Tank Sensors

tnt_motorsports said:
Hey Wayne, dumb question. The recipe calls for Lemi-shine and a dishwasher tablet. I was telling my wife this concoction and she asked is it a tablet for washing dishes or a tablet that cleans your dishwasher. I was like 🤔🤷‍?

Can you shed some light on this for me please?

Just my $0.02
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It's a tablet that washes your dishes in the dishwasher. The surfactant is what makes your dishes sparkly bright and keeps the film from building up on the inside of your dishwasher and stinking.
 
I switched to "liquified" last year for my black tank treatment, looks like that was a great call. Maybe with a little more time my sensors will come back around.

 
that big word has beenthrown around so much, I decided to see WTF a surfactant is..

aparently all dish soaps have a surfactant property to them... :)
 
We let the oldest boy and his gf borrow our camper for a long weekend. I put 10 gallons of water in the black tanks and tried the Lemi-Shine wash pod and some actual Lemi-Shine. Drove ~15 miles to the camp site, set up and dumped the tank. Water ran absolutely clear! Maybe my tank is clean, IDK. I did another treatment in both the black and grey tank. We will see when I pick it up on Sunday...

Just my $0.02
 
since I have a bit of property and no neighbors... I generally dump about 40 gallons of clean water in the black tank any time I return home, then haul the trailer out to the back 40 and dump it. Seems to be pretty clean.. I think the biggest problem causer for most people is if they return home with a load in the tank and don't get rid of it and let that toxic stew percolate in that black tank.
 
MSCH said:
I think the biggest problem causer for most people is if they return home with a load in the tank and don't get rid of it and let that toxic stew percolate in that black tank.
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This or sit in one campground for a few months, which we have done.
 
Wayne said:
This or sit in one campground for a few months, which we have done.
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yeah,,, that stinks.. reminds me of people with a boat with an onboard toilet.. and not being able to dump it..

surprised the RV industry hasn't went to composting toilets as of yet.
 
MSCH said:
I think all tank sensors ( especially black tank) ar schizo. I never look at them.
I fill the fresh water tank until it comes out the overflow and the gray and black tanks get drained the day we leave a parking place.. or sooner if we have been there for weeks.. you'll know when the tanks are full anyway, as the sink will start to back up... and the toilet, well you can look down that thing and tell if it is full.

which brings up a different question. I see people keep their stinky slinky hooked up, often wondered if they leave the tank drains open... whereas I let the tanks fill for day, then open the dump valves... figuring it flushes them out better.
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I leave them hooked up but the valve closed and just empty when the level gets high enough. Some people will leave the gray water open a small bit to allow draining but I fear sewer gases may come up so I prefer to do what you you - closed but hose attached and ready.
 
My previous TT had accurate gauges. This brand new one I just got in July proved it wasn't accurate on our very first trip. The gray water gauge read 2/3 but was actually full as we found out when the shower and sink backed up lol
 
GMBoy said:
My previous TT had accurate gauges. This brand new one I just got in July proved it wasn't accurate on our very first trip. The gray water gauge read 2/3 but was actually full as we found out when the shower and sink backed up lol
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you can sort of tell the tanks are almost full when the water starts draining more slowly.. you still have time..

which is better? a modern convenience item that lies to you or no modern convenience item at all?
 
MSCH said:
you can sort of tell the tanks are almost full when the water starts draining more slowly.. you still have time..

which is better? a modern convenience item that lies to you or no modern convenience item at all?
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I would still prefer the modern convenience of the level sensors even if not perfectly accurate...and just empty sometime before the full mark and of course we already have an idea of how much water we are using.
 
GMBoy said:
I would still prefer the modern convenience of the level sensors even if not perfectly accurate...and just empty sometime before the full mark and of course we already have an idea of how much water we are using.
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thats why they make that stuff so instead of shining a flashlite down into the toilet and eyeballing the black tank level the end user sees the tank is full, even if it isn't.. and they dump it.. effectively avoiding a major faux pas. :)
 
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