Valterra RV Starter Kit w Pure Power Blue - 25' Fresh Water Hose, Regulator - 10' Sewer Hose

Video Transcript for Valterra RV Starter Kit with Pure Power Blue Fresh Water Hose Review K88121

What's up everybody it's AJ with etrailer.com. Today we're going to be checking out this RV starter kit from Valterra. It's got a bunch of different items in here that's going to help you if this is your first time taking your rig out. I think we're going to go over each one individually and show you how they work. But, I think we're going to make some recommendations along the way, that way you can build up on your kit too. Let's take a closer look.

First thing we're going to check out is our freshwater hose. This one spans 25 feet, so that's plenty to get this end to your city water connection at the camp site, and this end to your rig. Now the kit does also include this water regulator. You're going to screw this on the side that connects to the city water connection on the campsite. And it's going to help regulate the pressure coming out, because those things might have a hundred psi of pressure coming through your pipes on your rig aren't designed for that.

You could actually blow one of them and it might not be right then, but it could be down the line when it's harder to fix, so having one of these is really helpful. Dropping from a hundred psi to a safe 50 psi that your rig can handle.Now we're ready to hook up our hose to our rig. Want to go to the city water connection right here, and just screw it in. Now the water can run up into here and you've got water. Now, things I recommend adding to, as you can see, the hose can come down and get pinched because it has no support.

So, you can get one of these brass hose savers, that actually screws into this side, and the bend will be here in the brass. So you don't have to worry about damaging your hose over a long time.We're going to screw that one in, the same way we would do the hose. Get my hand out of the way so you guys can see. Now we attach our hose down here. And you can see there's no more bend, it goes straight down.

It's not putting any extra stress on the hose, it's here and this is going to hold up way longer along with the hose lasting way longer with the help of this. Another thing I would think about adding is a water filter. They have external ones that'll screw in right here between the hose and our hose saver here. That way, the water from the campsite is filtered on its way into your rig, because you don't know how good they have it filtered, and sometimes it's just not good water. You want to make sure it's nice and filtered for when you got inside.This is the power converter that comes with the kit. It works with 15 to 30 amps. So if you have a 30 amp plug on your rig, like we do here, you can just plug it in like that. Now you can plug it in to your house, or like your garage or something like that. If you we're setting up your RV for the weekend, you're getting it cleaned up, you want the lights on just run the electricity, you can plug in your house with this adapter. Now I don't know necessarily if this is the best way to do it, I would be more inclined to get a power cord like this, this kind of adapter, because I think it's just going to hold up way longer. And when you're messing with electricity, you want to make sure you're safe and your equipment doesn't wear out. So you can see how much more heavy duty this one is and it's easier with the inaudible 00:03:13 to unplug it.The kit also comes with two extra items that I think are pretty helpful. You got toilet paper and the bile pouch. Now the toilet paper is two ply, but it's good to remember that you can't use your household toilet paper on your rig. The plumbing's not designed for that, it's going to cause problems if you try and use that. So stick with the two ply, that way it'll make removing the waste way easier. And along with that, the bio pouch. You drop that in the toilet tank, or you drop that in your toilet, sorry. And then it helps break down all the stuff in your tank. So it's going to break down the toilet paper and waste that way when you go to remove it, it's going to be less of a problem, but it also helps find odor that might build up inside the rig too.Next up, we have the sewer hoses. But before we even touch the sewer hoses, you should always be wearing gloves when you're messing with that. The Sewer hose itself spans 10 feet long, fully extended. Feels like it's pretty durable. I can push on it. It doesn't feel like it's going to crush easily and I can pull it pretty tight here. And it doesn't seem like it's going to rip. I don't see anything about the rip here. So that's good for when you're fully extending it to get to the dump tank and they have plenty of room with it. It's got a bayonet fitting on this side so we can attach it here, just turn. And these would slide into place and lock it in. The only thing I don't like is that it doesn't come with the sewer attachment here on this end and you can buy it separately, but I feel like if you're buying a starter kit, it should probably be included.That being said, I wanted to give you another option. Valterra also offers a kit with the easy coupler which got this hose. It has both ends on it that way they're not leaving you having to buy an extra part. You got the bayonet fitting on this side. And this side, it comes with the sewer attachment. That just goes on there. The bayonet style like I said, just twist it in place. It's locked in there. This is an all in one kit here. I liked that it has the sewer connection because it fits three, three and a half and four inch dump inaudible 00:05:11 that way, whatever size it is at the campsite, it's going to fit. Also clear so you can see when you're dumping the tank and it's clear in here, it's all clean.Overall. I think it's an okay starter kit. I think it's missing some crucial items that you're going to need on your adventures. That's why I recommended some extra stuff to help build on if you go with this one, or if you go with the other one I recommended, you can still add those extra things on there and make life easier. I think that does it for our look at this kit. I hope that helped..