Black tank overflow
Hey all-
We have a 2005 Holiday Rambler Ambassador, 40' DP. We're currently at a park on full hookups.
The wife heard dripping in the toilet room and found the bowl completely full of water and overrunning onto the floor. She yelled for me to turn off the water at the pole, which I did. I then opened the black tank valve, ran the sanicon, and drained the black tank. The water in the bowl went down and emptied normally. I continued running the sanicon til the black tank was empty.
Something is filling up the black tank without our permission. I flushed the toilet numerous times, every way I could, waited, and did not hear any signs that the toilet was running; no sounds of dripping into the tank. And when I fill the bowl with water, it holds for a reasonable length of time, like it's supposed to.
Out in the plumbing compartment I have a short run of hose connecting the built-in faucet to the black tank rinse input. Thinking that maybe that faucet was running and filling the tank, I disconnected the hose and waited, but nope; totally dry.
Remember that I had emptied the black tank right after the wife called me?
Well, after doing all the checking and troubleshooting I just described, I went out and ran the sanicon again, and there was a significant amount of water in the black tank. The sanicon ran for probably 15 seconds before running dry, so *something* put that water there since I'd emptied it 15 minutes before. I know I had put some in when troubleshooting the toilet, but it seemed like there was way more in there than I'd contributed.
So, bottom line: how can water get into the black tank other than the potty or the tank-cleaning-spray input?
I again emptied the black tank right before I came online, so I'll go back out right now and see how much accumulation there might be and I'll report.
dave
Just checked. It did drain some, but I accidentally left the gray valve open when I ran the sanicon, so some it may have been from the gray tank. I'll check again in awhile, and only open the black valve this time.
We have a 2005 Holiday Rambler Ambassador, 40' DP. We're currently at a park on full hookups.
The wife heard dripping in the toilet room and found the bowl completely full of water and overrunning onto the floor. She yelled for me to turn off the water at the pole, which I did. I then opened the black tank valve, ran the sanicon, and drained the black tank. The water in the bowl went down and emptied normally. I continued running the sanicon til the black tank was empty.
Something is filling up the black tank without our permission. I flushed the toilet numerous times, every way I could, waited, and did not hear any signs that the toilet was running; no sounds of dripping into the tank. And when I fill the bowl with water, it holds for a reasonable length of time, like it's supposed to.
Out in the plumbing compartment I have a short run of hose connecting the built-in faucet to the black tank rinse input. Thinking that maybe that faucet was running and filling the tank, I disconnected the hose and waited, but nope; totally dry.
Remember that I had emptied the black tank right after the wife called me?
Well, after doing all the checking and troubleshooting I just described, I went out and ran the sanicon again, and there was a significant amount of water in the black tank. The sanicon ran for probably 15 seconds before running dry, so *something* put that water there since I'd emptied it 15 minutes before. I know I had put some in when troubleshooting the toilet, but it seemed like there was way more in there than I'd contributed.
So, bottom line: how can water get into the black tank other than the potty or the tank-cleaning-spray input?
I again emptied the black tank right before I came online, so I'll go back out right now and see how much accumulation there might be and I'll report.
dave
Just checked. It did drain some, but I accidentally left the gray valve open when I ran the sanicon, so some it may have been from the gray tank. I'll check again in awhile, and only open the black valve this time.
