Electric waste valves

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kseagle

Active Member

• Jan 11, 2014

• #1

Has Heartland considered offering electric waste valves as an option on the Landmarks?

 

Lynn1130

Well-known member

• Jan 11, 2014

• #2

Sounds like something else that could go wrong

 

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djlogan

Active Member

• Jan 11, 2014

• #3

My sentiments exactly. A solution in search of a problem. A friend has electric dumpers on a Cedar Creek nod has had two separate malfunctions in a year.

 

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jbeletti

Well-known member

• Jan 12, 2014

• #4

I've heard nothing about Heartland considering this. I don't see it happening.

 

jmgratz

Original Owners Club Member

• Jan 12, 2014

• #5

We had electric gate valves on our Alfa Gold. They failed on 3 separate occasions and had to be replaced. As for me I would rather have the manual ones. As someone else said, it is just something else that can (and probably will) fail.

 

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mobilcastle

Well-known member

• Jan 13, 2014

• #6

That is an item that I would not want either. What a mess if you could not dump your tanks. Worse case with a cable break is you could drop part of the belly pan and reach in and manually pull the valve at the body. With electric-what if the power is out?

 

Silverado23

Iowa Chapter Leaders

• Jan 23, 2014

• #7

The electric waste valves that Valterra offers appear to have a manual pull handle that you could probably use if the electric system on it failed.
http://www.valterra.com/RV/oem_waste_valve_assemblies.htm