Date:         Mon, 28 Jun 2004 22:06:26 -0500
Reply-To:     Jim Felder <felder@KNOLOGY.NET>
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From:         Jim Felder <felder@KNOLOGY.NET>
Subject:      Making water level LED indicators work
Comments: To: pete owsianowski <pnocean@EARTHLINK.NET>
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Let me give you some simple advice I got from David Brodbeck a while
back. Find the ground wire in the harness that goes to the connectors
on the side of the tank (I think it's the fat black wire at the bottom,
but if it's not, please try to keep other listmembers from burning my
house down), and clip a long wire from it where you can run it to
another known good ground in the van.

If your leds are working properly now, just run a new ground wherever
you can get to some metal inside the cabinet.

After looking at one thing or another for weeks, and checking the
resistance of this and that, it turned out to be the ground. I cleaned
and adjusted everything I could find, but no dice. Try this first as it
is the easiest... and worked for me.

Jim


On Jun 28, 2004, at 9:24 PM, pete owsianowski wrote:

> My pump is working, as I posted earlier, but I noticed when the tank
> had
> water in it, only the red indicator light was on even though the tank
> was
> 3/4 full.  Is there any way to clean off the sensors?  Or, maybe
> change them
> out?
>
> Pete
> '87 Westy
> "Joe's Van"
>
>> On a weekend camping trip last weekend, the water pump/faucet
>> wouldn't work.
>> Fuses are OK, have the requisite 12V coming off the fuse.  Water level
>> sensor works and is accurate.  Is it a faulty submersible water pump
>> or an
>> bad electrical connection at the faucet?  How does one trouble shoot
>> the
>> problem or are submersibles fairly inexpensive, so why not replace
>> and see
>> what happens
>>
>> Went camping this weekend without checking all systems. Filled
>> the water tank, but it wouldn't pump.  Fuse is OK,water
>> level sensor is accurate.  Is the pump bad?  The faucet
>> connection?  Also, when I got home, plugged therefrigerator
>> to 120 vac--doesn't seem to work, although itdid in my
>> previous system check--don't know if this isrelated or not.
>> Refrig fuse is OK.  Can anyone advise onhow I should proceed
>> with the troubleshooting?
>