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Hey guys, Kevin here with etrailer. And today I'm going be showing you how to install the SeeLevel RV Tank Monitor System. So the SeeLevel Tank Monitoring System is going to give you a more precise reading of what your tanks are actually at. So if you look at your older style tank readers you're gonna have a full, a two thirds, one third, or empty. That sensor that's in your tank is honestly only gonna read you up to one third. So anything past one third, it's gonna assume that you're empty.
Whereas, with our new sensors, every inch on here there's a new sensor. So it's going to give you a more precise reading so that you know, "Hey when I hit one third, I'm not actually empty, I still have this much more to go". So that I can plan whether I need to dump out my grey or my black tank, or if I need to go fill up my fresh water tank. So depending on what kind of system you have, with our trailer today, ours is going to monitor our battery, our fresh, our grey, our black, and then also power our water pump. But this also comes with other monitors that come without the monitor pump button or will come with a gas button, so that you can also monitor how much gas you have.
So for this install you can expect it to be fairly straightforward. Just because we're only replacing a monitoring system that already existed. So we're easily just tapping into those wires. If this was a new build maybe you have an enclosed trailer and you're adding this in, you'd have to run the wires yourself. But obviously, if it's a brand new build it'd be a little bit easier to run the wires through.
It's fairly simple, all you're doing is hooking up a wiring harness that's going to connect to your monitor, and then just splicing those wires together. And then splicing your wires running from your sensors over to your monitor. All right, so here's what you're gonna get in your SeeLevel kit. It's gonna come with a monitor, a wiring harness that'll plug right into the back of your monitor for easy hookup into your system. You're gonna have three different strips with it.
These are the 12-inch strips but this can also so come in 16-inch. And what you're gonna have to do, depending on the size of your tank, is you're going to cut right in between the sensors here. One thing I do wanna say though is as you cut this down to length, you're taking away the sensitivity basically of this. So, in your tank sensors that are on your RV are going to be basically, just three sensors showing one third, two thirds, or full. Whereas, this has a sensor about every single inch, to give you a more accurate reading of what your tank's actually at. So taking away any of these is gonna cut down that sensitivity, thus giving you less accurate of a reading. So at the top of your strip you're going to see these little squares here with little indicators for what they are for. Inside of your manual it's going to show you which ones of these that you're going to cut, depending on the specific tank. Say, I was putting this on my grey tank, I would come over and I would cut right through this and cut that little tip off. Same thing if I was doing it with my black tank. And there's also a fail safe, kind of built in. So that say I was meaning to put this in my black tank but I accidentally cut out the grey. There's a different piece that we can cut, which you can find in your manual, which will make it so that it knows that you're actually wanting to cut the black. All right, so now down under the trailer, we can see we have our three water tanks. We have two black ones and a white one. Our white one is gonna be our fresh water tank. Our two black ones are gonna be our grey tank and our black tank. The easy way to determine which is which, your black tank's gonna have a three-inch pipe for its drain whereas your grey water tank's only gonna have an inch and a quarter. So that make it real easy to determine which is which so that you make sure you put the right sensor on the right tank. All right, so before I do any cutting I wanna make sure I'm not gonna be overlapping off of the tank, 'cause it is rounded here in the corner. So I think I am gonna have to cut it down just one more piece here, yeah. That way, we're right dead-on with our tank. So I'm just gonna take a pair of scissors and trim this last sensor off just like that. And then up here, I'm gonna peel back our backing just a bit. I know this is my black tank so I'm gonna cut off my black tab so that the sensor knows where it's going. As you can see the wires on each of these are facing over the