Fresh Water tank filled up when hooked to city water
Good Morning all,
Thought I'd relate an experience from this past weekend regarding a water issue that we had to get some feedback from others. Last weekend, after dewinterizing our Keystone Outback 25OURS, we discovered that we had water leaking from the side of our unit around the fresh water fill up cover. After some investigation, we were surprised to discover that our freshwater tank (which we have never used) was full and overflowing, even though we were hooked up to city water. We have a pressure regulator on our line and always have...
After some trouble shooting, I came to the conclusion that one of two things had happened....first, we thought that maybe a valve inside the water pump had stuck open, perhaps from the winterizing process at the dealership...though in my mind this seemed unlikely as we've never used the pump or the fresh water tank...and we were pretty sure that the dealership did not either.
Second, the pressure in our water line may have "spiked" thus forcing water back through the pump and into the fresh water tank...So I went outside to check...the first night our pressure regulator was reading 45psi after hooking up to the water at our RV park...by the next morning the gauge was reading over 60psi...
I think this was the culprit, and so I added an additional pressure regulator to work in tandem with the first....this seemed to eliminate the problem. H
Has anyone else ever experienced this? I'm thankful that there was no apparent damage to any of our lines...everything else is functioning properly and no more issues with the tank filling up...
Thanks
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