Managing Waste Tank Levels and Contents

[Joe Camper]

I like this idea. We have a maserator toilet already and a electronic odor control that also kills the bacteria in the process.

If we did this in ours we would be vaporizing nothing more than dirty water.

Am I nuts? Don't answer that LOL

Comments?


http://www.gmcgreatlakers.org/GMCGreatLakers/Technical/Livingarea/Thermasan-System/Pages795-800%20from%20X7425.pdf

http://www.tompatterson.com/AirstreamList/PriorMonths/2003_04/msg00538.html


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[ruthi]

Links dont work.

[Joe Camper]

Thanks Ruthi. Try it again I eddited it and checked it, works now.

[Len Silva]

That system came out in the seventies and was plagued with problems, pump failure, injectors clogging etc., etc.  In addition, they were designed around the high compression gasoline engines of that era.  I don't think our diesel exhausts get nearly hot enough.

[Joe Camper]

I can appreciate that but we have no solids to plug things where most of the rigs that it was previously tried on did. Doesn't the marine industry currently use similar stuff?

I think the exhaust temps get more than hot enough. 900 degree normal operating temp is almost double the 500 degree temp sensor the original kit provides?

How nice would it be to be able to vaporize 25 gal per hr of the waste tank.

[Sean]

I think the exhaust temps get more than hot enough. 900 degree normal operating temp is almost double the 500 degree temp sensor the original kit provides?

How nice would it be to be able to vaporize 25 gal per hr of the waste tank.

Not sure where you got these numbers.  The Thermasan requires a minimum operating temperature of 900F, which is probably hotter than most of your diesel exhaust system.  As a calibration, common paper ignites at less than 500F.

Also, the system processes only 2-5 GPH, not 25.

Let me know if you get one, though, so I can avoid driving behind you

-Sean
http://OurOdyssey.BlogSpot.com

[artvonne]

  Without reading it all, your suggesting "burning" your black poo water through your exhaust? I'm sorry, discounting the reasonable possibility of spraying down your toad with human excrement, I can just imagine the comments of those behind you trying to figure out the various smells. MMMMMM, honey, do you smell smoked ribs? No, thats not ribs, I smell cabbage casserole. At which point lil Johnie speaks up from the back seat and says no, I think it smells like $h!t, and its coming from that F%$#(@% Bus.

  Where doI get one?

[JackConrad]

At normal cruise on flat land, our pyrometer shows 450-550.  Considering our toad would be in the "line of fire", I think I will just take time to dump (an stretch my legs while doing so).  Jack

[Fred Mc]

I had a camper in the 70's that had a macerator toilet. It required maintenance and as I recall I had to go into it twice.
I don't even want to TALK to anyone that has one.

[Joe Camper]

Yes Sean in rereading I saw that, my bad. I guess back in the day when most holding tanks were only 40 gal if you could burn half off in a good days drive that was significant.

As for the masserator toilet.

The one we have is a Raritan a crown model they have been producing it the exact same model for 30 years all parts are still available and has never given any troublewhatsoever and IMO is a ourstanding feature nothing to be scared of and is installed in thousands and thousands of boats.

Most current prevo conversions have headhunter toilets and they too are masserator toilets.

The marine industry also currently still uses many similar and different waste treatment systems.

[Joe Camper]

And then there is this.

http://inspectapedia.com/septic/ECOJohn_Catalog.pdf


and this

http://www.inspectapedia.com/septic/altincinerate.htm

How bout this diagram

http://www.incinolet.com/howitworks.htm