Water and Holding Tanks

[Jon Wehrenberg]

Dear Newell Owner,

As Tom's answer illustrates there is no standard. His coach has two tanks and a total waste volume greater than the fresh water volume.

But, he actually may only represent a small percentage of conversions. Or his may be typical. You need to hear from all other owners, and you also need to hear from converters. Since we had two different tanks on coach #1 and a single tank on #2 there does not appear to even be a standard with a converter.

As far as capacity, I would have to say that you can control the potential for having a Kevin episode by monitoring your tank status. We have display panels in two places and audible alarms. We can also limit stored fresh water to never exceed the holding tank capacity. On our coach the auto fill limits capacity of fresh water to 80%, but we also can manually fill it until it overflows.

All of my comments are related to my Liberty, and may have no relevence to any other Liberty or converter.

Signed,

Ann Landers and Dear Abby.

[Coloradobus]

Mr. Newell Owner,

We have a 2000 Marathon "H"3-45. Our tank capacities are as follows.
Fresh tank=186 gallons plus 21 in the hot water heaters
Grey tank=86 gallons
Black tank=68 gallons
We have 2 separate dump vavles, one for grey and one for black. These valves join a central exit where the sewer hose attaches.

Another coach we know, a 2002 Marathon "H"3-45 has the same system as ours, but also has a macerator that diverts grey/black water thru a chopper/blender and sends the fluid out a separate port where a garden hose may attach. This macerator pumps the mess thru the hose and into where ever you put the hose.

[Kevin Erion]

I found that the Black tank is unlimited, just let it go and go and go and......

[Coloradobus]

So, Kevin,

Did you get the coach mess cleaned up? You left so quickly, we didn't know you were gone until someone mentioned it at dinner.
See you at Barrett/Jackson???

[Kevin Erion]

Sorry I took off so quick, kinda had a few things I wanted to get home and take care of. My friend called for an RV spot and we are number 200 or something on the waiting list. last year we showed up on Friday of the last weekend and there where a lot of spots empty. I guess some people spent there Lewbucks early and left. If you hear of a spot open up, let me know, we may still try the weekend thing again. I would like to hook up and BS about the Marathons and vintage Airstream stuff.
Kevin
kevin@erionracing.com

[mike kerley]

Tuga and Karen,

Our 93 Country Coach has a 64 gallon black tank, 112 gallon grey tank and holds 134 gallon of fresh water.

Seperate manual dump valves for black and grey tanks.

I've never run our of "black tankage", but have filled the grey to the top. We frequently go five nights boon-docking with out a problem. I'm thinking about plumbing the grey to the black with a pump system to allow me to transfer some of the grey water to the black tank for capacity and to better clean the black tank.

Jon's right, they all seem to be different.

Mike K.

[Jerry Winchester]

Brother Newell Owner,

I think MangoMike can tell you from experience that when someone parks an anaconda in your crapper, you have to start considering TDF, turd displacement factor, in your calculations.

And since Lew is on about a bale of Metamucil a day, he surely must be careful of plopping a couple of whoppers into the black tank and still having enough water to over run the tank volume. And the fact that he rarely showers gives reason to question the size of his grey water tank