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Old 07-25-2006, 09:45 PM   #1
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Default First outing in 2720SL

My wife and I picked up a 2007 TM 2720SL on Saturday and were on the road on Sunday. We thought we were going to be dry camping so I did fill the 20 gal freshwater tank. Pulled the TM with our Jeep Liberty 3.7 and was happy with how well the set up towed. Perfectly adequate power in varied road conditions including maintaining 60 mph going up the Conjeo grade (at 4200 rpm though). We do have an eaz WDH but no sway control. Prodigy brake controller (worked fine - no issues at all).
The dry camping area we went to was full (no reservations allowed so we just took our chances) so we resorted to Plan B which was a full hook up trailer park in Buellton, CA. Very nice.
Setting up the TM (first time) was pretty easy. No surprises. Flipped on the air (105 degrees outside) and it didn't work. I was plugged into shore power but it took me ten minutes to realize I had to flip the breaker switch on the park power to make the juice run (hey, I'm new to this!). Air worked really well after that. Tweaked the a/c vents a little and they pushed air both to the rear and to the front of the TM very effectively.
Started the fridge on propane and it took probably an hour to even confirm that it was getting cold and hours after that before the fridge was useable for its intended purpose. In the future, I'll cool it down before a trip and run on battery (with the refer fan on) on the way to our destination.
Starting the water heater was a bit of a mystery. I did light the burners on the stove before I attempted to use propane for anything including the fridge and the water heater. I did run the faucets, shower, and outside shower before I tried the water heater as I understood that all air was to be expelled from the pipes first to insure that there was water in the heater itself. We did have a water hook up so I was not using the 20 gal internal water tank, nor the water pump. I expected to be lighting a pilot light at the water heater outside but it turned out that just flipping the switch below the sink to the on position was all it took. Hot water was available (propane heated) in fairly short order. The red light to the right of that switch remains a mystery as I am not sure what it is trying to tell me at any given time.
Using the toilet and shower was easy. The chem smell from the toilet is "there" but not bad even in the heat we were camping in. At the end of the trip, I dumped the black water first, then the grey, then filled the toilet again with just water from the shower to the charge mark, flushed to recirculate, and then filled all the way to full, flushed some more, and dumped the toilet again through the sewer hose. Left the toilet empty for the return trip.
Tried to dump the 20 gallon fresh water tank before the return trip so that I would not have to carry that weight. To do this, I opened the petcocks and some water did flow out. But it did not keep flowing. Eventually, I tried starting the water pump and that shoved the water out of the low drain points so I guess that it the way one does it. I then shut off the water pump and continued the drive home.
By the way, at night it was cool enough not to need the air conditioner at all. We opened the windows at the front and back of the TM and ran the fantastic fan (pulling air out of the TM). This worked very well in pulling outside air through the open windows for a cool breeze inside the unit all night.
Stove is stainless steel and has a build in piezio (sp?) electric starter. This work great. Couldn't get the outside patio lights on no matter how many times I flipped the little black switches below them. Next day I discovered the rather clearly marked "patio lights" switch inside the TM next to the door. Voila -- patio lights worked just fine.
We are very pleased with our TM and found that setting up and taking down was easy (ok, we did do a couple of things out of order but very quickly realized our errors and up and down really was easy). All systems that we tried worked as advertised and we are looking forward to our next trip.
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