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My coach already has in 2 inline filters inside the water bay along with a Watt’s pressure regulator. I don’t use a pressure reducer on the water line but if you come up on a really high pressure water line it could blow your hose. When that happens I just fill the fresh water tank, turn off the water and use the pumps.

I am surprised that a Royale would not already have some similar setup.

[John]

I think, don’t know, there is an internal pressure regulator in the coach. A call to Royale Phoenix could confirm this. I always use a pressure regulator. $10 at WalMart. Simple cheap insurance. In my Royale there are two water filters behind the water softener, hard to get to.

[Tim]

I come at this from a different perspective. I never allow city water to be my sole source of pressure and volume. In other words I only use city water for tank filling so its pressure or volume of flow is unimportant. When the tank is full my tank is my water supply and my pump(s) provide the delivery and pressure so no need for any pressure regulator.

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Unless your fresh water tank fill has an auto shut off when full (still not fail-safe) then a pressure regulator is a worthwhile belt and suspenders type of safety. If the tank fills faster than the over-flowl can handle, the tank can overfill and split open (ask me now I know!). As I mentioned previously, I also only use the fresh water tank for daily water needs but that fill can be costly if you don’t have the necessary checks and balance in place.

The filters are VERY important. We pulled into a campground with brand new sites and I was the first user. Thank goodness for the filters as I found about an inch of sand at the bottom when another camper asked if I had had any problems with the water. I didn’t but dang, I can’t imagine how much trouble the other guy will have for a very long time with a fresh water tank full of sand!

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On my Royale I removed the built in water filter and did a by pass because 2 things 1st hard access 2nd you have a hard time changing built in water filters without spilling water, usually water goes ever ware, You try to keep water out of bays. So I use a good remote water filter I keep with hoses. I use it when I fill tanks and If I hook up I use a good quality water regulator with a oil filled gauge and the filter. also built in filters out of sight out of mind. Like Jon said most of the time I use the coach water pump. When I leave the coach for a couple of hours I turn off pump just in case.

[Bill]

I’m not sure how overfilling a water tank can do any more than spill water on the ground. The overflow is a vent so instead of building pressure the excess water just runs out to the ground.

[John]

Help me understand

You say you use the pumps for your water use use. Can the water supply be used to source the internal water use and not run the pumps on the coach?

[Bernard]

not sure on your conversion… but yes on ours and most I am aware of if you are connected to shore water you do not need to run your pumps. We only run the pumps when we don’t have shore water or when it’s too cold outside to stay connected.

Bill

[Ronald]

The way most conversions are set up you can use pumps to draw water from your tank or you can connect to city water (with the tank fill valve closed) and use city water exclusively.

Over the years we have learned to never rely on city water for a variety of reasons, some of which that are converter specific. We have been in RV parks that had inadequate flow or pressure and prevented us from showering while washing dishes. On the other side of the issue we were in a campground in Salt Lake City that had so much pressure it was opening the pressure/temperature safety valves on HW tanks.

Our last two coaches had Headhunter toilets. They work very well, but require a high pressure large flow and we cannot get the flow or pressure needed on all city connections so we just rely on our pump which is sized to provide all the flow we need.

There is no right or wrong way so we all can do the water supply any way we want.