joelkoz
Member
Everyone knows (or should know) that the shore water connector has nothing to do with the fresh water holding tank. If your fresh water tank is near empty from your last trip, and you connect to shore water, you get unlimited water for showers and such, until you disconnect, in which case you are out of luck if you didn't take the time to refill the holding tank.
Anyway - being a lazy sort, and also starting to tinker with customizations, I've been thinking of installing a valve on my boat that would re-direct the shore water inlet directly to the holding tank, so it DOES fill up the tank. That way, my "procedure" would be:
1. Return from trip
2. Connect to shore water and turn on
3. Turn valve to re-fill holding tank
4. Turn valve back after holding tank full to resume normal shore water use
That would be a lot less fiddling with hoses.
If I can get the above to work, my next step would be to figure out some type of "auto-fill" process that would handle steps 3 and 4 without direct intervention.
In any case, anyone know of a reason why the above would NOT work? As far as I know, the holding tank is NOT pressurized. I'm guessing that the plumbing in the boat is pressurized AFTER water is removed from the holding tank and sent thru the pumps. Is that correct? If so, I think I could just tap directly into the line connecting the water fill cap to the holding tank with another one tapped from the shore inlet, connected with a Y-valve.
Anyway - being a lazy sort, and also starting to tinker with customizations, I've been thinking of installing a valve on my boat that would re-direct the shore water inlet directly to the holding tank, so it DOES fill up the tank. That way, my "procedure" would be:
1. Return from trip
2. Connect to shore water and turn on
3. Turn valve to re-fill holding tank
4. Turn valve back after holding tank full to resume normal shore water use
That would be a lot less fiddling with hoses.
If I can get the above to work, my next step would be to figure out some type of "auto-fill" process that would handle steps 3 and 4 without direct intervention.
In any case, anyone know of a reason why the above would NOT work? As far as I know, the holding tank is NOT pressurized. I'm guessing that the plumbing in the boat is pressurized AFTER water is removed from the holding tank and sent thru the pumps. Is that correct? If so, I think I could just tap directly into the line connecting the water fill cap to the holding tank with another one tapped from the shore inlet, connected with a Y-valve.