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Footslogger03
Senior Member Joined: 21 Jul 2011 Location: Laramie, WY Online Status: Offline Posts: 362 |
Topic: Black and Gray Water Stuff ... Posted: 12 Mar 2012 at 11:54am |
We moved to a Pod from a T@B that only had an internal 5 gal holding tank that was used for pumping water into a small sink. We captured the drainage (gray water) in a 7 gallon container and then manually emptied it into the reservior as we left the campsite.
But now we have a Pod, with plumbing, gray and black water lines. We are by no means "clueless" but honestly this is the fist time we will have to deal with all that stuff. It seems like we have seen both types of drainage in various campsites ...some with both gray and black and some with gray only and then a "sanitary dump station" centrally located in the campsite. That brings a question to mind ...if you are at a campsite where both black and gray lines are available in the ground - - how do you know which one is which AND ...would it then be smart to own 2 separate drain hoses so that you could have both hooked up to your Pod at the same time ? Mark J |
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this_is_nascar
Senior Member Joined: 24 Jan 2010 Location: NJ Online Status: Offline Posts: 466 |
Posted: 12 Mar 2012 at 2:42pm |
Wow. I've never heard of a separate opening, at either the trailer or the campground, for black and grey. Every trailer I've ever seen has one common outlet to which both black and grey are fed. At the campground, there's one sewer hole only to accommodate the black and grey waste.
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"Ray & Connie"
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Posted: 12 Mar 2012 at 4:45pm |
+1 on nascar's comments. All I have ever encountered was one dump pipe/hole.
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techntrek
Admin Group - pHp Joined: 29 Jul 2009 Location: MD Online Status: Offline Posts: 9059 |
Posted: 12 Mar 2012 at 9:16pm |
Some pod models have two outlets, but as they've said, there is always one sewer connection. You should keep the black tank closed and let it fill up. Leave the gray tank open until you know the black tank is getting close to full, then close the gray tank and let it fill up with a shower or three. Then dump the black tank, close it, dump the gray tank (this clears the hose), and leave it open.
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Doug ~ '10 171 (2009-2015) ~ 2008 Salem ~ Pod instruction manual
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this_is_nascar
Senior Member Joined: 24 Jan 2010 Location: NJ Online Status: Offline Posts: 466 |
Posted: 13 Mar 2012 at 7:38am |
Wow. What a huge inconvenience this must be. I can't see the logic behind designing it this way.
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"Ray & Connie"
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turncoat3
Newbie Joined: 02 Jan 2011 Location: Washngton, NC Online Status: Offline Posts: 37 |
Posted: 13 Mar 2012 at 8:37am |
Personally, I have not found that draining the Black tank first then the Gray tank to clean the hose inconvient in the 2 1/2 years I have been in my POD. |
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techntrek
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Posted: 13 Mar 2012 at 12:01pm |
nascar, some models must have two due to the slide-out and tank arrangement. Apparently the mechanism gets in the way and doesn't allow connecting the black and gray tanks to one outlet.
Since you can leave the hose on the gray tank 99% of the time and only have to move it around during dumping I can see it not being too bad - but I'm glad ours only has one.
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Doug ~ '10 171 (2009-2015) ~ 2008 Salem ~ Pod instruction manual
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Posted: 13 Mar 2012 at 7:00pm |
My RP173 had separate black and gray connections. One was in front of the wheel and the other behind (I don't remember which was which, however). I had to move the hose from one to the other to dump both tanks.
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furpod
Moderator Group - pHp Joined: 25 Jul 2011 Location: Central KY Online Status: Offline Posts: 6128 |
Posted: 15 Mar 2012 at 12:48pm |
LOTS of TT's have two outlets. Just go to a dealer and walk around looking at them. We camp with two other families pretty regular, and all of us have separate drops.. sort of. our 'stream has only one combined, but the pod has separate. It's absolutely no big dealeo.
So I guess we are ambidextrous. It takes about 10 seconds longer to dump and flush the pod then the 'stream. The inconvenient thing I see about pods sewer layout is in the garage models, where the grey water from the garage goes to the black tank.. |
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rid415
Newbie Joined: 06 Jan 2012 Location: edmonton Online Status: Offline Posts: 24 |
Posted: 15 Mar 2012 at 9:20pm |
yers is the correct anser
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