water pressure - Montana Owners Club

ronstan · 07-07-2004, 05:41 AM

Am sittting in the public library in Berrien Springs Mi. We are are the fairgrounds for our FCRV Campvention. With my regulater hooked up to the water hose I don't have hardly any pressure. The water pressure at the faucet doesn't seem that good. Do you think I could just not use it. Or has it gone bad. Will check in again about Fri.

Montana_657 · 07-07-2004, 05:59 AM

Montana plumbing is rated at 200psi cold... we never bother with a regulator.

8.1al · 07-07-2004, 06:53 AM

Montana plumbing is rated at 200psi cold... we never bother with a regulator.
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Hallelujah!! I can throw that stupid regulator away

sreigle · 07-07-2004, 06:56 AM

I use an adjustable regulator from camping world because I had so much of this kind of trouble with the standard regulators. Before the adjustable, when a regulator went bad I went without a regulator until I could buy another one. Just adjust the water pressure at the CG's spigot so that it's not excessive. We've been in parks who say their pressure is in excess of 100 psi. I found that more than 57-60 psi causes the toilet to shoot flush water onto the neighboring wall. In your shoes, yes, I'd go without the regulator until I could get another but I'd adjust the pressure manually to a reasonable level. Only problem with doing it this way is when park usage is heavy you may find you have to turn it up to get decent pressure, depending on the park. Gruffy may be right but it makes me nervous to have the pressure too high and I don't like water shooting out of the toilet.

On our adjustable I set it at 57psi. That works very well for us and has not caused any problems in well over a year of fulltime use. Be advised all the books say limit pressure to 40-50psi.

Montana_657 · 07-07-2004, 07:03 AM

Never heard of a bidet????

sreigle · 07-07-2004, 07:12 AM

ROFLMAO, Gruffy! I can't imagine a bidet being a desirable thing but apparently it was or is to some.

ronstan · 07-17-2004, 11:36 AM

Thanks for the info. We are now back home. I never did get to check the forum after I posted. I was the chairman of digital photography and didn't have time to get back to the library. We were selling a c/d with pictures on it. I have to sort probably aroung 2000-3000 pictures. We had a great time. Can't wait to see some of you in Sept. Thanks again.

H. John Kohl · 07-17-2004, 12:16 PM

ronstan,
I have a problem with my regulator at one camp ground. I found it was causing their "anti back pressure" value to partially block the flow of water. If I hooked the hose up at the faucet it worked fine, but putting the regulator there is interfered with the back flow. I now put the regulator at the trailer and have only blown a water hose once, cheap hose.
Good luck and enjoy.

Northstar · 07-17-2004, 02:14 PM

To regulate or not to regulate! I will have to ponder this question! Happy rving.....

Montana_1683 · 07-18-2004, 02:54 PM

ronstan,

One of the reason for using a pressure regulator is to help prevent the hose from breaking. If the regulator is placed at the Rv instead of the faucet end, how do you keep the hose from breaking under the pressure?

Gary

Treecounter · 08-14-2004, 04:41 AM

When we wintered in Mexico the parks had no pressure. They use a 10 meter tower for pressure. We installed a demand pump in the hose and pumped the water into our rig. Still use it for short trips down there. In the states we also use the adjustable regulater. Treecounter

fulltimedreamer · 08-14-2004, 04:30 PM

Occasionally, I will run into a park with low water pressure and I do not use a regulator. But, having had a plastic feeder line under a sink blowout at home, I know I don't want this to happen in a camper. The PEX fittings they use seem to me like they could blow a part pretty easily under high pressure. I think it is prudent to keep the pressure under 60 PSI. So, the rule for me is to use a regulator unless the pressure is extremely low.

I have been to a couple of campgrounds where the water pressure was so low that we filled our fresh water tank and used the pump for showers.

Happy trails!!

azstar · 08-15-2004, 08:26 AM

I also had a line blow off under my cabinets. I was using a pess. reg. Turned out to be poorly designed hose clamps on lines to the water pump area. Sure was glad I was there to shut it down. I'm also glad I had the reg. at 40 psi. instead of 100 or more. It took me a moment to gather my thoughts (5am sleeping) and get outside to turn it off. Would have passed a lot more water at 100psi. in just those short couple of min.

I have had low flow conditions with good pressure before. That turned out to be a sticking check valve. Right where your hose connects to our rigs, under the screen we have a check valve. I had to remove the screen and play with the valve to loosen it up. After doing this the flow was greatly improved. I guess they get a little corrosion on them. Thinking of somthing to lube it with. You would notice this condition if when you turn the cold fauset on and get immedeate good pressure then it drops.

NJ Hillbilly · 08-16-2004, 03:05 AM

I bought a gauge at Home Depot, it has a needle that shows the highest pressure spike. If I am staying at a park for a while I monitor the spikes and if they top at around 60 psi, I remove the regulator. I have been planning on getting an adjustable regulator, just haven't gotten to CW yet.

John

Thunderman · 08-16-2004, 05:07 AM

[quote]Originally posted by NJ Hillbilly

I bought a gauge at Home Depot, it has a needle that shows the highest pressure spike. If I am staying at a park for a while I monitor the spikes and if they top at around 60 psi, I remove the regulator. I have been planning on getting an adjustable regulator, just haven't gotten to CW yet.

John
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John, adjustable water valves (Watts), are available from Home Depot also.I think mine was about $35. which included some fittings.

sreigle · 08-18-2004, 03:29 PM

I use the adjustable regulator and set it to max at 57psi. Any more than that and the water closet blows water onto the wall during a flush (clean flush water though). We've had no problems other than the higher pressure tends to cause us to use up the hot water more quickly since we adjust the shower pressure towards the high end.

My regulator has been acting up so I took it apart and cleaned it. Now I need to find a park with sufficiently high pressure to allow me to readjust it to 57psi.

azstar · 08-18-2004, 03:52 PM

Steve, Excellent point on using up the Hot water quicker with higher press. Something I never considered. Good post. Thanks

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quote:Originally posted by sreigle

I use the adjustable regulator and set it to max at 57psi. Any more than that and the water closet blows water onto the wall during a flush (clean flush water though). We've had no problems other than the higher pressure tends to cause us to use up the hot water more quickly since we adjust the shower pressure towards the high end.

My regulator has been acting up so I took it apart and cleaned it. Now I need to find a park with sufficiently high pressure to allow me to readjust it to 57psi.

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