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1320quick
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Aug 31, 2013

Automatic battery disconnect???

I just went to pick up my 5th wheel from the dealership as it's been there for a couple of weeks for warranty work. When I backed up to it to hook up, the landing gear needed to go up a few inches to line up with the hitch. No problem, I hit the ext/ret button and nothing. No movement, no noise, nothing. The service person comes and and plugs the plug into my truck and magically it works. She asked if I had a battery disconnect and to my knowledge I don't but after plugging in the 7 prong RV plug to the truck once, now even disconnected from the truck everything works as expected including the landing gear. What am I missing? Is it possible there is an automatic battery disconnect or something along those lines that if it's sitting unused for a couple of weeks that it disconnects to save the battery??? This is on a 2014 Heartland Sundance XLT.