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31/8/2022 at 9:43am
Location: London
Outfit: Lunar Cosmos 524
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First thoughts, disposal of grey water into a hedge or drain means it is NOT soaking the pitch, and seem to recall some sites have 'rules' about overflowing tanks soaking the pitch! Potentially the pitch could become waterlogged, with subsequent users parking wheels/corner steadies on soft ground, so causing damage that would not be popular with the 'sinking camper' or site owner.
As a device, I'm sure it filters 'solids' well enough, but my grey tank needs a decent clean from time to time as it gets stinky, the contents are nutrient rich and encourage bacterial and algae/fungal growth, can't see any claims this device has anti-bacterial/algae/fungal properties, so likely to need frequent cleaning to avoid it becoming smelly AND discharging smelly effluent.
I use my onboard shower, is it always going to cope with the volume, or will the shower plughole back up! On my van the shower is fairly slow draining anyway from length of pipe run and shallow angle, without any additional restriction to flow from such a device!
Like the idea, as I'm fundamentally a lazy so and so and would like to avoid hauling the the heavy waste tank off to the drain, but not sure it's as sophisticated as maybe it needs to be, and can't see site owners in general appreciating having a series of campers soaking their pitches, it does have consequences! On sites accepting tents, would the tent campers appreciate pitching their tent on a soaked patch from previous caravan/MH?
Conclusion, maybe it's just too self indulgent, with little thought to longer term use of pitch and other users of pitch. With such proliferate watering, site owners may find the grass grows excessively on the watered patch and needs cutting more frequently than the general grass, or pitch users have a patch of excessively long grass to contend with. Even on a hardstanding, it's likely to encourage weed growth on the wet patch!
As a professional design engineer, mostly as head of design, I've spent a long career looking at pros and cons of design concepts, and this device screams amateur effort with insufficient thought to the overall problem and application! Harsh maybe, but professional designers are their own worst critics, whereas amateurs rarely look for faults in a concept.
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