Know your New RV

Now that you have bought your RV, you're probably more than ready to test it out and hit the road. This sounds great. However, it is wise to examine it before you go on your first long trip.

Learn the Amenities
Your RV should come with an owner's manual. This is your guide to all the great things it will provide. It will explain how your stove, refrigerator, microwave, TV and other amenities work. This will prevent confusion and make your travels much easier.

General RV Knowledge
Let's start with the general knowledge of your RV.
• How much electricity does it take to run everything; 20 amps, 30 amps or 50 amps? You will have to know this n order to plan where you can stay and have the proper hook-ups to match your needs.
• Do you have a generator? What kind of fuel does it use? This is necessary to know so you can plan how long you can stay and where the available dump stations are.

Water Storage
You should have three types of storage for your hygiene needs: clean, hot, and gray water.
• Knowing how to use these is essential to the planning of your trip.
• You cannot allow your gray water to drain onto the ground so knowing how much gray water storage and drainage capacity you have is important. This is extremely unsanitary and illegal in most states as well as National Parks. Knowing your capacity and how to tell when it is getting full is a must and can be located in your owner's manual.

Size of your RV
The outer dimensions will be necessary to know so you can pick out a campsite and reserve it in advance. Reserving a campsite too small happens all too often and sometimes leads to problems associated with overbooking and confusion.

Review your owner's manual to find out where all the shut off and drainage valves in addition to fuse boxes are located. Knowing these things will help you have a great trip. If things go wrong, you will know what to do. The more you know about your RV the better it will serve you.

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