Time taken to fill water tank with the Whale plug style fitting

[David & Ann]

It takes me 7 minutes to fill my water tank with a garden hose from the outside. MH also has a trap flap in the floor in the habitation area with a large screw cap where we could fill water if necessary.

 

[Channa]

Hello,
The Whale adaptor fitted to my Compass Autoquest takes around 30 minutes to fill. I understand the pipes inside the van are narrow diameter but this seems ridiculous. Has anyone had experience of cutting another inlet into the tank so to make a wide bore filler that can be filled with a normal hose. I notice earlier models have this arrangement which seems far better

An interesting thread I have never seen this arrangement sounds like as you would find on a touring caravan, but with an additional interior tank ?

I assume the exterior offers the whale pump 12v electrical connection ? If so use an aquaroll or food grade gerry can with a spare whale pump to transfer to the interior.

I have a CAK tank on mine which flls via a hose exterior or have the option of lifitng a seat and filling manually.

if you get time pics of the arrangement would be perhaps useful to others and those curiouslike myself

Channa

 

[maingate]

An interesting thread I have never seen this arrangement sounds like as you would find on a touring caravan, but with an additional interior tank ?

I assume the exterior offers the whale pump 12v electrical connection ? If so use an aquaroll or food grade gerry can with a spare whale pump to transfer to the interior.

I have a CAK tank on mine which flls via a hose exterior or have the option of lifitng a seat and filling manually.

if you get time pics of the arrangement would be perhaps useful to others and those curiouslike myself

Channa

Elddis vans have been supplied with a Whale pump as standard for a long time Andrew. Mine did and it was a 56 reg. They did not supply the container back then, I just bought a 10 litre one from Halfords. To be honest, I just tipped the water in to the filler instead of using the pump.

 

[David Morison]

Hello,
The Whale adaptor fitted to my Compass Autoquest takes around 30 minutes to fill. I understand the pipes inside the van are narrow diameter but this seems ridiculous. Has anyone had experience of cutting another inlet into the tank so to make a wide bore filler that can be filled with a normal hose. I notice earlier models have this arrangement which seems far better

I believe the Whale adapter has a pressure reducer built in which presumably is part of the problem. Perhaps this can be "doctored" or as I'm doing manufacture my own hose adapter to fit the Whale inlet that allows full flow.

 

[yeoblade]

I believe the Whale adapter has a pressure reducer built in which presumably is part of the problem. Perhaps this can be "doctored" or as I'm doing manufacture my own hose adapter to fit the Whale inlet that allows full flow.

:ditto:

I think the pressure reducers are only for caravans that are feed direct to tap from the hose pipe so cut my out, Not needed if filling into a holding tank on MH.


If filter was that blocked, where did you fill from?

 

[RichardP]

photo of the arrangement,

Hopefully attached is the photo of the nylon housing for the filter which may also have been a pressure reducing valve - but there's no pressure reduced now!

 

[izwozral]

It is possible to get hair between your teeth whilst carrying out certain acts David.

 

[izwozral]

Hyphen heathens the bloomin' lot of 'em, what we need is more apostrophe apostasy!

 

[alcam]

Yes indeed you nitpickers know your toothcombs