Water Pressure Regulator - Follow Up
Acquired and installed a variable pressure regulator as suggested on this forum. The RV parts guy most people seem to use where we are staying ordered me a Valterra. It was an extra $25 I guess, b...
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City water pressure is determined by the height of the city water tank, aprox one PSI for two feet of height, some parks will have more pressure and some less, the whole idea is to maintain a reduced pressure in your rig so that some of the connectors do not blow.
Where we are staying for the season we have variable pressures, arround 3 in the morning the pressure is about 120 PSI, then it drops when the natives take showers and start breakfast, the pressure drops to about 80PSI then goes up between 80PSI to 100PSI depending on what day it is, then it drops down in the afternoon when a lot more natives prepare dinner, wash dishes and thake evening showers and baths, then we see pressures of 50PSI to 80PSI then it climbs back up as the night progresses.
Some fire hydrants will have 200PSI and above, I have had to turn spigots off on rigs that where left for the day and a fitting blew, they look like a water fall and I can imagine the damage inside, all prevented by having a pressure regulator, opening the valve a little will not regulate the pressure, there is static pressure and working pressure.
Static pressure can not be prevented, that is what places the lines and fittings under a lot of strain, with a presuure regulator the moment that you open a valve the pressure drops and the fitting relaxes instead of continuing to be under pressure and eventually failing.
Hoppe it helps alittle
navegator
Where we are staying for the season we have variable pressures, arround 3 in the morning the pressure is about 120 PSI, then it drops when the natives take showers and start breakfast, the pressure drops to about 80PSI then goes up between 80PSI to 100PSI depending on what day it is, then it drops down in the afternoon when a lot more natives prepare dinner, wash dishes and thake evening showers and baths, then we see pressures of 50PSI to 80PSI then it climbs back up as the night progresses.
Some fire hydrants will have 200PSI and above, I have had to turn spigots off on rigs that where left for the day and a fitting blew, they look like a water fall and I can imagine the damage inside, all prevented by having a pressure regulator, opening the valve a little will not regulate the pressure, there is static pressure and working pressure.
Static pressure can not be prevented, that is what places the lines and fittings under a lot of strain, with a presuure regulator the moment that you open a valve the pressure drops and the fitting relaxes instead of continuing to be under pressure and eventually failing.
Hoppe it helps alittle
navegator
