Where to "dump" when not at campgrounds?
We'll be parking our B in a friend's driveway and staying in it for a few weeks. We'll use their water & electric, but where can we go to dump black water in a large city?
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Arizona Kid wrote:
Davydd, that's a sewer solution. Different than a macerator.
"High velocity water jet pulls sewage from the RV sewer pipe and ejects it out the discharge hose. Liquefies waste and tissue. Pumps up to 8 gallons per minute. No installation necessary. Just twist onto your RV sewer pipe in place of the cap. Requires min. 15 psi water pressure through standard garden hose. Includes fiberglass-reinforced ABS pump unit, 10' dump hose, garden hose quick connect with backflow preventer and adapter for connection to 3" and 4" dia. sewer pipes or 1" PVC pipe. Universal design fits vertical or horizontal sewer outlets."
Don't know if will pump uphill, but they get good reviews for short runs.Davydd wrote:Arizona Kid wrote:
The portable Flojet Macerator comes in it's own box, with cabled alligator clips to attach to the chassis battery. It has it's own fuse wired into the on/off switch.
Using a 3/4" garden hose, it will pump 50' or more, to a sewer clean-out, depending on the upslope.
I have used mine for years pumping up about a 3' grade. Easy to keep clean by just flushing with the grey water.
I did have to add about 10 more feet onto the alligator cables.
One more thing, you need to attach a clear piece of pipe between the macerator, and the end where the slinky comes out. This is so you can shut the pump off as soon as the tank is empty. This will prevent running the pump dry, and over heating it, which I believe is the cause of a lot the macerator problems that users are having, both portable, and built in.
No one is running a hose to a toilet through my house either. :E
Here is one in use by a fellow B couple in a Pleasure-way Excel that normally is a 3" slinky gravity dump. The white hoses are water and the green hose is the dump.
I bought one of these things so I could dump my tanks at my shop via the sewer cleanout. Not quite sure how this thing will work using an on-board pumpout like I have in my van.
The problem I see in the pic above is using white hoses for the water supply. I would not use drinking water hoses for this because - yuk! I use only gray hoses for anything around the RV for wash-down and for a device like this.
