Woodtroll wrote:
Bob213, you are right, the current one has served me well. But it seems any of them, including Cavagna, Fairview, Marshall, and especially Camco, have their share of failures. Perhaps it is not as bad as it seems, since people are more likely to complain about a bad experience than they are to share a positive experience in the reviews.
Guaranteed everyone with a failure screams it to the heavens while maybe one in 10,000 pipes up in praise of . . . nothing happened, it worked as expected.
I've had one on my only RV, and a couple on my house and workshop. I paid no attention to brands, and they've all worked fine for years. Don't sweat it. And I always use them in auto mode, with both tanks turned on. If you pay no attention to the thing, of course you will one day run completely out of gas. Give it a glance once in a while already, and you will never have a problem.
At the same time, the mathematics of statistics predicts that regardless of the finest materials, most careful and skilled craftsmanship, tight QC, and conservative design, somewhere out there is a unit that will fail prematurely in service.
Talked to a guy a while back worried his 60,000 mile old luxury car was a lemon because the alternator BRACKET broke. Naw, man, those things suffer zero wear, and if they are strong enough to survive the first starting of the engine, they will last 500,000 miles and beyond. You just won the lottery by finding THE ONE math predicts will break anyway. Pop over to the nearest junk yard and give the man $5 for one off a wreck. You already found the bad one, the junkyard one will last forever.
