Greetings, I am new to the whole 5th Wheeling experience and have purchased a 2013 Cyclone 4100.
I have a few questions regarding the freshwater tank.
First, all the sensors for the grey and black tanks seem to work fairly accurately, however for the freshwater tank, the sensors are not good. I know based on other threads that the sensors cannot be expected to be wonderful and I understand for the grey and black tanks why this would be the case, But for the freshwater tank I am a bit surprised that it is so bad.
Basically when the tank is empty, it reads empty on the sensor display. When it has about 10 seconds of water in it it, it reads full. Since its a brand new unit, I would expect it to be better than that. It reads full from then on, until its empty again. I thought at first filling it maybe made a sensor wet and read wrong but it stays saying full.
This makes filling the freshwater tank problematic since I have no real way of knowing when it actually full which leads to my second issue.
It was my understanding there should be some sort of overflow hose or thing in place for the freshwater tank. This would, in case of overfilling, allow the excess water to flow out of this hose somewhere. In my case, the first time filling the freshwater tank, since the sensor just says "Full" all the time, I was watching my watch and waiting for water to come out of some hose somewhere to tell me it was full so I could just time my fills from then on. However instead of a hose starting to drain off water, water just began pouring from all over the plastic shield cover on the underside of my 5th wheel. Anywhere it found a "Low" spot in the cover, it drained water. Since I imagine wires, and all kinds of things are protected behind that cover I would think water sitting in there and pouring out in various places is a real bad thing.
So my questions are these -
1) Should I have a repair person look at the sensors for the freshwater tank? Is there any point or are they really that bad usually?
2) How long should I let my freshwater tank fill for, safely? Obviously when I need to fill it I want to have as much water in it as possible but don't want to ruin anything by overfilling.
3) Should there be a overflow hose somewhere and if so where would it be on my Cyclone 4100?
4) I have read a lot of threads where people say to remove that cover underneath the 5th wheel and take a look yourself. Never mind that that would be like handing a hammer to a 2 year old in a glass shop and telling them to have fun. (Based on my experience thus far) but there are all kinds of brackets and mounts attached to the outside of that cover as well such as the drain pipes for the grey and black tanks etc so I'm not sure how good it would be to just start ripping things apart. Any advise in this area?
Appreciate the help ahead of time!
I have a few questions regarding the freshwater tank.
First, all the sensors for the grey and black tanks seem to work fairly accurately, however for the freshwater tank, the sensors are not good. I know based on other threads that the sensors cannot be expected to be wonderful and I understand for the grey and black tanks why this would be the case, But for the freshwater tank I am a bit surprised that it is so bad.
Basically when the tank is empty, it reads empty on the sensor display. When it has about 10 seconds of water in it it, it reads full. Since its a brand new unit, I would expect it to be better than that. It reads full from then on, until its empty again. I thought at first filling it maybe made a sensor wet and read wrong but it stays saying full.
This makes filling the freshwater tank problematic since I have no real way of knowing when it actually full which leads to my second issue.
It was my understanding there should be some sort of overflow hose or thing in place for the freshwater tank. This would, in case of overfilling, allow the excess water to flow out of this hose somewhere. In my case, the first time filling the freshwater tank, since the sensor just says "Full" all the time, I was watching my watch and waiting for water to come out of some hose somewhere to tell me it was full so I could just time my fills from then on. However instead of a hose starting to drain off water, water just began pouring from all over the plastic shield cover on the underside of my 5th wheel. Anywhere it found a "Low" spot in the cover, it drained water. Since I imagine wires, and all kinds of things are protected behind that cover I would think water sitting in there and pouring out in various places is a real bad thing.
So my questions are these -
1) Should I have a repair person look at the sensors for the freshwater tank? Is there any point or are they really that bad usually?
2) How long should I let my freshwater tank fill for, safely? Obviously when I need to fill it I want to have as much water in it as possible but don't want to ruin anything by overfilling.
3) Should there be a overflow hose somewhere and if so where would it be on my Cyclone 4100?
4) I have read a lot of threads where people say to remove that cover underneath the 5th wheel and take a look yourself. Never mind that that would be like handing a hammer to a 2 year old in a glass shop and telling them to have fun. (Based on my experience thus far) but there are all kinds of brackets and mounts attached to the outside of that cover as well such as the drain pipes for the grey and black tanks etc so I'm not sure how good it would be to just start ripping things apart. Any advise in this area?
Appreciate the help ahead of time!
