Powered Sewer Hoses and Sewer storage tanks

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(09-16-2018 09:28)davidbrady Wrote:  Chuck,

That cable remote is standard Glendinning. Vantare has the same remote and I would expect it's standard equipment with most converters of our vintage coach.

BTW, I attached Marathon's patent if anyone wishes to implement a similar hose extension/retraction system.

Chuck, what if you don't want to use this feature? Can you manually pull out the hose and store it? I can imagine some tight quarters situations where you don't want the hose to pneumatically pop out and you may want to do it manually instead. (I wouldn't want to give my neighboring camper a black eye, for instance). Also, when you take the cap off the end are you greeted with a puff of air? And, how does it stay clean? It's customary to first dump the black then the grey to flush the hose but then most of us disconnect the hose and run fresh water thru it to further clean it, and lastly is the dragging on the ground an issue? These dump hoses aren't the toughest things, so I'm imagining the hose developing pinholes overtime as the air pressure forcefully drags the hose across the ground. Is this a problem?

Yes, it is Glendinning but retracts the hose coiled into a barrel (not stored on a reel) Many coaches have powered shore cords but not remote controlled (like our Wanderlodges). If you watch the video closely, the hose is only extended a few feet out from under the coach then hand pulled to the connection. But the hose can be driven all the way out by air if you so choose. It can also be pushed back in by hand if the mechanism fails simply by collapsing the accordions. The hose is unpressurized when you release the extend button, so no pressure exist when the cap is removed. Since the hose drops out the bottom so with gravity it is pretty clean and empty after flushing with the grey water. I replaced my sewer hose last year although it was still functional with no leaks. I suspected the original hose was never replaced. It just looked a little beat up. These are expensive thick walled quality sewer hoses which should last many years.

The biggest negative about the whole system's design is that the Glendinning mechanism is buried behind the water bay and difficult to access. If the shore cord power fails with the shore cord extended, there is no other way to manually retract the hose but manually rotating the Glendinning. It is not hand push-able back. The issue is further exacerbated due to the shore cord being delivered out the drop door. There is no way to temporarily coil the shore cord up into a bay or raise the drop door. So...your stuck until you get the shore cord recoiled back into the drop door.