Judy -
I love your story! With that great attitude, you are going to have more fun in your TM than you can imagine. I'm pleased that this forum was able to help in some ways.
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We couldn't take off right away as our Durango battery was almost dead, seems the TM drains the car battery when plugged in (I didn't remember, but I did read about that here!) Jumped the battery, brought another battery with us, just in case and we are off!
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Yup. This will get to be really annoying. If you are at all handy, I think you will go to Radio Shack and buy a little $5 relay like this one
http://www.radioshack.com/product/in...ductId=3020762
You will also need a socket or four blade-type crimp quick-disconnect connectors to fit - Radio Shack again.
The relay looks like a black plastic cube, about 1.5 inches on a side, with a screw-down metal tab coming out of one end. Screw it down under the hood somewhere. Wire the contacts in series with the 12-volt feed to the trailer, find a "12-volts when ignition is on" point to operate the coil (you can find several in the fuse box), and voila! You have an isolator, and the problem will never happen again. These relays are also available in a blister pack at a hardware store such as Ace, or at WalMart or any auto supply store, even though they don't show up in the online catalogs. My suggestion - not everyone agrees - is to get a relay, and avoid a diode-type isolator.
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We get to a very nice KOA campground ... hot water heater working - that was a crack up as the dealer had winterized it with some sort of bypass tubing and we had to remove that and hook it back up correctly and the drain pipe was in the way.
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Another one of my pet peeves. There is absolutely no need for a water heater bypass kit in a TM, and they are nothing but an annoyance. Glad to hear you removed it.
Keep coming back! We're glad to have you aboard.
Bill