin and the wife uses the front button on the controller to raise the landing gear so that the 5er pin plate is a little lower than the B&W hitch plate. As I back in to hitch the 5er pin plate rides into and up over the B&W hitch plate and locks in. We have only used the Auto Reconnect feature a couple of times in over 2 years since owning the 5er. It just not a feature we use.

    It's just one of those things, once you've got a system or process that works for you, that's what you go with.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Steven@147 View Post

    When reconnecting, still on shore power, with slides in, first thing Wife hits on the Ground Control 3.0 controller menu is Auto Retract Rear Jacks, this brings up the rear and mid jacks.
    I wish I had the Auto Retract Rear Jacks option. My options are retract all and hitch height.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ajg617 View Post
    I wish I had the Auto Retract Rear Jacks option. My options are retract all and hitch height.
    Pressing hitch height does retract all the rear jacks as part of the process. At least that's how it's worked for me.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ajg617 View Post
    I wish I had the Auto Retract Rear Jacks option. My options are retract all and hitch height.
    Ours is probably just a difference version of the Ground Control from yours. They probably thought they made it better by combining functions.
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    Quote Originally Posted by daltontrio View Post
    @ajg617I asked the Lippert technician at the National Rally this year and his response was “I wish they would remove the return to hitch height function, never works correctly”.
    Wow. Seems to me they need better engineers. $.02

    Quote Originally Posted by orbsah View Post
    One more thing…. I had a chat with a Lippert tech last week and he said that sometimes the auto level function can go a little wonky when connected to shore power. That didn’t make sense to me but that’s what he said.
    I always connect to shore power before leveling and stay connected when returning to hitch height. I hate tasking my battery to run all that stuff and slides and whatnot when setting up or tearing down. Sounds to me that if the leveling system has more issues when on shore power than on battery alone that the power conditioning in the leveling system is crap. If it works on purely DC power fine but is sketchy on inverter power, then it is possible the power to the leveling system may be carrying some noise or frequencies from the inverter that mess with it. I wonder if a nice filter where the leveling system gets its power from would clean the power up enough to make it work better?

    If anyone has an oscilloscope around, you might try looking at the leveling system power on battery and on inverter and see what the difference looks like.
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    Meh. Find a nice level spot and unhitch your 5er. Take a tape and measure distance to the pad from the bottom of your king pin. From then on, raise the rears and adjust the height to your measurements, back right up and lock it in. The auto hitch height is usually wrong and you end up fiddling with it anyway. My 2c
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