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Shower Thrills

Yahoo Message Number: 17985
We almost always dry camp and the shower won't adjust to an even temp on the pump - scalds you - then ice cold and cycles back and forth.
Never have tried it on shore water. The shower has a hot and a cold knob - not a single lever so some of the earlier suggestions won't work because I wasn't specific enough. I don't have a winterizer kit to interfere. Some suggested a hi output pump - seems like that would just increase the cycling on/off. Guess I might find room in the water bay for a small surge tank but still that doesn't sound like it would fix the shower problem. Any ideas?

Thanks,

Glen L Pankratz

40' '98 Intrigue #10616

Re: Shower Thrills

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Yahoo Message Number: 17986
From: "bojangles5169" jjpandglp@...>
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We almost always dry camp and the shower won't adjust to an even temp > on the pump - scalds you - then ice cold and cycles back and forth. (snip)
It may vary in your CC, but try first fully turning on the hot knob THEN turn on the cold knob to get a good temperature mix.

Dick (& Geri) Campagna
'98 36' Intrigue #10571
Mfd: 11/97

Re: Shower Thrills

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Yahoo Message Number: 17987
That's exactly what we do and it has always worked just fine.
Ron 98 Allure 30185

Dick Campagna wrote:
 

Re: Shower Thrills

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Yahoo Message Number: 17996
Glen:

The shower changes from hot to cold and back to hot because you get different flow rates through the hot and cold systems at different pressures. My guess is you have a restriction in one of the systems. The first thing to find out is which system is restricted. If it gets hotter as the pressure drops, your restriction is in the cold water side, if it gets colder then the inverse is true.
This could get very messy to fix, but once you know which side seems to be restricted, you need to remove connectors, and check the tubing. Somewhere something is likely partially plugging it up, and it is likely at a fitting junction.
The other thing you could do is install an accumulator, the largest one for which you can find room. This will not solve the problem, but will slow the oscillations enough where you can adjust for them. An accumulator will cause the pressure to drop slowly, instead of very rapidly, and when the pump cycles on the pressure will rise again, also slowly. A two gallon accumulator will slow things down enough so you can make small adjustments as you shower.

Good luck!
Al

2000 Intrigue 10979