Hello all! We are back in the RV Community after 15 years or so. Please consider us newbies. We just bought a 2018 K-Z Connect 251RK and are looking forward to our first trip!Question: All the videos and articles I have seen say to hook my pressure regulator and water filter up at the supply. The pressure regulator is fine but it seems to me that it would be better to hook up the water filter at the camper. The water will at times sit in the hose for hours when it is not being used. Wouldn't you want to filter that water? Am I missing something? Thanks!

That water sitting in the hose would have already been filtered. If you are using a drinking water safe hose, the hose should not add anything that needs filtered out.You could do a 2 filter system with a sediment filter pre-hose and a charcoal/taste filter after if that is what you are going for.

Anything the hose leaches into the water will not be caught in the filter anyway. Should have no issues with a potable water rated hose.

It's no different than the water sitting in all that PEX water line in your RV.

I put everything near the camper. That way I’m more likely to look at it occasionally. If using the non metered flow regulator, that might be placed on the supply faucet.

I rather not have the extra weight hanging off the TT. I put both on the campsite spigot. Along with a wye.

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Lynnmor
Explorer
Mar 18, 2021
I put a hook under the trailer and hang the filter there out of the hot sun and out of the way. The regulator and a Y are at the hydrant.
beemerphile1
Explorer
Mar 18, 2021
hydrant - hose - filter - regulator - 6' hose - RV

This keeps the filter and regulator beside the RV. As someone who has had to rebuild industrial regulators due to a tiny speck of grit, my regulator goes after the filter. I use a whole house filter rated to handle high pressure.
philh
Explorer II
Mar 18, 2021
I'm overly cautious and always run off onboard water. Too many horror stories of leaks destroying RV.
Cocky_Camper
Explorer II
Mar 18, 2021
I use the regulator at the camper side. If you are in the direct summer sun, those hoses expand and build up pressure which is causing increased pressure inside also...
Boomerweps
Explorer
Mar 18, 2021
MarkTwain wrote:
midapo wrote:
Hello all! We are back in the RV Community after 15 years or so. Please consider us newbies. We just bought a 2018 K-Z Connect 251RK and are looking forward to our first trip!

Question: All the videos and articles I have seen say to hook my pressure regulator and water filter up at the supply. The pressure regulator is fine but it seems to me that it would be better to hook up the water filter at the camper. The water will at times sit in the hose for hours when it is not being used. Wouldn't you want to filter that water? Am I missing something? Thanks!

I want the weight of the water filter on the water faucet not on the plastic connector on the side of the RV.

I use a Camco Evo something large free standing with bracket water filter and a 10’ hose at the trailer side, NOT hanging a filter off the TT. Only extra on the TT is a metal 90 degree adapter then hose.
cougar28
Explorer
Mar 19, 2021
Cocky_Camper wrote:
I use the regulator at the camper side. If you are in the direct summer sun, those hoses expand and build up pressure which is causing increased pressure inside also...

If that would cause a pressure problem what kind of problem is your water heater causing?
Kevinwa
Explorer
Mar 19, 2021
Spigot, wye, filter, regulator, 10’ hose camper.

I use the second side of the wye to rinse off my dusty and maybe sweaty mountain bike helmet, gloves and knee pads when I get back from a ride.

I like the regulator downstream of the filter, as I feel that I get better flow through the filter when it is on the high pressure side. I also carry a long hose, but have only needed it once in the last eight years...
LVJJJ
Explorer
Mar 19, 2021
Hook up at the supply, just a regulator and blue filter. Got a Zero G hose when they first came out, love it.

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