Date:         Fri, 5 Jul 2013 00:05:16 -0500
Reply-To:     Jeff Palmer <jpalmer@MYMTS.NET>
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From:         Jeff Palmer <jpalmer@MYMTS.NET>
Subject:      Re: Fridge go POOF!
Comments: To: David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
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Must have been air!  I disconnected the tube from the tank to the pump and water flowed (slower than I expected but still flowed).  Plugged it back in and water flowed.  Strange.  The air bubble seemed to appear arbitrarily!  Anyways I have water.

And a working propane fridge.  

No baby monitor.  I can hear them babble away without it.

Thanks to everyone for the last minute advice!  You'd think I was new to this but actually have owned my van for 20 years this year (I'm 41).  Haven't camped much in the last four years since my oldest was born.

For anyone not watching fireworks who wants to see where I'm going, search for Black Lake campground, Nopiming Provincial Park in Manitoba.  Only about 200 km away from Winnipeg but might as well be on the other side of the earth.

Jeff
85 Westfalia
Winnipeg

On 2013-07-04, at 9:25 PM, David Beierl wrote:

> At 10:10 PM 7/4/2013, jpalmer@mymts.net wrote:
>> Cleaned out the fresh water tank with a bit of bleach and ran
>> through the lines. Turned on the pump to flush. So far so good.
>> Turned on the pump again and it must have picked something up?  Runs
>> but no output. New pump two years ago. Argh!  Where is the most
>> likely plug?  In the tank or at the pump?
> 
> If it's the newer kind with a little centrifugal pump in the tank it
> may just be air bound.  Suck on the faucet while the pump is running,
> see what happens.
> 
> I've never seen the external pump, dunno how they work.
> 
> Yrs,
> d
>