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Old 09-03-2009, 02:57 PM   #1
drdementia
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Question New Owner Questions

Hello, everyone,

Well, DH and I happily bought a TM 2720SL about a month ago and so we're not prospective owners anymore, but this seemed a likely place to post this thread rather than separate questions under battery, interior, electrical, etc. To moderators, please feel free to relocate it if there's a better place to put it.

We've muddled through a lot of the setup and workings of the TM ourselves thanks to this forum and the manuals and reference library--miraculously, we've figured out how to charge and use the recirculating toilet. However, there are a couple things we're cautious about that will likely seem silly to many TM owners, but we've never had a trailer or RV before and many of the manuals and instructions seem to assume some level of knowledge that neither of us has at this point. If anyone can given us some very basic instruction about these few things, I think we'll be good to go.

1. How do you get the on-board water tank to fill up? We've hooked up the shore waterhose and all the faucets work fine, but we don't know how to fill up the big tank that's directly under the kitchen sink, and to know how to stop the water coming in when it's full or does it automatically stop? DUH.

2. There's a "PUMP" switch on the panel in front of the kitchen sink, as well as a "TEST" switch that when it's flipped and held down illuminates ALL the lights. What does that pump switch operate, when should we turn it on, and should it stay on while we're camping? Does it activate the on-board water supply?

3. How do we light the hot water heater? Is that done outside? It seems that I recall some information about connections to the water heater and maybe the refrigerator on the outside but some clear directions on this will really help us from blowing something up or incurring an expensive problem, I think.

4. How do you empty the onboard water tank and the hot water heater before we tear down? We've successfully dumped the toilet and gray water tank previously, if that helps in directions.

5. How do we light and use the furnace? This may too broad a question to answer in this forum, but thought I'd add it in here. too. Because this involves propane, we want to make sure we are especially careful with this process.

6. Speaking of propane, is it as intuitively easy to open the propane as turning on both tanks, like our barbecue at home? Is that all you have to do to get the propane to the stove, etc.?

7. We had no battery power on our first trip. On checking the battery, we found one yellow wire disconnected so we connected it as we were tearing down, but just turning on a light inside the TM (after shore electric was disconnected) yielded nothing. Does the battery recharge only when the TM is being towed (via our towing vehicle's battery)? Is there any other switch somewhere that activates the battery for use inside the TM?

8. These questions may have to be handled by a Winegard dealer. We have a Winegard satellite dish on the roof (former owner never used it so couldn't tell us if the setup worked or not). On the interior wall of the TM right below the dish, there's a box mounted that refers to elevation; despite having TV/DirecTV unit plugged into the Winegard electrical connection on the side of the kitchen sink wall (and shore electrical plugged in and working) we could not get any response/light up/display on that box on the wall when we pushed the button. This was BEFORE we hooked up the unhooked wire on the battery. Does anyone know if that box operates from battery only and when our battery is operational, it should display elevation numbers? Probably need to have a Winegard dealer check it out, but thought I'd ask just in case someone knew.

Whew--lots of questions but sure appreciate anyone's help with them. We love our TM and know we'll appreciate it even more when these things are operational!!! Thanks, everyone.
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