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    Posted: 21 Aug 2013 at 11:00am

Originally posted by techntrek

Originally posted by furpod

With it just being the two of us, we go a week or better on the black tank. Generally 3 days on the gray if we have hookups, week or better if we don't. It's all about shower time.. lol


Yup, showers are the bane of all gray tanks.  Except when you have hookups - its ok to leave the gray tank open when you are hooked up.  Its the black tank you need to keep closed until its full.
 

At least w/o hookups the gray tank can't be any more full than the full contents of the fresh tank.

I discovered last week that the shower on my 173 dumps in the black tank not the gray tank. I was surprised by this but I was boon docking at the Nascar races and had a chance to get my tanks pumped out. They were using a vacuum system so I thought I would open the flush valve on the toilet so that it would flow better. when I went into the bathroom to do that I could hear the air being sucked into the shower drain so I put my hand over the drain and sure enough it was sucking air. 
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Interesting!  I have a 2010 173 and never gave that a thought.  The next time my grey water tank is empty, I think I will pour some water down the shower drain and see if it comes out of the grey water tank. 

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Hmmm.. I know Kymooses discovered his rear sink (garage model) drains into the black water and not the gray.
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Originally posted by furpod

Hmmm.. I know Kymooses discovered his rear sink (garage model) drains into the black water and not the gray.


Aye, and from the answers I've been given on this, are that it is not an uncommon occurrence, it is all rather dependent on where your tanks are in relation to your model.

But the shower??  Weird.

Question though, are the black and gray dumps tied together on the 173?  If so while pumping the black mightn't if be possible that some suction might have been applied to the shower drain?

That is odd indeed.
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Originally posted by kymooses

Originally posted by furpod

Hmmm.. I know Kymooses discovered his rear sink (garage model) drains into the black water and not the gray.


Aye, and from the answers I've been given on this, are that it is not an uncommon occurrence, it is all rather dependent on where your tanks are in relation to your model.

But the shower??  Weird.

Question though, are the black and gray dumps tied together on the 173?  If so while pumping the black mightn't if be possible that some suction might have been applied to the shower drain?

That is odd indeed.

No they are not tied together. 
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