Quieter Water Pump
I have a SureFlo water pump in my trailer. It is rubber mounted and hooked up with flexible water line on the inlet and Pex-ish on the outlet. I am not real impressed with how much noise it makes an...
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mike-s wrote:DutchmenSport wrote:Seems a traditional accumulator tank would do even better. Air will absorb the pressure vibrations much better than water in a soft pipe.
In the past, someone posted a modification they did to their water pump. It was quite impressive. They used several feet of flexible hose rolled up in a coil...
A lot of trailers don't have room for an accumulator tank in the area where the water pump is located and you might still need to isolate the tank since it's the vibrations transmitted thru the structure that causes 99 percent of the noise. Finally, IMO you want to hear when the water pump comes on since if it starts short cycling it's time to look for a leak, not when you start wading thru the water that has drained onto the floor after it's soaked the floor and walls in the area of the leak and caused $$$$$$ damage already.
Larry
