h2guy
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If you stay in Electric City WA or anywhere around Grand Coulee Dam, you WILL need a regulator.
Signs everywhere there warn of 100+ lbs of pressure as "normal".
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Showme 5vr
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Don't mean to hijack this thread, but sirdrakjr could you define "get legs"
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I had the same problem got a high flow regulator and oxegenics shower head no more problem
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What most people have failed to state is that the regulator should be used at the faucet so that it protects both the RV and the hose. In light freezing weather this could make the difference between a safe hose and a ruptured hose.
We do volunteer work at a camp that has high pressure and the RV park is split into several levels. Well the hose on a camper on the upper level did rupture at night and the next morning the lower level had several inches of water everywhere, so we put up a sign calling it "Shaefer Lake". Ken never made the same mistake again.
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Showme 5vr wrote:Don't mean to hijack this thread, but sirdrakjr could you define "get legs"
I believe He is thinking that someone may like it amd remove it when
no one is around.
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Chuck&Gail wrote: If shower pressure is too low, did you remove the stupid government mandated flow restrictor yet? Is pressure ok using water pump? What is the problem, maybe we can help?
Never heard of this ? How do you remove that restrictor?
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DrTanTodd wrote:Chuck&Gail wrote: If shower pressure is too low, did you remove the stupid government mandated flow restrictor yet? Is pressure ok using water pump? What is the problem, maybe we can help?
Never heard of this ? How do you remove that restrictor?
Next time you are in your local hardware store, pick up a cheap (unpackaged) shower head and look up the water flow path from the threaded end. See that little hole in the plastic disk?? That's the Government Interference Disk (GID) that Chuck mentioned. Slow use of a drill bit of yur choosing can help that a LOT.
You are probably breaking some Federal Law, however. It works better then.
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I just moved to a new campground last night. MEASURED water pressure is a whopping 92 PSI!!!! I don't know how the guy keeps his CG water system together. Anyway...
Watts regulator @ 55 PSI. Installed at the fawcett. Good to go. I sleep well at night. 
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I've been using a Watts N55BG for a couple of years and it works well. I keep it set at 52# and that seems to give us good flow in the trailer.
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dsprik wrote:I had a good one and I put it away. Most of the year we spent in one CG. It ran a whopping 32 lbs press on a good day. Sometimes, we filled the onboard fresh water tank and used our onboard pump to get a decent shower. I have to go find it.
One advantage to 32 (max) psi water source... you don't fill up your holding tanks very often.
You are lucky but your experience is as you said based on always going to the same place. What happens if they upgrade the water system when you're not there? My friend & I spent a full day repairing his Class C. Every fitting was leaking from not using a regulator. I'm not saying you need a regulator for your RVing needs. I use my seat belt all the time even though I hope I never need it.
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