On Aug 27, 2009, at 2:41 PM, Joy Hecht wrote:

> That's how I do it - run the hose in the window, get all the junk in
> the
> compartment out of the way, fill the tank from the top.
>
> The thing is, it's good to have another person at the faucet on the
> hose, so
> you can ask them to turn it off when your tank is getting full.
> Otherwise
> you have to pull out the hose while it's running and toss it very
> quickly
> out the window.

Or you can pinch the hose until you get outside or get Jim F's little
device.

YMMV,

Mr. BZ-less is more?

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> Joy
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> On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 3:40 PM, Tom Buese <tombuese@comcast.net>
> wrote:
>
>> To avoid the possible leaking into the van syndrome, it is easy to
>> fill the tank from inside by removing the 3-4" diameter tank cap &
>> placing the hose in the tank directly at any volume till it's full &
>> then turning off the hose before it overflows?  It takes more time to
>> access the tank, but the filling is much faster, you can see how much
>> water you are putting in, the condition of the tank, pump, hoses etc.
>> & you get to bond w/ your storage tank & related equipment while
>> sitting inside?
>>
>> YMMV,
>>
>> Mr. BZ
>>
>>
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>>
>> On Aug 27, 2009, at 11:56 AM, Troy wrote:
>>
>> <<How do you get the tank to fill rapidly, even with a rapid flow
>>> rate?  I
>>> have to keep the flow rate very low, or water fills the filler tube
>>> and
>>> overflows.  It takes a long while for me to fill the tank, being
>>> careful
>>> to avoid overflows due to backup as I go.>>
>>>
>>> That was going to be my question as well! A person would think that
>>> I have a 100 gallon tank inside the van with the amount of time it
>>> takes to fill that small 13 gallon tank. I've always had to keep the
>>> flow down to a slow trickle, although at times I thought about
>>> removing the screen to speed the process.  Since the tube doubles as
>>> a vent, the water would probably come gushing back if filled too
>>> rapidly. The solution would be to add a vent, but it would have to
>>> terminate higher than the fill valve to avoid a leak, at least
>>> that's my theroy;)
>>>
>>> Troy
>>>
>>