Water pressure regulator...
Should my water pressure regulator be in line before or after my water filter?
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I'd put the pressure regulator in the line before any of my stuff that I didn't want blown up by the high pressure the regulator is supposed to protect you from. This means at the hose bib from which I draw water, before my hose/filter/trailer inlet.
I learned this lesson the hard way. I once ran my white drinking water hose from the hose bib to the regulator, then into my trailer. Turned on the water, looks good, not even a drip, so I go inside to get an icy cold one, and glanced out the window to see water spewing from the bib/hose joint. The pressure was so high it split the hose right next to the fitting.
This lesson came in handy a year or so later, when I camped at a campground that was located on the side of a mountain. They put me in a site at the bottom, where the water pressure, had it been merely 20 psi nominal up at the lodge beside the highway whence the water supply was located, would have been boosted substantially in the course of coming the 300 feet or so DOWN to where I was located. Guy across the way from me split his water hose.
I learned this lesson the hard way. I once ran my white drinking water hose from the hose bib to the regulator, then into my trailer. Turned on the water, looks good, not even a drip, so I go inside to get an icy cold one, and glanced out the window to see water spewing from the bib/hose joint. The pressure was so high it split the hose right next to the fitting.
This lesson came in handy a year or so later, when I camped at a campground that was located on the side of a mountain. They put me in a site at the bottom, where the water pressure, had it been merely 20 psi nominal up at the lodge beside the highway whence the water supply was located, would have been boosted substantially in the course of coming the 300 feet or so DOWN to where I was located. Guy across the way from me split his water hose.
