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lostagain
Senior Member Joined: 06 Sep 2016 Location: Quaker Hill, CT Online Status: Offline Posts: 2587 |
Topic: Sanitising Water system Posted: 12 May 2019 at 9:01am |
If the ingredients are not listed on the bottle, I sure would be careful with that stuff if you drink the tank water. You have no idea what you are ingesting. For all the faults of chlorine bleach at least it's a known and proven water purifier and is pretty easily rinsed from the system, if you take the time to do it right. And it costs about 10¢ per sanitization procedure. As for drinking tank water, there have been many discussions about that in this board with some strong feelings expressed in both directions.
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mjlrpod
Senior Member Joined: 27 Sep 2016 Location: Massachusetts Online Status: Offline Posts: 1214 |
Posted: 12 May 2019 at 7:34am |
I use a product called "spring fresh" from camco. It costs 25 bucks at my dealer, and will treat 100 gallons of water. So if you measure precisely, you get three times for about 10 bucks each year. I dont know what the main ingredient is, but it has almost no smell whatsoever, and since I never drink the water from the tank, I'm not sure about taste. I do the exact same clean out as everyone, just instead of bleach, I use this stuff. I don't like the idea of putting bleach into plastic or rubber seals. I might unknowingly be still using it, but atleast it's unknowingly. (please don't tell me you googled the ingredients and it's bleach, heh)
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Danielw1
Senior Member Joined: 01 Apr 2017 Location: Oregon Online Status: Offline Posts: 115 |
Posted: 12 May 2019 at 12:08am |
Thanks for mentioning the baking soda rinse in this thread Stephen. I’ll try it, last time I sanitized and rinsed flushed the system twice, there was still a harsh bleach smell in the water. I have not sanitized since and just bring a jug for brushing teeth, coffee, etc..
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StephenH
podders Helping podders - pHp Joined: 29 Nov 2015 Location: Wake Forest, NC Online Status: Offline Posts: 6289 |
Posted: 11 May 2019 at 6:41pm |
I like the overnight bleach sanitizing followed by a baking soda water rinse to get rid of the antifreeze residual taste and odor.
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StephenH
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Tars Tarkas
Senior Member Joined: 14 Jan 2013 Location: Near Nashville Online Status: Offline Posts: 1446 |
Posted: 11 May 2019 at 2:05pm |
I'll join the others in being shocked if you have anything other than a 30 gallon fresh water tank. As someone else said, time is a factor in the equation. Half a cup of bleach in 30 gallons for 4 hours I think. A cup up bleach for an hour maybe. The "spam" thing happens, in my experience, when you have a slow connection and try to re-post a message that seems like it didn't post but it did. TT
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w.o.y
Newbie Joined: 26 May 2018 Location: Creston BC, Ca Online Status: Offline Posts: 21 |
Posted: 11 May 2019 at 1:15pm |
Thanks for the replies. Now I will see if I can find the right number of l gallons for my particular model.
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Billy Bob
Senior Member Joined: 11 Jun 2018 Location: Boulder City, N Online Status: Offline Posts: 103 |
Posted: 11 May 2019 at 12:25pm |
pretty positive you have a 30 gallon fresh water tank like all the rest of us unless your pod was modified with a different smaller fresh water tank
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w.o.y
Newbie Joined: 26 May 2018 Location: Creston BC, Ca Online Status: Offline Posts: 21 |
Posted: 11 May 2019 at 12:11pm |
Tanks guys. I have quarter cup in there now and will see if I can find the right number of gallons it holds
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Happy Camper
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Happy Tripping
Senior Member Joined: 27 May 2014 Online Status: Offline Posts: 473 |
Posted: 11 May 2019 at 11:58am |
The reason for this variance is that time of exposure plays a big part. Lesser amounts of bleach simply require, within reason, increased length of time for the bleach to do it's thing.
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lostagain
Senior Member Joined: 06 Sep 2016 Location: Quaker Hill, CT Online Status: Offline Posts: 2587 |
Posted: 11 May 2019 at 11:23am |
I could be wrong, but don't all r-Pods have 30 gal. fresh water tanks?
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