Fresh Water Tank Overflow

[JIM CHALOUPKA]

My .02 worth on this is if you don't have auto fill and I do, I still choose to fill my tank manually and dump at the same time. I turn the water off at the supply manually. This is not an inconvenience just the way I do it. My methods gives me peace of mind and no problems, unless I get to talking to someone around the park and I forget to turn the water off. If you didn't pick it up above, I run off the bus water pump and not the supply pressure, it can take it and I don't have to worry about over/under pressure problems should the pressure regulator go south or the park supply go dead. Just my way of doing things.

JIM

[Jon Wehrenberg]

I'm with Jim.

[phorner]

We use the fresh water tank supply also.

A few years ago, we were camping in Virginia when the campground well pump died.

On a long holiday weekend.

That meant no public water at all... no toilets, no showers, no nuthin'...

Guess who had a full tank of fresh water to get them through the weekend ???

[rahangman]

I'm with Tuga (and Jon). Having come back from a 2 month trip, and stopping a several locations overnight as well as campgrounds, I think it just makes sense to use the fresh water tank for its purpose...gimmee water NOW. Especially when pulling into locations just for night. Why bother. With my fresh water tank full I doubt that I am loosing very much performance. Also, being a lowly owner of an older coach, I have to manually hook up and unhook as well as hauling a heavy 50amp cord around, so, hook up for elec and not to worry (at least for a couple days). If laundry or dishes, are in line, yup, hook up and use direct feed .

[Zmax73]

I`m confused Jim. With the park water supply on, water pump on & considering all things are properly working, would you not auto fill the fresh water tank as you use it therfore keeping a full tank all the time ?

[Jon Wehrenberg]

The autofill on my Liberty is either a Headhunter or a Headhunter modified by Liberty. With the switch set to auto the pump takes the water tank down to 20% at which time the auto fill feature opens the solenoid valve and at 80% the valve closes.

On our Libertys (Jim's and mine and others) we can use municipal water and not draw from our tank or use the pump, but the pump we are equipped with delivers a very high flow of water so we can be using multiple sources of water and there is no reduction in flow. We are not assured of ample flow on a municipal supply.

So our tanks, even when on autofill can have as much as 80% capacity, or as little as 21% capacity. When I fill manually I always dump the holding tank so I am also assured I will never have an issue with an over full tank. If I rely on autofill there is not that assurance and we are then relying on the Headhunter tank ,monitor warning us of a full tank condition. I would rather avoid what could occur if the sensor system should fail by just doing things manually because there is no automatic dumping feature for the holding tank, although we can dump via the air operated valve or macerator without stepping outside the coach.

[JIM CHALOUPKA]

I`m confused Jim. With the park water supply on, water pump on & considering all things are properly working, would you not auto fill the fresh water tank as you use it therfore keeping a full tank all the time ?

Everything that Jon said with the addition that my way of doing things also includes being outside and paying attention when I dump. I have seen too many campers have their hose rip or somehow come out of/off of the campground sewer pipe. Very funny when it's not me. As far as I am concerned the inside button is for the other guy that looks for a dark country road

JIM