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The kitchen faucet stream slowed down and I checked the filter in the handle. Black particles had accumulated sufficient to slow the flow. Checked bathroom sink faucet and same thing. After checking full hot vs full cold, the black particles are coming from the hot side.

Thoughts?


Phil Horton
Newell Coach #470
Are the particles hard or rubbery? Hard could be scale from some hard water that went thought the aqua hot. Rubbery could be a pump breaking down
Many minerals that accumulate are also black and slime that gathers on other particles. You should bleach out your water system at least once a year used or not.
This is an old thread...but I think it could be a blown charcoal filter. I had same thing happen to my dishwasher...why my dishwasher was connected to the filter is another story.
(07-13-2013, 01:18 PM)lbrachfe Wrote: [ -> ]Many minerals that accumulate are also black and slime that gathers on other particles. You should bleach out your water system at least once a year used or not.

What is the process you propose to bleach the the water system?
I am going to do this in the next couple of days....I have already installed new filters and am not sure what to do about them but here goes....(feel free to critique / enhance).

1. Empty the fresh water and black/grey water tanks.
2. Pour 3 gallons of Regular bleach into home depot bucket. (not the non-splash kind). Add enough water to fill bucket.
3. Use a small electric pump to pump bleach into coach using the normal (pressure regulated) fresh water port.
3.1 If you can, use your white water hose to add the water to the coach....you want to bleach it too!
4. Fill the fresh water tank all the way to the top.
5. Open each faucet (hot and cold) until you can smell the bleach. (turn off faucet). (Don't forget the outside faucets)
5.1 Flush the toilet several times.
5.2 Run the dishwasher.
6. Dump all the ice from the freezer and set to make a new batch.
7. Wait 5 hours.

At this point you have super-chlorinated water in the entire water system. Waiting will give it time to kill all the bad things.

8. Open all the faucets so that the chlorinated water goes into the black/grey tank. Run the tank dry.
9. When the fresh water tank is empty....fill it up again with fresh water.
10. Run the fresh water through all the faucets until the chlorine smell is gone...and then a little longer.
10.1 Dump Ice, and dump second batch too.
11. Dump the black / grey tank. (Don't let the chlorine water stay in the system too long).
12. Replace filters.

That is the process I am going to follow.
Since I have new filters (drinking, refrigerator, and sediment) ...I am debating taking taking them out before doing the chlorine thing. The sediment filter is cheap and easily available so I will replace it.

Any thoughts?
bill
Bill my only suggestion would be to add something like Happy Camper or other type of microbes to the grey/black tank after dumping all of the chlorine water. That might help keep the odors down somewhat.
The only thing I do differently is that after emptying the chlorinated water from the fresh water tank I add about 1/4 tank fresh water and dump that so as to reduce the residual chlorine in that tank - mine leaves a few gallons when the drain is opened or it is pumped out and that has enough chlorine to leave a taste sometimes.
Bill, I was glad to read that replacing the filters was the last step. That has to be done or they will leach chlorine for a long time. Yuck !
My water system has been a problem since I purchased the coach. The main symptom has been low water pressure. I have had some debris in the system, and Newell told me when I was in there a week after purchasing the coach, my AquaHot was clogged with hard water scaling. I don't think I believe that now that I have learned more, but open to ideas. I did start using a water softener.

My 120v water pump finally gave out and I replaced it 3 weeks ago. Still not great water pressure, but several things happened at the same time that lead me to incorrect conclusions I think. As I installed my pump. I filled my tank from the Shore water inlet, which fills my tank from the bottom up, whereas the normal fill is from the top of the tank. At first, I thought that stirred up sediment on the bottom of my tank. I now wonder if I did not get a load of sand from the RV park because they shut off my water looking for a water leak in their system. I did not think much of it at the time, but I have been fighting extreme sediment for weeks. The largest quantity is on the hot side. Last week I got several ounces of sand out of hot side of the kitchen sink. Tonight, the same out of the hot side of the washer. 

Today, I replaced the sediment filter but that did little to help the water pressure. BTW, my sediment filter is AFTER the pump, unlike Bill's coach which is before the pump.

 I removed the cold side line from the manifold for the kitchen sink. I attached a short hose just to point water away from the bay, and opened the valve to see how much water pressure was there. The pressure was very high, and sent a stream of water an easy 25'. Thus, the new pump has the pressure but I am not getting that kind of pressure at the kitchen sink. I followed the lines and it appears to be a straight shot from the manifold to the kitchen faucet. I have cleaned the Grohe faucet handle a million times. It must be clogged before the sprayer.  Tomorrow, I am going to dismantle the lines under the kitchen sink as well as at the manifold, and try to clear the lines for the kitchen sink, then proceed to each device. I messed with the bathroom sink and now I have awesome pressure.

Any suggestions or previous experience to share?
Thanks
Mike
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