Cold water system

GC.....do you have a pressurised system or a microswitch system?

If you have wires going up to the taps it is microswitch.

Hi again K,

Yes it is a pressurized system with micro switches on the taps.

Having read your in depth posts I can only confirm that you are on the right track.

I'm obviously missing something to get the water from supply to taps, like the newbie numpty I apparently am!! 

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Yes it is a pressurized system with micro switches on the taps. ....

They are two different systems. Pressurised systems have a pressure switch that detects a drop in pressure & runs the pump up until the system is back to pressure ie you open a tap, pressure switch sees drop in pressure, runs pumps, you get water out of tap, you close tap and the pump can now pressurise the system which the pressure switch sees & stops the pumps. Microswitched system works by switching the pump on via any of the microswitchs on each of the taps.

Hmm.

Have you unplugged the external pump?  If not, do that now.

Is your internal pump in the onboard tank, or separate?

Which way have  you got the valve on the pipework set?

When you open a tap, which pump runs?

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Yes it is a pressurized system with micro switches on the taps. ....

They are two different systems. Pressurised systems have a pressure switch that detects a drop in pressure & runs the pump up until the system is back to pressure ie you open a tap, pressure switch sees drop in pressure, runs pumps, you get water out of tap, you close tap and the pump can now pressurise the system which the pressure switch sees & stops the pumps. Microswitched system works by switching the pump on via any of the microswitchs on each of the taps.

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The micro switches only kick in when it senses water pressure, so Im led to believe

Oh dear, I'm afraid you have been mis-informed!

Not that that has any bearing on your present situation.

Hmm.

Have you unplugged the external pump?  If not, do that now.

Is your internal pump in the onboard tank, or separate?

Which way have  you got the valve on the pipework set?

When you open a tap, which pump runs?

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The onboard tank has its own pump,

The valve is in the off position, as the tank is full and dont require feed from that pipe, (which goes to the Whale pump connection).

We're back home now, later I shall fill the vessels up with water and try to fathom (ahem! ) 

It all out without any pressure (ahem!) off my dearest better half.

Can you, later, look at your handbook and confirm whether it shows (on around page 25) a diagram of a typical water layout?

If so, does it show there being only one pipe to/from the onboard tank?

Is that in fact what you have in the van?

If so, if you close the valve on that pipe, you cannot get any water to the taps from that tank.

The valve should only be closed if you wish to use direct from the Aquaroll.

Regarding the internal pump, what I was asking is whether it is actually IN the tank, or somewhere on the visible pipework.  I would expect it to be in the tank if your pipework is as shown in the handbook.

Just trying to build up an accurate picture of exactly what you have.

The handbook I have seen is not particularly informative IMO.

Did you unplug the external pump when you had finished filling the onboard tank, as per the handbook instructions? 

Not doing so may have some (not immediately obvious) affect on getting/not getting water to the taps.

BTW....you could do worse than join up on SwiftTalk, quite a few helpful owners and Swift people on there.

K, your a star, I'll go see Swift talk now,

I shall report back later in the week when I have time to go thru the system again.

Cheers for your input

Dave

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Yes it is a pressurized system with micro switches on the taps. ....

They are two different systems. Pressurised systems have a pressure switch that detects a drop in pressure & runs the pump up until the system is back to pressure ie you open a tap, pressure switch sees drop in pressure, runs pumps, you get water out of tap, you close tap and the pump can now pressurise the system which the pressure switch sees & stops the pumps. Microswitched system works by switching the pump on via any of the microswitchs on each of the taps.

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The micro switches only kick in when it senses water pressure, so Im led to believe

 

No they don't ..... it works as described above