Using portable Flo-jet macerater pump at home
I have a portable Flo-jet that I haven't used yet and would like to. I only have our residential toilet to pump into. At some point, I hope to tap into house's sewer line. If I understand correct...
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johnm1 wrote:
wa8yxm - Thank you, it didn't cross my mind that the system siphon backwards. I will have to keep this in mind.
This was not my experience when I first was feeding my FloJet macerator output to the main floor bathroom toilet - system did not siphon backwards, in fact I never gave it any thought. However, the advantages to servicing my tanks at home at my convenience became instantly obvious so the decision to install a permanent intake stack on my house intake stack was a no-brainer. I haven't visited a campground dump station since and wouldn't ever consider it in the future.
Soundguy - I've seen your posts and pix of you home dump station. It's what I would LOVE to do but haven't figured out how yet.
I obviously have no idea what your setup is but would your house have some sort of vertical waste pipe in the basement that's fed by an upper floor toilet? If so, could you not T into that and run the extension to the outside world, similar to how I've done it?
The whole point if this is to make it more convenient to dump. At almost every campground I've been to they have a dump station and I almost always use it. However, there are often long lines/waits and I can't flush out my black tank because ... the wash hose at the dump station has some weird brass end that prevents you from screwing it to your RV and/or the line it too long behind me and I don't want to be "that guy" holding everyone else up.
Exactly. Just be aware that if your black tank is aft of the axle, which in most cases it is, it will when full unload the trailer tongue to some degree so you want to make sure it doesn't do so excessively and cause inherent handling problems while towing.
