Bimini control problem

Crow3051

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Jul 23, 2023
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When it gets hot enough out, my 2022 20’ Fishing Barge DLX bimini won’t respond in the up or fown modes. Sometimes just up won’t work, sometimes just down. I can’t find any information online about this problem. Anyone having this issue?
 

captmello

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never heard of an electric Bimini. if it's only a year old, I'd call the dealer and see if there's a warrantee.
 

Crow3051

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2022 Sun Tracker has electric Bimini. Ever since covid, customer service has been crap. I did have the boat in for 100 hour service and they said it checked out. Got the boat home and it did not work. Found a utube video with the problem. Guy put a cover over the switch preventing it from getting hot. I tried it and it worked.
 

brodmann

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So basically if it's hot enough to need the top up, it's probably too hot for the switch to work properly?!?! What an amazing design!!
 

Crow3051

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I live in Florida on a fresh water canal system. Some places i have to lower the cover to get under a bridge. There’s no way to just manually lower it w/o basically taking it apart. Now I’m worried it might not come back up or if i go under, it might not go down to get back thru!
 

JohnSz

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I have a '22 PB 22DLX with the power bimini. While I haven't had the switch issue yet, there is a smart phone SureShade app to bypass the switch.
 
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