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Water Pressure Problems

Yahoo Message Number: 16135
Our new Inspire should be ready in a week or so.
Friend of mine has 05 Inspire and told me it had low water pressure using pump or hooked to city water.
Anyone else experiencing this problem??? Reason I'm asking is I installed new Variable pressure pump on the coach I have now, and I'm debating about putting old pump back on and having this one to install on the Inspire.
Your imput is appreciated.

Horace & Deborah

06 Inspire #51577 on order.
Long Beach, CA.

Re: Water Pressure Problems

Reply #1 –
Yahoo Message Number: 16137
I have never had the amount of water pressure I feel I should have. I have replaced filters and that helps very little. Seems that in order to get enough pressure we have to use the pump along with city water hook up. I cannot find any way to increase the pump pressure slightly.

Ray

04 Inspire 51023

Re: Water Pressure Problems

Reply #2 –
Yahoo Message Number: 16142
My Allure has a built in pressure regulator that can be adjusted. A pressure gage is placed on a faucet and adjusted to the desired value. I don't know if its the same a a new coach.

Jack Foster

97 Allure 40 30076

Quote from: HB
Our new Inspire should be ready in a week or so.
Friend of mine has 05 Inspire and told me it had low water pressure > using pump or hooked to city water.
Anyone else experiencing this problem??? > Reason I'm asking is I installed new Variable pressure pump on the > coach I have now, and I'm debating about putting old pump back on

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Re: Water Pressure Problems

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Yahoo Message Number: 16143
There are many variables with water pressure. If you have a new filter then rule that out. Some people also use an external filter and if it is new rule that out. But filters will restrect the the pressure a bit that you get at the city water hookup. I use a pressure guage and always test the city water pressure at the faucet, I just like to know what it is being provided, and have seen as much a 85# and as low as 30#.

Mine and probably all CC's have a regulator installed somewhere close in the system to the water hookup. 85# of pressure would probably blow out our lines, well maybe not in a CC. The regulator is preset from the factory and probably set at about less that 45# which will not give you a shower like you get at home. I hade a repair person test my regulator and increase the pressure and it helped quite a bit, still no where near to the home shower but better. I think mine is set to about 50#. I plan to put a guage on the shower and just see how much pressure I am getting there.

I would think they could be set to some pressure that is just below the specs for the water system but I have no idea what that limit would be. If you are dry camping and increase your pressure you could fill tanks faster and this could be a reason why they are set low from the factory; kind of a tradeoff.

These are high quality regulators and CC does have a good water system so if you wanted to increase the pressure at the regulator you can, and I may go up on mine someday. If the pressure is low at the city hookup then that is a different problem to deal with.

If you have restrictors on the shower head remove those. I don't know much about our pumps, don't use mine often. They are good quality and you can probably purchase much better ones in terms of GPM of flow.

Before I had my pressure increased at the regulator the city water and pump pressure were about the same in the shower, now city hook it better.

Richard Aquino
2001 Intrigue

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Our new Inspire should be ready in a week or so.
Friend of mine has 05 Inspire and told me it had low water pressure > using pump or hooked to city water.
Anyone else experiencing this problem??? > Reason I'm asking is I installed new Variable pressure pump on the > coach I have now, and I'm debating about putting old pump back on

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Re: Water Pressure Problems

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Yahoo Message Number: 16148
Horace

I set out to install the Flo-Jet VSD pump on my 2003 Allure and noticed in the instructions that if the MH has multiple water pump switches (like CC does), then it has a pump controller installed. The VSD pump pulls a maximum of 12 amps. Many pump controllers are only rated from
7-10 amps. This means that I might have to install an upgraded pump
contoller. I'm trying to find out (previous message on this board)what the rating is of the existing OEM pump controller on my coach to determine if I have to buy another controller.

Larry, Debbie, Tiki and Tomi (Pugs) USAF retired

2003 Allure, #30856