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    Posted: 10 Apr 2014 at 5:40pm
When pulling over somewhere just to spend the night, regardless of campground / WallyMart / truck stop, and assuming that you aren't going anywhere else with the TV until you get up and leave the following morning, do you unhitch from the TV or stay attached? If staying attached do you just chock the tires, drop the tongue jack to take some pressure off the TV hitch, level out the 4 corners and disconnect the wiring assembly?
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Posts: 4512 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 10 Apr 2014 at 6:21pm
We sually just block the tires and drop the tongue jack. We also drop the stablizers. Can do it all in just a couple minutes and makes for a good nights sleep.
 
 
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I would think that you should unplug the cable from the TV to the Pod, just to be sure that you don't drain the TV battery.
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This all assumes that your pod is setting relatively level, front to back.
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Posts: 1043 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 11 Apr 2014 at 6:48am
i don't do a thing, just jump in bed and snooze. 
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Posts: 80 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 11 Apr 2014 at 11:18am
we unplug from TV and but stay hitched
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Posts: 633 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 11 Apr 2014 at 1:46pm
We stay hitched. If we are in a campground I will drop the stabilizers but if a parking lot I will leave them up. If I can find a place in a parking lot well away from anyone else I will run my generator but otherwise I will leave it off. If I am overnight parking at a walmat or other lot I try not to look like I am moving in. 
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Posts: 9059 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 11 Apr 2014 at 6:59pm
Originally posted by Hairy Podders

I would think that you should unplug the cable from the TV to the Pod, just to be sure that you don't drain the TV battery.

Done that!  Happily I had my generator and my battery charger on that trip.

As for the thread topic, I do as little as possible if we are boondocking at Walmart, per the unwritten rule.  At most I'll add a block under a tire if it is really unlevel side-side, or drop the tongue jack if it is really unlevel front-back.  No matter where we are I would never unhitch for a quick stop.
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Posts: 767 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 11 Apr 2014 at 8:10pm
For a quick overnight (or a mid-afternoon snooze), I'd only unhitch if levelling was an issue; never when I'm in a Walmart.  Stabilizers stay up, and frankly, I'm not worried about any hitch stress.  And I leave the bargman plugged in.
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If  just overnight,   I do nothing.   Hook up to electric and water (occasionally sewer) and grab my cocktail.
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