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Old 01-27-2014, 04:24 AM   #21
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We are on RV #5 and have never had a manual from the factory that is worth the paper it is written on. The manuals from the individual component manufacturers are good and it would be good to have a decent manual from RV builder to tie everything together.
 
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We are on RV #5 and have never had a manual from the factory that is worth the paper it is written on. The manuals from the individual component manufacturers are good and it would be good to have a decent manual from RV builder to tie everything together.
However Keystone used that manual to refuse warranty on my trailer.

Maybe that is why it is so vague.

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Old 10-16-2020, 02:35 PM   #23
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There have been several other posts on this forum about where those valves are supposed to be for normal operation.

If they had just used the same terminology in the manual that they used on the labels then there wouldn’t be a problem.

But they label the valve on and off then use the term “turn the valve to winterize” or turn the valve to “Bypass” in the manual it doesn’t make sense especially if the valve got turned before you read the book.

What happened to me was it had gotten dark while I was filling the water tank. That valve is marked so it makes sense. But when I went to the front of the trailer I apparently turned the wrong valve.

Then when the pump ran and I didn’t have water I got a light and turned to power fill valve to “normal Flow” as the label says I guessed at which of the other two Valves I turned. Went back in the trailer and ran the pump. No Joy.

So I go back to the water center and swapped valves. That didn’t seem to help either.

So I went to the manual. That didn’t help.

Then I remembered the picture I made so I could put the labels on after the water center was replaced.

That shows both the winterization valve and the heater bypass valve in the off position.

That fixed the problem.

The valves should be marked “Bypass” and “Normal Flow” for the heater and “Winterize” and “Normal flow” for the winterize valve the power fill valve is marked “fill” and “normal flow” then the manual would work.

I have never used the heater bypass or the winterization valve.

If it gets cold enough in south Florida to need to use them I will put the trailer on a barge and take it to Porto Rico or something.

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Soo, if the heater bypass valve is horizonal (like the sticker shows) is the bypass closed/off? Same question for the winterized valve and the fill valve? Thanks!!
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Old 10-16-2020, 03:28 PM   #24
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Soo, if the heater bypass valve is horizonal (like the sticker shows) is the bypass closed/off? Same question for the winterized valve and the fill valve? Thanks!!
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This is a seven or eight year old thread, so you are not going to get an answer from many who posted here. Photo of our convenience center with valves in their normal positions, and a diagram of the plumbing as looking at the convenience center from the rear of the wall. Hope this helps you. Also, go to the UserCP in the brown header bar and enter your model, and year of your rig so questions can be answered knowing what your rig is.
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THANK YOU! Your photo is nearly identical to my 3100RL - it helped tremendously. Thanks again!
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