noisy water pump
Anybody know how to quiet down my water pump? When the pump comes on it rattles the plumbing (really loud), Thor told me they put in a cheaper pump and to fix it I would have to put in a better qualit...
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ron.dittmer wrote:Old-Biscuit wrote:I installed a 2 gallon accumulator and it really makes the RV water pressure more like a house. Water pressure is more consistent, especially beneficial when taking a shower. The pump cycles nicely, a much more friendly sound than the on/off groaning all the time.
You can also install a small accumulator tank in discharge line. That will minimize the pump cycling times which helps quiet it down.
Total investment was between $40 & $50. If you look close, the brass elbow to the left has the flex hose attached from behind. I also added a ball valve seen in the foreground, for an emergency just in case I had a catestrphic failure of some sort and needed to quickly cut off the supply from the fresh water tank. 5 years so far and the setup is still working great.
Ours looks a whole lot like this. We put a bypass valve in the line and remove the accumulator completely during the winter. Ours ia a 2 gallon from Lowes.
Also the note about bubble wrap of pipe insulation around the areas where the pex is threaded through cabinets and stuff is a good one - that helps a lot!
I remember being mortified the first night we dry camped with our TT surrounded by a lot of tenters, the whole thing was just so loud flushing the potty in the middle of the night! So this issue was one of the first mods we did on our TT. Since we had the bypass in place, we just took our accumulator tank with us when we traded the TT for our C and did the same install on the C.
