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- RV Year
- 2017
- RV Make
- Newmar
- RV Model
- Ventana 4037
- RV Length
- 40' 10"
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- Freightliner XCR
- Engine
- Cummins 400 HP
- TOW/TOAD
- 2017 Chevy Colorado
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Some of you know I did a major winter project a year ago to install electric waste gate valves in my 2017 Newmar Ventana. It was quite involved as Newmar back then used a step down from the 3 inch drain on gray to a 1.5 inch pipe and to keep this short it was just poor choice on Newmar but something I overcame by replacing the piping coming out of Gray. It sounds like Newmar got smart and took a good look at their wet bay design and now uses 3 inch piping just like on the black side.
Let me stop right here and say that in my opinion there is no better MOD than being able to dump your tanks from inside your coach. It is something I absolutely love and will never...NEVER be without in any future coaches. Drainmaster has been outstanding to work with, super helpful when I had a gazillion questions with my mod but now with the new Newmar wet bay config I cannot tell you how easy this is!
There are four bolts that hold your gray and black gate valves in between two pieces of 3 inch piping, well the center part may be your Valterra "wye" valve but that's 3 inches regardless. You remove four bolts, remove the manual gate, insert the electric gate, add four bolts and you are done! Well, now you just need 12V power. You do NOT need to remove your wet bay panel to do this and as there is a range of angle allowed if your wet bay heater is in the way you just angle your electric gate valve away from it slightly. You can easily source 12V power from the adjacent bay which is your cord reel bay.
You may want to take this slightly further and add a master on/off switch so you can't inadvertently hit a button an open a gate valve when you least expect it as you will likely get the setup with two switch pairs, one for the wet bay panel and one to go inside your coach. The master switch is offered by Drainmaster as well along with many other goodies. When ordering you'll want to specify the length of cable to go from the gate valves to the switches, this is simple "phone jack" cable that goes from the gate valve to the switch so it's nothing hard to wire, it's plug and play. I suggest asking for a 2 foot length of cable for the one that will go from the gate valve to the wet bay panel then probably a 20 foot length for the one going into your coach. The challenge is now finding a path into your coach and where you want to put the switch. It's not anything you can't figure out but it's just part of the puzzle and you can always figure that out later and just enjoy the push button option at the wet bay panel in the interim.
Now if you have sani-con it can get a little more exciting but you can always just use your stinky slinky instead if you don't want to deal with the wiring situation with sani-con. But I did so heavily coached by @Chuggs and also helped by @Stuart S in setting up a system that works just like my water pump using momentary switches, a latching controller (intellitec - as people call it a water pump controller but it's just a latching controller for any use), and a relay to pass the power to the sani-con. Again, this may be too complicated for many but it is NOT required. Setup your 3 inch stinky slinky and still enjoy the ability to dump from inside the coach. You can use sani-con when needed by dumping from the wet bay.
Moral is, again, there is no better mod than avoiding crawling under slides and dealing with pulling gate valves to dump. You can better manage your tanks this way such as when black approaches full you can close gray and let it start accumulating to help flush the black after black is dumped.
Make it happen, you will love this capability. It is so easy to install as mentioned above.
Let me stop right here and say that in my opinion there is no better MOD than being able to dump your tanks from inside your coach. It is something I absolutely love and will never...NEVER be without in any future coaches. Drainmaster has been outstanding to work with, super helpful when I had a gazillion questions with my mod but now with the new Newmar wet bay config I cannot tell you how easy this is!
Pro-Series Electric Waste Valves | Drain Master
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There are four bolts that hold your gray and black gate valves in between two pieces of 3 inch piping, well the center part may be your Valterra "wye" valve but that's 3 inches regardless. You remove four bolts, remove the manual gate, insert the electric gate, add four bolts and you are done! Well, now you just need 12V power. You do NOT need to remove your wet bay panel to do this and as there is a range of angle allowed if your wet bay heater is in the way you just angle your electric gate valve away from it slightly. You can easily source 12V power from the adjacent bay which is your cord reel bay.
You may want to take this slightly further and add a master on/off switch so you can't inadvertently hit a button an open a gate valve when you least expect it as you will likely get the setup with two switch pairs, one for the wet bay panel and one to go inside your coach. The master switch is offered by Drainmaster as well along with many other goodies. When ordering you'll want to specify the length of cable to go from the gate valves to the switches, this is simple "phone jack" cable that goes from the gate valve to the switch so it's nothing hard to wire, it's plug and play. I suggest asking for a 2 foot length of cable for the one that will go from the gate valve to the wet bay panel then probably a 20 foot length for the one going into your coach. The challenge is now finding a path into your coach and where you want to put the switch. It's not anything you can't figure out but it's just part of the puzzle and you can always figure that out later and just enjoy the push button option at the wet bay panel in the interim.
Now if you have sani-con it can get a little more exciting but you can always just use your stinky slinky instead if you don't want to deal with the wiring situation with sani-con. But I did so heavily coached by @Chuggs and also helped by @Stuart S in setting up a system that works just like my water pump using momentary switches, a latching controller (intellitec - as people call it a water pump controller but it's just a latching controller for any use), and a relay to pass the power to the sani-con. Again, this may be too complicated for many but it is NOT required. Setup your 3 inch stinky slinky and still enjoy the ability to dump from inside the coach. You can use sani-con when needed by dumping from the wet bay.
Moral is, again, there is no better mod than avoiding crawling under slides and dealing with pulling gate valves to dump. You can better manage your tanks this way such as when black approaches full you can close gray and let it start accumulating to help flush the black after black is dumped.
Make it happen, you will love this capability. It is so easy to install as mentioned above.