Fresh Warer Drain

Look at your FW tank and see where the drain line heads off to.

Mk1putt wrote:
Hello, I am newbie and just got a 2015 leprechaun 280ds - any idea where the fresh water drain might be located?

If this is brand new, ask the dealer where you bought it.

And if you don't have an owners manual or three, get them from the dealer too.....or get instructions to locate them on the net and print them out.

And this is NOT just a smart assed remark.
The odds of finding another owner with your exact model is rather slim.....and then he has to know more about it than you do.

Thank you the quick responses. Learning quickly

Most owners manuals are going to be generic in nature and will probably cover the whole range of models within the series. And, probably will not indicate where the drains are.
What your looking for will be, usually, 3 lines that will be comming stright down from the floor. Sometimes colored, red white blue. They will be the drains for the cold water line, hot water line, and fresh water tank. They may or may not have a push on or screw on cap. If you can follow the lines up into the body, somewhere in the line you may or may not find a cutoff valve/lever that opens the line to drain water. The caps, if there, are just that, a cap. The valve itself would be/should be somewhere inside the coach.
You'll just have to get under and search.
Can't be more helpful as each manufacturer places them in different locations....no standardisation. The fresh water tank drain should be somewhere very near the tank itself, and exiting under the coach.
Hope it helps a bit.
Grumpy

Mk1putt wrote:
Thank you the quick responses. Learning quickly

Congrats on your new RV, by the way. I hope you have many safe and happy adventures.

Nice floor plan:

Grumpy - that was helpful indeed. I was hoping it would be easy, but I now understand that I need to do some digging around near the tank. Thank you

GM thank you. We re really excited and have five trips planned until the snow flies and we store until next spring. Thank you we do like the floor plan

Cheers

I agree completely with what Grumpy said.
In our Leprechaun (different model and different year) there is a wooden grill at the base of the kitchen cabinets. Above the grill is a sticker that reads "Low Point Drains". The three hoses that Grumpy talked about and their valves are behind that grill. The blue one is the fresh water tank drain in ours. The fresh tank is under the fridge, right next to this grill.
Don't know if this will help in your search.

Now, I'm going to confuse and discombubulate (how do you like that word?) you even more.
Some of the cutoff valves maybe water bypass valves, used for winterization.
I'll use my Forrest River Lexington as an example.
Under right rear of the coach, my 3 water drain lines exit the coach. One, the fresh water tank drain, has a drain valve inside a storage compartment below the water tank. A no-brainer. But, originally the hot and cold drain lines just simply had a screw on cap, and to drain the lines, the caps were simply removed. Water would slowly drain, and, turning pump on would speed up the process. I have since added a valve to the end of each line using pex sharke bite valve fittings.
But, in the bathroom, behind a drawer, are cutoff valves for each line, and those are the bypass valves to close off the system to add winter fluid, bypassing the hot water heater.
Only way your going to know what you have is to play with them. If you find the lines under the coach, they'll probably be 1/2" lines, and if there is a cap, remove it. If water immediately flows out, thats all you need to drain them, and it means the "upstream" valve is open. If you remove the cap, and nothing flows out at all, then there is a drain valve somewhere in the system.
Sounds crazy, and confusing, but since there's no standardization, you just have to figure what you have and don't have.
Just remember, when finding and playing with a valve, in the open/flow position, the valve handle will be parallel to the line, and in closed position it will be at a right angle to the line. Every valve I've run across only goes through a 90 degree arc between open and closed.
Grumpy

Coachmen likes to put all sorts of water system valves on a central control panel. Mine (a much Coachmen Santara) has five on such a panel that are somewhat opaquely named, but actually end up being the water tank fill (from the pressure side of the system), winterization (or pump fill) suction line shutoff, hot and cold low point drains, and (I believe) a shutoff for suction from the tank to the pump. Nearby (but not on the panel itself) is the fresh water tank drain valve, the equivalent of what you're looking for.

The brochure for the Leprechaun 280DS only suggests that the drain valve is near the tank somewhere...not the most helpful. I guess probably that implies it's not on the fancy control panel.

Despite the initial confusion and complexity, it's actually a fairly convenient system to use once one figures it out. The only "hidden" valves of interest are the water heater bypass valves for winterization, which in my case are located underneath the kitchen cabinetry and accessed by removing a drawer. Invariably they would be close to the water heater, wherever that is on your unit.