New Pod 189 Owner - Event Date: 26 Jan 2018

Chuck thank you for your service. Congrats on the new 190. I agree I think at a minimum I will use the sway bar. It's really a small world! one of my positions in the military was overlooking all training for 68W combat medics at Department of Combat Medical Training DCMT Fort Sam Houston, TX. Again thank you for your service. I greatly appreciate your reply.
Thanks
Tom

Being your first, I would like to make one recommendation that you might want to think about. A T.T. should have an EMS system installed. They "should" but.... They don't. An EMS system is a unit that will protect your camper from bad electrical issues you might encounter in a campground. There is a chance that the campground can have high voltage, low voltage, ungrounded service, or a few other possible issues, that will destroy your campers system. An EMS will guard against this. It's a couple hundred bucks, but, having your T.T. at risk is not really worth it. I believe most here, if not all, will agree that you want to get this, and done soon. Welcome aboard, and thank you for your service. Progressive Industries seems to be the brand everyone gets. EMS is an elec management system. You would want the EMSHW30C. amazon or e-trailer are possible sources.

Agree an EMS system is critical.  We had ours click off twice this past season.  Progressive industries makes a portable version (which costs more) that plugs in at the electric box but do you really want to worry about it getting stolen at a campsite?  Better to get the hard wired.  Not hard to install just needs to get spliced into the AC line before it hits the fuse box.  There are YouTube videos on it.  We paid to have the dealer install it for around $120 if I recall.  Only because we took a trip straight from picking it up and did not want to leave home without it

2wolves,

What is funny is I also have a cousin named Mike Carter, his Dad was Glen and mine was John :) +1 on EMS, mine is the in line type that plugs into the shore power cable. I retired from the Army a year ago, 35 years. Started out in "NAM" as USMC 0311.

Welcome 2wolves from north of 49. Yes an ems system is important. I'm going on my 3rd year with the portable type (this is year #7 with our pod.) I got it after I lost my hot water heater due to a power surge in a thunder storm.... As I said 3rd year with a portable ems. All we do is put a garage bag over the electrical post and people think we are just protecting our plug in case of rain. I also have a chain and lock around the post that is also covered by the garbage bag.