Holding Tanks Size, what to look for?

turtypointbuck wrote:
Hello all,
I am on the hunt for my first TT or fiver. One thing I have found is the huge variation in holding tank sizes.
eg.
Cross Roads Sunset Trail Lite
Fresh 40
Gray 26
Black 26

Cross Roads Sunset Trail Reserve
Fresh 40
Black 40
Gray 80

Obviously a very large Fresh water holding tank is desirable for no hook-ups camping. Beyond that, can you provide insight into what to look for and why. Are the capacities on the above Lite camper too small?

Thanks in advance.

As already mentioned both a large FW and grey tank is ideal, but just as important is the grey tank should be close to or multiples of your FW tank. This ensures you can use all your FW w/o worrying about having to dump. IMO the first set of tanks in your example are mismatched since I can see using 40gal of FW and having more than 26gal of grey water from that 40 gal. A better match would have been a 40gal FW and 32 gal grey. You second example is even better since you can go thru two FW tanks of water and never fill up your grey tank once.



Larry