I want an electric water pump on my chaser

[ddog45]

I have searched and searched and had no luck. I have plenty of power on my trailer to run a pump. I really dont ever use much water due to having to use the hand pump. I would like to have the hand pump on one side of the tank and an electric water pump on the other side of the tank. Im lazy I want to flip a switchand have water in my cup.

thanks

 

[Corey]

I saw a video of someone who used the battery pump like I have for a 5 gallon bottle for the office water coolers installed on his Chaser or Horizon.
It worked good.

Sorry, I can not find the link at this time.
It is the same pump I have though in the camping gear thread.

 

[Corey]

Found it.
http://expeditionportal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=15608

Here is a YouTube video of if on a Horizon trailer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cw2dx8322AQ

Great little pumps, same one I have.

 

[corbin8or]

you could also run an air tank to it and pressurize the water tank just a little and do same thing...
and you don't have to find a sterile pump to run water through as it would go through same spigot

 

[ddog45]

I never thought of the air thing. I haul around 19 gallons of water and never use much of it due to all of the pumping and pumping and pumping.
The battery powered pump is a good idea but my tank has a much larger filling cap or whole or whatever you want to call it.

 

[R_Lefebvre]

You could get one of the Coleman Hot Water On Demand units. I got one for $150 and will be building it into the trailer. It's SOOOOOO nice. It can be used to pump cold water too.

 

[Martyn]

Found it.
http://expeditionportal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=15608

Here is a YouTube video of if on a Horizon trailer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cw2dx8322AQ

Great little pumps, same one I have.

We used to use these pumps as standard, but they have an issue.

As they age the on/off switch has a tendency to turn itself on. People were coming back to camp and finding their water tanks completely empty.

 

[Corey]

Ninja squirrels no doubt were turning on the pumps

 

[Casper]

You could get one of the Coleman Hot Water On Demand units. I got one for $150 and will be building it into the trailer. It's SOOOOOO nice. It can be used to pump cold water too.

I second this. I have had mine now with 0 issues. Had it for about 5 years and love it. Only problem I see is that I tend to use 'too much" water since it is so easy.

Casper
:coffeedrink:

 

[R_Lefebvre]

I'm also going to try and "hack" it so that there is a button to run the pump without firing the ignitor system. I don't know why they designed it that way. At least on ours, the ignitor fires even if you want cold water.

 

[Casper]

Same with mine, but it doesn't bother me all that much. Plus, I use it about every other weekend during the summer, and for 3 weeks constant in May and ussually only charge it once at the begining of the summer and once around the end of August.

Here is how I have it set up.

As you can see I leave the pump in the tank all the time, just pull the cap I made, hook it up and vala, water, heated if you want on demand. I will be replacing the plasic tubb at some point with a stainless steel one at some point because white plastic is hard to keep white.

Casper
:wings:

 

[R_Lefebvre]

How did you get a thread to match the pump? I've been trying to figure out how to hook mine up to the bulk water tank. And I'm surprised it can draw vertically like that? Mine won't. Maybe they changed the pump?

 

[ddog45]

I have a zodi shower so I dont really want to buy the coleman hot water unit. I was hoping I could find some kind of faucet that was reliable and wasy to use. Maybe Im dreaming again. I would like to take the hand pump off of the chaser black tank and replace it with something better. I dont want wires and tubes going everywhere.
A valve on the bottom of the tank may be a good option in the end.
Keep the ideas coming.
thanks

 

[ntsqd]

Did I miss why the typical RV demand pump won't work in this application? Sounds like it's made for it.

 

[R_Lefebvre]

Other than the price... I got the hot water unit for the same price as a on demand pump. That being said, I may replace the pump with an RV unit if I can't figure out how to hook up the pump to my bulk tank. I wouldn't use an on-demand unit though. I'll use the power supply from the Coleman system.