Fresh water tank

dieseltruckdriver wrote:

Bobbo wrote:

dieseltruckdriver wrote:
The one of the differences is my pump hoses fit in the tote also. The other difference is my hose fittings fit standard garden hoses, female in male out.

My hoses ride in the trailer anyway, in case I need to fill the tank at my site. (I don't use shore water. Even with full connections, I use the tank.)

The reason I went with double males is that when I connect a hose to the faucet, it connects to a male fitting. When the bladder is full, I close a hose shut-off valve and leave the hose attached to the bladder. I take it to the trailer and that hose, still connected to the bladder, now connects to the male fitting on the pump. The other male fitting on the pump now connects to the normal tank filling hose.

My 5er still has a gravity fill port, and we also only use our fresh tank. I just got done with a spot with electric and water for 9 days, and never pulled a hose out, since our fresh tank was full was full when we got there.

I only mentioned it because some think they HAVE to use the city hookup instead of using their fresh water tank. I don't understand why.

I don't worry about my tank sensors because I know two full fresh tanks fit in our 2 grey and 1 black tanks. In 9 days, we didn't use 1 fresh tank, much less two.

Agree. We always leave home with a full fresh tank, and even with places with hookups it's easy for us to go 5 days before needing to fill. It's nice to pull into a site, unhook, and relax. Unless it is hot out and we need the AC, I usually don't hook up to electric till after dinner. And more than once we have pulled into a campground with water problems and no fresh water. Others are scrambling because they don't want to travel for whatever reason with water in the fresh tank.

Many times if I need more water I'll pull out my empty 7.5 gallon can and fill it up at the spigot and then use my pump to fill rather than dig out a fresh water hose, hook it up and then mess with putting it away again.