Motorized waste tap

[chaser]

Is there such a thing? I am sure I have seen mention of them on here, I am getting fed up of getting down on my knees on wet ground to open the grey water tap.
I have tried putting all sorts of things in eBay but nothing seems to come up.
Any ideas what I should be looking for?

 

[Podney]

Just send your wife out to do it,easypeasy lemon squeezy.

 

[cmcardle75]

Is there such a thing? I am sure I have seen mention of them on here, I am getting fed up of getting down on my knees on wet ground to open the grey water tap.
I have tried putting all sorts of things in eBay but nothing seems to come up.
Any ideas what I should be looking for?

Yes, just follow some of the links. Solenoid Valves World seems to have a fair selection. You need something full bore of around the size of your waste plumbing, plus the skills to know how to adapt the pipework, install and wire in to your satisfaction. Choose something that is a full bore ball valve. Mine's easy as it is run in 28mm copper and will directly replace a 28mm lever valve. I'll just need some 1" to 28mm male couplers. Larger bore plastic systems may need you to buy the valve and then figure out how to adapt to what you have.

In my case, I'm going to have a local and remote (cab) switch and link it into the reversing camera circuit so it automatically switches to wastecam when I energise the system ready for me to hit dump. Suitable rubbish quality reversing cams can be had for not much more than a fiver!

I paid extra both to have a manual override (in case of electrical failure) and also to have power on-power off functionality for energy efficiency.