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Title: Where best to install Seelevel monitor on fresh tank - 2003 U-320
Post by: Jim McNeece on May 23, 2013, 09:34:55 pm
My fresh water tank is an odd shape - not a nice rectangular thing like the black and gray tanks.  So, I was wondering how other people with odd shaped tanks have installed the monitor strips.

Any feedback would be helpful.

Jim
Title: Re: Where best to install Seelevel monitor on fresh tank - 2003 U-320
Post by: J. D. Stevens on May 23, 2013, 11:36:40 pm
Our fresh tank also is wider at the base, I'd guess the last 8-12" or so ... 
Ours is much wider at the top. To make SeeLevel style gauges linear at the readout, the sensors would need to be flexible to allow a bend. You engineers could probably figure out the appropriate curve. You could probably figure out how to put a microprocessor between the sensor and readout to convert. Or .... you could operate as we do with the Javelina system, and learn how many showers you can go without refilling the fresh tank or emptying the waste tanks.

On the coaches with Javelina systems, you may be able to used original wiring if you place the sensor near the original sensors. On our 1997 U295, that would be passenger side behind the water heater.
Title: Re: Where best to install Seelevel monitor on fresh tank - 2003 U-320
Post by: Bill Chaplin on May 24, 2013, 09:00:16 am
As per Pete Pennington @ Granet Technologies, Grandbury TX.

Using a second set of sensers, place one at top of tank, next just below the 1st. They are approx 12 "'s long, can be trimmed 4 inches less.
On fresh water tank, if inacseesable, mount as bottom mount, this will allow you to read full untill the water reaches the senser, then read normal to empty.

I chose to use one on each tank, did/do not care about 1st part of filling of gray and balck tank. Only wanted to know when it was getting to top of tank.

petepennington@garnettechnolgiesinc.com
817.578.8601
Title: Re: Where best to install Seelevel monitor on fresh tank - 2003 U-320
Post by: Kent Speers on May 24, 2013, 09:08:23 am
I did the same as Bill on my U225, same logic.