What's This Noise?

[Folkranger]

Pitched up on site and have had this noise going for some hours. It's a regular fast continous squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek. It sounds like it's coming from around the heater area but is loudest under the van. It is running at about 200 beats per minute. It sounds like the farmer's field sprinkler, at first I thought it was, but it's coming from my van.

I've turned off mains, 12v, pump, gas and fridge. No difference
I've run taps, drained the heater, run the gas cooker, turned off the victron charger and retracted the Goldscmitt legs. Nothing changes!
I even wonder if there could be something underground, like a pump, but short of moving the van. I doubt it.

I realy don't want to go to bed tonight with this unsorted.

 

[Landy Andy]

So you can have working leg, and noise, or no working leg, no noise. Is that correct?

Possibly a wiring fault between the two.

 

[Folkranger]

If it is the solenoid on the leg doing it you should be able to feel it vibrating when it makes the noise.

I've changed my mind, I don't think it's the leg. It was much louder in the waste tank and there was no vibration from feeling the solenoid when the noise was going.Now that the leg has started working again I doubt it is the solenoid.
Just have to do do some proper evaluation but at 35 degrees and humid it's difficult to do much but drink.

 

[Folkranger]

So you can have working leg, and noise, or no working leg, no noise. Is that correct?

Possibly a wiring fault between the two.

And working leg and no noise and no working leg and noise.

 

[Lenny HB]

Take the cover of the front of the tank housing where the waste dump solenoid is and have a look/feel. If it is that it will probably be warm.

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[Folkranger]

Ureka. It's the waste water dump valve (solenoid?)

When the connector is disconnected, the noise stops and the vale won't open to jetison the water.
Good news. It's relatively inexpensive to fix.
Bad news. If it goes altogether It'll be a devil of a job to empty the waste each time. Apparently there is a plate attached to the wast tank behind the chassis that has to be removed to empty watre by hand. Thank you Hymer designers!

 

[Folkranger]

Take the cover of the front of the tank housing where the waste dump solenoid is and have a look/feel. If it is that it will probably be warm.

Just read this Lenny. Thanks. See above post

 

[L' Hobo]

Ureka. It's the waste water dump valve (solenoid?)

When the connector is disconnected, the noise stops and the vale won't open to jetison the water.
Good news. It's relatively inexpensive to fix.
Bad news. If it goes altogether It'll be a devil of a job to empty the waste each time. Apparently there is a plate attached to the wast tank behind the chassis that has to be removed to empty watre by hand. Thank you Hymer designers!

So that only leaves the leg problem then?

 

[Lenny HB]

Ureka. It's the waste water dump valve (solenoid?)

When the connector is disconnected, the noise stops and the vale won't open to jetison the water.
Good news. It's relatively inexpensive to fix.
Bad news. If it goes altogether It'll be a devil of a job to empty the waste each time. Apparently there is a plate attached to the wast tank behind the chassis that has to be removed to empty watre by hand. Thank you Hymer designers!

I did say it was probably that days ago.

Bad news. If it goes altogether It'll be a devil of a job to empty the waste each time. Apparently there is a plate attached to the wast tank behind the chassis that has to be removed to empty watre by hand. Thank you Hymer designers!

It's not that hard.

 

[Minxy]

It'll be a devil of a job to empty the waste each time.

Nope, just make a bung for the end of the pipe and take it out when you want to empty it then stick it back in. We have a manual release lever but its located in the underfloor hatch so a pain to get at hence why we leave it open and use the bung.

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[Calamaster]

Surely the Levelling system has a fuse - pull that out and see what happens.

 

[Lenny HB]

Surely the Levelling system has a fuse - pull that out and see what happens.

keep up boy, he has found the problem.

 

[Folkranger]

I did say it was probably that days ago.


It's not that hard.

You did, but it was intermittent then the dodgy leg threw me a googly which had me looking in the opposite direction.
I'm now leaving it disconnected and only connecting at emptying to help it last the next few weeks.

When you say easy you don't know how difficult anything is for me these days. Arthritic thumbs and all.

 

[Folkranger]

Nope, just make a bung for the end of the pipe and take it out when you want to empty it then stick it back in. We have a manual release lever but its located in the underfloor hatch so a pain to get at hence why we leave it open and use the bung.

Good thinking batman. Hope I don't need to make a bung.