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Fresh water holding tank
Just wondering how many days do you folks get out of your fresh water holding tank? Me, wife and daughter get maybe 2 days of use before having to refill. Sound about right?
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Just the two of us, with 2 showers each and one dishwasher load 4 to 5 days. Installed a chrome ball valve on shower so can turn off and on to conservative ( intermediate ). We wear both raised on well and septic so conserving was mandatory.
Larry & Miriam
2002 XLII Vision
2019 Buick Envision
Hurricane, uUtah
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Just curious.
What’s the tank capacity,… and how old is the daughter?
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How high is up?????????
Unless the answers reveal how many 30 minute showers are taken or how many times the toilet is flushed or if someone is doing laundry the answers aren’t going to mean much.
We can get one day or one month depending on if we take showers or flush the toilet.
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Don’t know how big my tank is Coach is an 01 H daughter is 2 so fast showers lol we shower 2 times a day no laundry no dishwasher and standard times on the thinking chair nothing out of the ordinary
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We even shut water off to soap to conserve water
2000 Featherlite H3-45
2024 Jeep Grand Cherokee
Leesburg, FL -
Doesn’t sound right to go through a tank in 2 days. Conserving water in showers, no laundry, etc. seems based on our experience with our 100+ gallon capacity that at least 4 or 5 days is more realistic.
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Just drained and refilled water tank the other day, check the house water meter at start and stop of fill, 170.3 Gal total. There is always that little bit at the bottom that the pump can’t pick up so I would say there is 160 Gal usable.
Chuck
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Shower 2 times per day may be the real clue. I am not sure how many folks shower twice per day but we are not a part of that crowd. Our 165 gallon fresh tank generally lasts 7 days with just the 2 of us showering once a day and not using the washing machine.
3 people showering 2x per day would make 2-3 days about right.
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Hmm my tank looks about 150-170 gallons, but If a single shower user has water for 7 days I should see atleast 3 days and I get 2 if I’m lucky. Can water pressure play a part? Maybe to much pressure releasing to much water? Can that be regulated at the pump? Also since on the subject anyone know who makes the tank sensors? Mine reads full all the time on my fresh water
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Not sure what kind of toilet you have. But our Tecma uses a ton of water. Traveling with 5 3 of which are girls we barely make it a day without needing fresh water or needing to dump. However my son and I have gone 10 plus days on the same tank. In our case the toilet is the biggest user of water.
Bill
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Mine are made by Headhunter, they can be reset. Hope you don’t need to replace one, over $9000 each.
Jack
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Tank level sensors are like fuel gauges in the sense they can be inaccurate. To the best of my knowledge all of our conversions have sensors that can be adjusted or repaired.
As we use our coaches we develop a sense of when we need to refuel, add water or dump our tanks. Sensors are nice to confirm when the need arises, but usually we already know based on how long it was before we refueled, took on water or dumped.
If the sensors are Headhunter they are not sensors strictly speaking, but a tube that goes into the tank and measures head pressure. They can be calibrated. If they leak air the reading will be wrong.
Other types of sensors may require cleaning.
But as far as water and holding sensors go, if you have one working accurately you have all the information needed until repairs can be made. Just get in the habit of never filling without dumping. If the holding tank is full, the water tank is likely empty, and if the water tank is full the holding tank should be empty. The time between when fresh water is added is then based on how you and our passengers use water, and how much.
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Bill thanks for the info our toilet seems to use up a lot of water as well I’m guessing that’s where the problem is, I don’t believe my sensors are a head hunter style mine are small round sensors on the side of the tank with two wires coming out of them.
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I don’t think you should attribute it to toilet. The toilet regardless of high or low – just isn’t as impactful as running the shower. Two showers for each person, long showers will impact your water a lot more than toilets. Everyone thinks they take a short shower but the reality is it just isn’t the case. Time yourself. Lol. But turning the water off while shampooing or soap is a great way to save water (getting wife or kids to do it – good luck). But literally that’s really where the water goes.
2000 Featherlite H3-45
2024 Jeep Grand Cherokee
Leesburg, FL -
Additional water savings in the Headhunter toilets.
You can play around with the flush timer and reduce the amount of time the toilet flushes to save a little water. You can also slightly close the water valve behind the toilet, that will lower the amount of water in the bowl after the flush reducing water sloshing while driving and reducing water consumption. To much water is not needed, to little is not good. It’s a matter of fining the balance
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