alliemac9 wrote:
Dutch_12078 wrote:
My Coachmen "Water Works" panel has valve settings that let me use the existing onboard pump to fill the fresh tank from portable containers without having to lift them up. I carry a couple of collapsible 5 gal. jugs for that purpose also.
Argh. My Coachmen manual SAYS this is supposed to work on our model, but it never has. We asked our local dealer and they were totally confused as to what we were referring to. I think I finally pulled out the manual and showed them and their response was that based on the way the unit is plumbed, there's just no way that would work. Bummer, I thought it was a really cool feature!!
Do you have a 4 valve, or a 5 valve Water Works panel. As I recall, the 4 valve cannot be configured to pull from a jug into the the fresh tank, only into the piping for winterizing. The 5 valve panel that I have will do both, although filling the fresh tank from the pump is not shown on the panel diagrams. All it takes is switching one valve from "Winterize" to "Suction Fill" with the others in the "Winterize" configuration depicted on the panel.
