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Title: help needed flooded van
Post by: dave f on February 20, 2017, 06:47:52 pm: flooded van got multi meter out tested it seems ok so refiled van to night same thing float is correctly in off position but water is still passig when level is reached so I manualy lifted float water stopped I did this a few times ok but when let the water lift float water passes any one any idea
Title: Re: hel needed flooded van
Post by: dazmond on February 20, 2017, 06:51:03 pm: i flooded my new van on the first day using it and nearly set it on fire today!beat that! ;D
Title: Re: help needed flooded van
Post by: ֍Winp®oClean֍ on February 20, 2017, 07:39:00 pm: Sounds like the actual "float" part is faulty. I've had Two go in 13 years. You need to decipher why the float isn't pushing the valve arm up anymore.
Title: Re: help needed flooded van
Post by: Don Kee on February 20, 2017, 07:39:10 pm: Wrong way around daz, flood it after you've set it on fire ::)roll ::)roll ::)roll
Title: Re: help needed flooded van
Post by: dazmond on February 20, 2017, 07:40:10 pm: Quote from: Don Kee on February 20, 2017, 07:39:10 pm
Wrong way around daz, flood it after you've set it on fire ::)roll ::)roll ::)roll

;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: help needed flooded van
Post by: dave f on February 21, 2017, 06:15:07 am: its lifting the float that the problem tried a couple of times with my finger water stopped so I have got a new one just wonderd if it could be the pressure switch as well I will se when I fit the new float switch
Title: Re: hel needed flooded van
Post by: Smurf on February 21, 2017, 02:04:45 pm: Quote from: dazmond on February 20, 2017, 06:51:03 pm
i flooded my new van on the first day using it and nearly set it on fire today!beat that! ;D

I'm sure you will beat that dazmond yourself as I'm just waiting for the next thing to happen.
Should we start calling you frank (spencer) from now on? lol
Title: Re: help needed flooded van
Post by: richard groves on February 21, 2017, 03:48:53 pm: When I used to fill my van tank from an ro I didn't have anything as automated as a float switch. I fitted an overflow just at the full level on tank. My van even had a convenient grommet in the floor that I removed for the 1/2 " overflow hose to drop through. If I over filled water ended up on the road under the van . makes for a good fail safe even with a float switch. :)
Title: Re: help needed flooded van
Post by: duncan h on February 21, 2017, 04:12:49 pm: Not sure why you need multi meter. Isnt it mechanical?
If so, disconnect pipe, blow while moving arm. Does it work. They should last year. Same as a toilet system does
Title: Re: help needed flooded van
Post by: AuRavelling79 on February 21, 2017, 07:21:16 pm: If your finger lifts the arm but the float doesn't then I reckon you've got a little hole in the float which means it lets water in and keeps it in the down position.
Title: Re: help needed flooded van
Post by: dave f on February 21, 2017, 09:47:41 pm: sorted faulty solenoid switch