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[dkoldman]

Originally Posted by ducksface

You can't just tell the people so close to you, you intimately travel with them
'don't touch that switch?'

For now, I put a post it sticky note over the panel saying heater winterized Do not turn water heater on.

When you looked for a circuit breaker, did you find one? I need to check manual to see if I can find , this is great idea; if I turn off the entire LP gas heater system to effectively render hot water switch useless

It sorta sounds like you're going to have people without any regard for you staying in your rv.
Are you going to airbnb it during the superbowl or something similar? No, no way I rent out our new RV. It is mine Since I have stored in my driveway, I am in and out of quite a bit. I don't think anybody would flip that switch, but note I said I don't "think". Heck I may even forget as I am the one most likely to flip to switch. My wife is still scared to shut door. It keeps opening on her when she is trying to close on inside. I finally figure out why. She has tendency to lift up on the inside handle; so the latch is open when it makes contact and opens back up.

Late edit:
OK, I found an instance where I might understand.
Are you going to use it as extra living space during the holidays for overflow guests? We're going to to do this.

Think of it as a man cave outside our garage now. During holidays and when we travel, I will likely turn off the bypass and allow water to flow back to water heater tank. My only objective is take the potential for any damage to hot water heater outside the equation when it is in my driveway when I know I don't have any real need for. At the same time, I still will have flowing water, but no hot water. If temperatures drop to 38 degrees or so, I can easily run furnace to keep the other waterlines warm or simply drain all of the water lines. If I drain the full fresh water tank, I could be dumping as much as 70 gallons.

If I were in Michigan and knew I would not use RV at all until next Spring this would not be in play. But I am in Dallas and we may go below 32 degrees maybe 5 times a year, and almost never below 27. But even if I were to drain everything, someone could still turn the water heater on by mistake. I was just surprise that the winterization procedure did not have a plan for that scenario as to me it (burning up heating element) may be more disastrous than frozen water line in water heater?

BTW; I dumped for the first time yesterday with my new Camco Rhino Flex. When I finished; I finally got a chance to use that San T Flush!!!! Oh the joy I ran it until all the water was clear, and my wife said what are we waiting on now