On 08/16/2011 05:33 PM, mcneely4@cox.net wrote:
> ---- Rocket J Squirrel<camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>  wrote:

>> This morning I thought to connect the fitting to a drinking
>> water-grade hose and then to my house's hose bib, using a
>> female-to-female hose thread adapter. Turn on the hose bib, open
>> the ball valve and the tank fills in about 60 seconds. Me likee. No
>> noodlage.
>
> sounds great.  However, how do you know when the tank is getting
> full, unless you have the tank top off (see all the attendant
> inconveniences above)?

There is this red-yellow-green lamp thing on the stove. This first trial
run of the bottom feed method. Once the light hit green (in a
surprisingly short amount of time) I did open the tank to make sure the
lamps were getting it right. Looks like once the green lamp comes on,
something like another 10 or 15 seconds gives a pretty darn full tank.

> And, isn't there back pressure (again, unless
> you have the tank top off).  Oh, for that, just open the freshwater
> fill inlet on the side.  Allows venting.  do you just let 'er run
> until water runs out the inlet?  Seems a reasonable thing to do, now
> that I consider all of the situation.

I thought there might be back pressure but the tank filled right up
without any alarming whistling sounds of air escaping under high
pressure or anything. Note that I didn't have the top off until I saw
the green light.

The inlet is higher than the top of the tank, isn't it? The top of my
tank is not fully sealed (old grommets, etc., which might be why I
didn't have a backpressure problem) and I've had it overflow down into
the side and cabinet so I try not to let it get 100% full.

--
Jack "Rocket j Squirrel" Elliott
Bend, Ore.
1984 Westfalia. A poor but proud people.
1971 "Ladybug"-brand utility trailer ca. 1972 from a defunct company in
San Clemente, Calif., now repurposed as The Westrailia.