We had an odd occurrence with our incoming water hose between our last stop in Sante Fe, NM, and our current location in Las Cruces.
I noticed when I put the hose away on the reel, more water than usual seemed to be dripping out as I screwed on the hose cap. I held the hose out over the gravel near the driver side of the coach and allowed what I thought was all the water in the hose to drain out.
To be safe, however, we put a 1 gallon ZipLoc bag over the end. When we arrived in Las Cruces and checked the hose, the ZipLoc was about half full. Obviously, that would have been all over the reel bay if we hadn't bagged the hose.
My first thought is/was altitude changes? We stopped at Raton Pass, NM (~7,900 feet) before Sante Fe (~7,200). We're now in Las Cruces, NM (~3,900). We've seen the altitude effect in a lot of other stuff — e.g., air-filled "pillows" retained from Amazon shipments, which we use to pack around breakables in the pantry.
Has anyone encountered this hose discharge? Could it be from descending in altitude or do we have another problem? Related question: we don't ever fill our fresh water tank to a true 100% (our SeeLevel sensor is mounted slightly down from the top), but could any of that discharge have been somehow siphoning from the fresh water tank?
With thanks always for the great knowledge on this Forum!
It could be your fresh water inlet check valve has failed, as those are the symptoms we had. You might be able to check by turning on the water pump and see if water comes out the hose on the reel. If it does, it's likely the check valve.
Super suggestion! Thank you, Michelle.
Yup, Michelle is on top, as usual. We always shut down the park hook-up and open the faucets to drain the psi/flow into the sink/bath. I don't trust the check valves. Leaving the aux pump on is easy to do, by the way.
Get a hose end plug from lowes or Home Depot in garden department