Mascerators
Has anyone installed a Mascerator on their Coachmen Class C Motor Home? How satisfied are you with it?
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Two types of poop throwers: Permanently installed, like a most Sani-Con units, and portable units like the FloJet/Sanicon Tank Buddy.
Some permanently mounted units, such as on Phoenix Cruisers, have a full-diameter emergency dump, but others don't... and without some bypass system, having a dead macerator can be a vacation ender.
I personally prefer a portable macerator with a clear plastic sleeve, so I have more warning when the tank is about empty (running macerators dry kills them dead in seconds, so just going by the sound change isn't good.)
Three notes about macerator pumps:
1: Make sure the discharge hose is well marked and of a proper diameter. I use an oversize black rubber hose marked, "non-potable only" as a way to be sure that this hose never gets near the fresh water.
2: You can use the gray tank as a rinse for the black. Run the macerator pump to empty the black, turn off the pump, pull both black/gray handles, which backflushes the black tank. Then run the macerator pump until both are empty.
3: A macerator pump uses 20 amperes of current. Make sure to have the proper gauge wires. With my portable, I either use jumper cables, or even better, a separate "poop battery" so the current draw doesn't affect my rig's 12 volt system.
Some permanently mounted units, such as on Phoenix Cruisers, have a full-diameter emergency dump, but others don't... and without some bypass system, having a dead macerator can be a vacation ender.
I personally prefer a portable macerator with a clear plastic sleeve, so I have more warning when the tank is about empty (running macerators dry kills them dead in seconds, so just going by the sound change isn't good.)
Three notes about macerator pumps:
1: Make sure the discharge hose is well marked and of a proper diameter. I use an oversize black rubber hose marked, "non-potable only" as a way to be sure that this hose never gets near the fresh water.
2: You can use the gray tank as a rinse for the black. Run the macerator pump to empty the black, turn off the pump, pull both black/gray handles, which backflushes the black tank. Then run the macerator pump until both are empty.
3: A macerator pump uses 20 amperes of current. Make sure to have the proper gauge wires. With my portable, I either use jumper cables, or even better, a separate "poop battery" so the current draw doesn't affect my rig's 12 volt system.
