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#1
You may have the charging fuse between the truck and camper charger blown. Ours did that a lot when using the jacks without shore power. Anyway, I found the fuse, of all places, under the sink right to the left of the charger electrical panel. It was high in the under sink cabinet. There was no mention of the fuse placement in any manual I could find. So much of these campers were excellent, and then you find some bonehead construction detail. It was a 30 amp in a single fuse holder, like an afterthought.
#2
We have a 2013 Camplite 10'. There is no problem sleeping in cabover on jacks, wiggles a little, but no biggie. Just keeping the camper low on the ground is the way to go and make sure jacks are all fairly even in taking the weight.
#3
I have the manual, and it is fairly useless. Did you get any of the furnace, hot water heater, etc. manuals when you got the camper. They are way better than what is in the manual. The biggest thing to deal with, is if you use the electric jacks, make sure you are plugged in to shore power. I think it was made to run off the battery, even if you are running your truck. Those jacks pull a lot of electricity.  There is a 20 amp fuse under the sink, on the right side, on the top of the side panel. When the truck is charging the camper battery, as it did for me, it will melt the fuse. There was no mention of it in the manual. I put a second battery in last year to help the jacks, in case I ever run them without shore power available, and to not run the single battery down when camping in the winter with the furnace on, and not plugged in.  I also put in a 30 amp fuse, just in case, and have a supply of them in the old tool box. Took me a week of cruising the forums to find where they hid the fuse. The other problem was with the interior lights popping the fuses. I covered that in a previous post on this site. If you would like a copy of the manual, I can make one and send it to you in an email. I will check in the members section,  if I can get your address thru this site.
#4
There is a 20 amp fuse under the sink, on the right side of the cabinet, toward the top. It is for the vehicle to recharge the camper battery. If you use your jacks without being plugged into 110, it is problematic that the fuse will burn out when you attach to the truck or back to the 110. I have never seen anything in the manual that tells people about it.
#5
I have a 2013 LL truck camper that had an electrical problem with the lights last week. Go to the Livinlite truck camper page and look up my post on what the problem was and how I fixed it.
#6
I have a 2013 LivinLite 10 which started blowing fuses on the overhead lights while camping this weekend. I checked in the back of the fuse/converter for any melted wires or places where they were touching. Nothing. So this afternoon I removed the panels that conceal the electrical wiring, above the back door, and the 2 panels against the ceiling in the bathroom. I found 2 places where the insulation around one of the yellow wires had been pinched and cut by pressure of the wire against the aluminum bathroom walls. One was where the yellow primary went a right angle to the back wall, which was very tight, and the other was where the wires went thru the bathroom wall into the kitchen cabinet. The wire was pinched against the aluminum wall in 2 places. I wrapped the wires with gorilla tape, where they went around the corner and thru the wall. The wiring had been pretty sloppy taped against the wall, so I gorilla taped them up until I get some black plastic wire wrap to back up my temporary fix. 

If the way these wires were installed is still being done, Thor needs to put some sort of protection where the wires change direction, thru walls, and not just to tape them to the wall by less than 1 square inch of electrical tape. This was preventable.