RVing in Central America
Hi There all your Rvers I wanted to put a post on here about going south with your RV. When we started to plan our trip to Central America I found little information on here with the exception o...
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Tony,
Not sure how you use your Sewer Solution but your experience seems to be considerably different than ours. We have been using one for over 7 years now and have a completely different take on it than you do. Perhaps you are not using yours properly. I am not sure of the math formula (there is one) but shooting water through a 1/8" jet into a 3/4" drain hose means it takes about 10% (relative to the black) or less of flush water to dump the black in our tank - I have measure this many times at different pressures over the years and no way do we use anywhere near the amount of water you claim to use. We have been in any number of outback areas with very limited water and have always been able to dump with little or no problem. I also did state that we do use bleach - and I have also dunked our hose in a 5 gallon bucket from time to time. What the smooth lined hose does - or I should say doesn't do - is not collect the solids that build up in those grooves and ridges in the slinky hose. We also rinse our black tank with fresh water and then dump again. We employ a number of other procedures to do all we can to keep our system clean that are not possible with the Slinky. We have never ever had to use chemicals or other things in either our black or gray tanks to fight odors etc. in 8 years of fulltiming. That is what I mean by clean. There is no way any sewer system is going to be drinking water safe and I never said it would be. But we do try to reduce the opportunities for disease to breed in our system. Two people in any size RV will probably have a similar amount of black water to dump unless they spend a lot of time behind bushes. It is not the size of the RV but how much waste the occupants generate.
Not sure how you use your Sewer Solution but your experience seems to be considerably different than ours. We have been using one for over 7 years now and have a completely different take on it than you do. Perhaps you are not using yours properly. I am not sure of the math formula (there is one) but shooting water through a 1/8" jet into a 3/4" drain hose means it takes about 10% (relative to the black) or less of flush water to dump the black in our tank - I have measure this many times at different pressures over the years and no way do we use anywhere near the amount of water you claim to use. We have been in any number of outback areas with very limited water and have always been able to dump with little or no problem. I also did state that we do use bleach - and I have also dunked our hose in a 5 gallon bucket from time to time. What the smooth lined hose does - or I should say doesn't do - is not collect the solids that build up in those grooves and ridges in the slinky hose. We also rinse our black tank with fresh water and then dump again. We employ a number of other procedures to do all we can to keep our system clean that are not possible with the Slinky. We have never ever had to use chemicals or other things in either our black or gray tanks to fight odors etc. in 8 years of fulltiming. That is what I mean by clean. There is no way any sewer system is going to be drinking water safe and I never said it would be. But we do try to reduce the opportunities for disease to breed in our system. Two people in any size RV will probably have a similar amount of black water to dump unless they spend a lot of time behind bushes. It is not the size of the RV but how much waste the occupants generate.
