hosed up newbie question September 18, 2009, 11:40:01 pm Yahoo Message Number: 105955OK, we've purchased the 'tasteless' white hose for filling our fresh water tank. These types of hoses state not to leave them unattended under pressure. My question is, are these the hoses you use to connect to 'city water' with the pressure regulator when a water connection is available?Thanks, Richard
Re: hosed up newbie question Reply #1 – September 18, 2009, 11:59:38 pm Yahoo Message Number: 105963"are these the hoses you use to connect to 'city water' with the pressure regulator when a water connection is available?" They're the ones I see people using for that purpose... I don't know of anything better. Personally, though, I never connect directly to city water. I just fill my freshwater tank and draw from it until it needs filling again. Doing it this way avoids many potential problems:* burst hoses * frozen hoses * burst plumbing if a regulator fails * limited water flow rate due to regulator restriction * algae growth in hoses and filters left sitting out in the warm sun all day * algae growth in the freshwater tank when it's left to stagnate for long periods * flooding from an inexhaustible source of water if a valve or pipe fails... and so on. :-)Andy Baird http://www.andybaird.com/travels/
Re: hosed up newbie question Reply #2 – September 19, 2009, 10:18:39 am Yahoo Message Number: 105982On Sat, 19 Sep 2009 03:59:24 -0000, "Andy" wrote:QuotePersonally, though, I never connect directly to city water. I just fill my freshwater tank and draw from it until it needs filling again. Doing it this way avoids many potential problems:... and so on. :-) Under so on, it MIGHT led to a dead water pump. I replaced our limping pump with a new one that also limped. We had hookups for two weeks so I used city water to "save" the pump. The pump was dead at the end of the period.The only possible linkage I observed between the pump failure and using city water, was that city water was flowing through the pump and filling the fresh water tank. Maybe that leads to failure. I don't know. But the other reasons Andy listed are enough to never connect to city water.Cheers, Don
Re: hosed up newbie question Reply #3 – September 19, 2009, 09:25:37 pm Yahoo Message Number: 106006Andy and you have convinced us to never connect to city water. Maybe will use that connection as a bud vase Richard
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