Exterior Awning replacement on 2014 17.56.1

[Ben Stanford]

My awning has perished on each end of the material so was looking to change the material on my awning until I realised I had also broken the unroll/roll up switch on the end of the barrel. So upon this discovery I decided to replace the whole awning, barrel and all. This brought me to my next dilemma as I have the Carefree Awning with the LED strip included. I have since purchased the correct replacement with the same LED set up, but I am looking for advice from anyone here on where the wiring runs that is already set up on the awning, so that I can connect straight into it. Do I need to trace the wire to run the new cable inside, or should I just cut and join the new wire on outside the van solder them up and be happy with that?

Any advice greatly appreciated.
Thanks Ben

 

[BJM]

Has the new awning got the wire already in the hem ,if so I would solder at the top end where original wire came out ,cover soldered wires with heatshrink.Be hard tracing wire in the van walls.

 

[Presto]

Chop the old one down the bottom and pull some excess up top and chop that off, it will give you enough length to re solder/heatshrink the new piece and pull back inside the stitching.