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    Posted: 10 Sep 2018 at 11:37am
Originally posted by furpod



  Because someone who will remain nameless filled the grey tank in one shower, first time out.







Yours did that too, eh?   

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You ain't tricking me with that... Wink
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That's what I thought, the magic of marketing turns 30 gallons into 36, or really 30 into 23 as was likely in the OP's case.  

I don't want to offend any marketing types on this forum but please, some honesty for once would be greatly appreciated. But I guess if we engineering types wrote marketing copy no one would buy the products....

It is quite possible to take < 1 gallon showers, especially if like me you're too lazy to hitch up and run into town for water and a dump station.  10 sec wet down, then off.  Light on the soap so less rinsing, scrub as long as you want. 30 seconds rinse. Done. 
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The water in the water heater and lines is still water available.  It dowsn't disappear, so the total water capacity is 36, not 23,  The secret is easy and said before: fill the wh and lines when you fill the tank.
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If you know how much you want to bring, say for a weekend trip, and don't want to bring more than necessary try this.  Take your white fill water hose and grab a 5 gallon plastic bucket.  Time how long it takes to fill the 5 gallon bucket, for us it is 25 seconds.  Using that info you may only want to bring 15 gallons with so put the hose in the fill tube and let it run for 25 x 3 or 75 seconds and you have your 15 gallons.  As furpod so aptly stated if you are boondocking for an extended time, just fill er up. After being in third world countries where water is at a premium, we have learned, when boondocking to do those 60 second showers, even with 2 showering daily we can go a whole week with 1 tankful of water.
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Originally posted by jato

If you know how much you want to bring, say for a weekend trip, and don't want to bring more than necessary try this.  Take your white fill water hose and grab a 5 gallon plastic bucket.  Time how long it takes to fill the 5 gallon bucket, for us it is 25 seconds.  Using that info you may only want to bring 15 gallons with so put the hose in the fill tube and let it run for 25 x 3 or 75 seconds and you have your 15 gallons.  As furpod so aptly stated if you are boondocking for an extended time, just fill er up. After being in third world countries where water is at a premium, we have learned, when boondocking to do those 60 second showers, even with 2 showering daily we can go a whole week with 1 tankful of water.
Oh jeez! All this time I've been using a measuring cup; 80 cups per gallon. I ususally lose count around 200...Confused
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The object was to bring ~ 2/3 of a tank since we were only going to be out 3 nights and our altitude change was from 4,000 feet to 9,600 feet.  I just didn't want to schlep the other 80 lbs of water if I didn't have to.  I did buy a water meter that was recommended earlier in the post and will see how that works.

Thanks to all for the ideas and suggestions.  A really great thing about this Forum!
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How do you get the water out of the water heater tank? As you draw it out it is replaced from the fresh water tank by the pressure pump. Once the fresh tank is empty the pump runs dry leaving water in the heater tank and no more water pressure. Result is that you leave and return with 6 gal water in the heater tank. So 30 gal is it unless you get at the water heater via the hot water drain. Guess you could do it in an emergency if you had to but it wouldn’t be fun or practical.
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I think most people just remove the anode rod to drain the water heater tank.
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