First time TT owner

[Dozagirl]

Hi, we brought our 2018 Rockwood Mini Lite 2506S home on Wednesday. Now what? LOL. We can’t manage to find time to actually use it until April 20th. Looking forward to learning from these forums and get ideas of where to go on great trips. We are first time campers....since we were kids anyway.

[andymil]

Congratulations! You will find a lot of good information on these forums. Don’t hesitate to ask questions.

Good luck and

[Capt. Mike]

Congratulations on the new Mini-Lite.

You don't indicate where you live, and the "about me" section of your profile is missing. If you give us a hint about where you live, you might get more feedback on places to go / things to see.

Enjoy your new Rockwood.

[glsimms]

Do you have a driveway? If so, do some driveway camping and

[doc73]

Originally Posted by glsimms

Do you have a driveway? If so, do some driveway camping and

I second driveway camping. At worse a very close to home campground. This way it you find an issue you cannot get by without your not 300 miles from home..

[aceinspp]

Welcome to the forum and the world of RVing. do as others have suggested and do a camp out in the drive to check to see if all is working as it should. However if you do not have a 30amp available at the house try avoid using the AC as it's designed to operate on a 30 amp circuit. Enjoy and

[Dozagirl]

Thanks for all the comments. They have already been very helpful. We do have it connected to a 30 amp by our shop across the street from our house. We have better tv reception out there than in my house!

[Hugeez]

Welcome and congrats on your purchase

[wmtire]

Congratz on the new RV and welcome aboard.

The below is a copy and paste of useful information, and I usually recommend it to those just starting out. Some of it, you may already know, or may not be applicable to your particular RV. You will be able to filter out what pertains to your situation or not. I would suggest you read the electric threads and energy management first, and then the converter thread. This will help explain your different electrical systems of your RV, and how they operate...as well as what the converter does. The very first link will explain what operates off what system.

You can just peruse at your leisure as you get to know your RV:

Basic electric:

Basic RV Electricity - RV Information (RV Maintenance)

RV Electric

Your very important converter:

RV Converters and Amp Draw - RV Information (RV Maintenance)

Installing a dedicated 30 amp RV outlet at home (Make sure you understand it's 120 volts ONLY):

How to wire a RV 30 amp outlet

12 volt DC:

12 Volt DC Circuit Breaker with Manual Reset

The 12volt Side of Life (Part 1)

Suburban water heater (if applicable to your RV):

Suburban's electric switch and much more

Suburban Water Heater Video Guides

Water Heater bypass/crossover valves:

NO (OR LUKEWARM) HOT WATER -Please read first

And the newest additions to help understand what constitutes a true full cylinder in refilling vs exchanging propane cylinders... as well as how the automatic propane changeover regulator works:

Propane Cylinders (Refilling vs Exchanging)

Propane automatic changeover regulator

Inverters and residential refrigerators in RV's:

http://rveducation101.com/articles/rvinverters.pdf

Bobby