pnichols wrote:
pauldub wrote:
I only use it to fill a pot for boiling crabs.
That's an outstanding use of you outside shower. :B
Another possible use .... but one I haven't tried yet .... is for easy refilling of your fresh water tank from a container when drycamping if the fresh water tank's outside filling port is right next to the storage cabinet containing the shower head (as is the case with our Itasca): We often carry somewhat heavy backup drycamping water containers inside the RV and don't want to lift them up to - and hold them up to - the outside fresh water tank filling port. Our Itasca has a winterization liquid suction hose plumbed and valved into the fresh water pump/fresh water system - all of this is of course inside the coach - under the main rear bed. I think one could just move the backup water container over to where this hose comes out by the bed - or attach an extension hose to this winterization hose so moving of the backup water container was not even required and 1) put the winterization suction hose into the container, 2) stick the outside shower head into the outside fresh water filling port, 3) turn on the water pump and walla, 4) let the RV's water pump draw from the backup water container inside ... as the outside shower head refills the fresh water tank through the fresh water port outside.
Do any of you think that this would work or has anyone ever tried this? We don't winterize, so I've never used the system for it that came with the RV. :h
It took me a couple of reads to figure out what you were suggesting. It ought to work in theory, but there may be a more direct way of doing things. If you set the system up for winterization and open the valve to fill the RV tank from city water, I think it ought to pump water into the tank directly without requiring a trip through the outside shower. At the very least, it would be relatively easy to add a bit of plumbing to make that possible.
(At first, I thought you were suggesting that you fill the RV tank by pumping water from the shower into an external container and sucking it back with the winterization system. That obviously doesn't work; circulating water doesn't make it multiply! But that wasn't your idea, just my misreading of it.)
