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Hi, initially came on here to read reviews of sites before we tried them and found out there's a message board too, great!

Ok, I have read about people with submersible pumps wanting to connect their vans directly to a water supply on fully serviced pitches and needing either a prssure reducing kit or a ball valve kit for their water containers, my van is fitted with a diaphragm pump so question is could I connect this direct to the water supply? Don't see why not but there again I don't know the pressure capacity of the internal valves, anyone else done this?

thanks for any help

Steve

Hi and welcome to the site, our van has a diaphram pump and as yet i do not know of a direct connection to the van (although this can easly be done) i would not recomend a direct connection to the van, if you have a failure in the van ie pump diaphram pipe work ect there is nothing to stop the water flooding the van, but if you have a mains kit to your aquaroll and the pump is switched of when you leave the van and you the have a failure it will not flood the van only the water within the pipework. Hope this helps

It's a shurflo pump, no inlet on the side of the van, it's a 1988 model, way before any of that sort of stuff! water carrier is contained in a side locker, can't see any reason why a diaphragm pump can't cope with a direct feed from a mains supply, will have a go next time I take the van away if no one else has tried it.

Thanks

Steve

Quote: Originally posted by Castleton on 15/5/2005

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... water carrier is contained in a side locker, can't see any reason why a diaphragm pump can't cope ...

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