Hello. My family and I have joined the MH ranks with the recent purchase of a 2003 Country Coach Allure. We live in the Portland, Oregon area. This has been a learning process for us.......who am I kidding.....for me. My wife and boys think we just show up, get in and go! The pressure of not knowing what I don't know is intimidating but I will take it a day at a time.
Right now I am attempting to get my arms around the basics. Some immediate questions I have relate to:
1) Tips on maintaining/cleaning and dumping of my black water/gray water tanks.
2) My storage center has provisions for shore power. It is 15 amp I believe. Is this enough to do any good for charging my batteries while not using the coach? What do most of you guys do when leaving your coach for 1-3 weeks without use? Currently all I do is turn off the chassis power and turn off the main house switch at the entrance of the coach. So far so good. I am a bit concerned however as yesterday I dropped the coach off at Roadmaster to have my towbar installed. When I picked it up a day and 1/2 later my batteries were drained and I had to connect a small charger to the coach battery to turn over the ignition. The guys at Roadmaster must have left something on. Is this normal - that the batteries would completely drain after 12-16 hours of "something" being left on?
Anyway, sorry for the long post. I look forward to your professional input!
Tpp1971
Right now I am attempting to get my arms around the basics. Some immediate questions I have relate to:
1) Tips on maintaining/cleaning and dumping of my black water/gray water tanks.
2) My storage center has provisions for shore power. It is 15 amp I believe. Is this enough to do any good for charging my batteries while not using the coach? What do most of you guys do when leaving your coach for 1-3 weeks without use? Currently all I do is turn off the chassis power and turn off the main house switch at the entrance of the coach. So far so good. I am a bit concerned however as yesterday I dropped the coach off at Roadmaster to have my towbar installed. When I picked it up a day and 1/2 later my batteries were drained and I had to connect a small charger to the coach battery to turn over the ignition. The guys at Roadmaster must have left something on. Is this normal - that the batteries would completely drain after 12-16 hours of "something" being left on?
Anyway, sorry for the long post. I look forward to your professional input!
Tpp1971