Black tank sensors

Never heard of a Butt wand damaging sensor - if your concerned and have patience you can always always fill your tank with water and add septic tank cleaner -- should dissolve everything within a week.

DrewE wrote:


Spray wands are not expensive to buy pre-built, for what it's worth. You can get a basic PVC one for under $10 at Wal-Mart.

I bought one of those, the d*** things and it blew apart spraying water everywhere. Build your own something like mentioned above. I used 3/4" CPVC and drilled 4 holes in the end cap. A 4" PVC cap drilled to slide on the pipe, located with hose clamps will make an adjustable splash guard. I added a shut-off valve, a washing machine hose with a right angle end and an adapter for the sink faucet. Now I can use hot water for cleaning, can clean using water from my own tank as well as simply attaching to a garden hose.

The "sensors" are just metal posts that go through the tank. You'd likely damage the walls of the tank itself long before you'd damage the sensors, and neither one is a concern with a sprayer hooked up to a garden hose. (If you used something like a pressure washer, that might start to be more concerning...maybe.)

If your kid is flushing wipes, the sensors and their readings are the least of your worries. I'd make sure that the tank did, in fact, get emptied, particularly if you don't have a transparent/translucent elbow to monitor progress with when dumping.

Spray wands are not expensive to buy pre-built, for what it's worth. You can get a basic PVC one for under $10 at Wal-Mart.

That's esentially what I use. I made a PVC "wand" by using an elbow at the bottom of a 30" pipe with a plug on the open end. Then I drilled a couple of 3/16" holes - one pointed slightly upward and one straight out. It works fantastic!
I make an effort to aim it at the sensors and they work like new afterwards.