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Originally Posted by Kevin Cooper
Struvite is only in black tanks. Two of the three elements in gray tank are missing. Soap scum is more likely the issue in gray tanks. Bar soap can cause the problem. Try 1 cup of Borax dissolved in hot water and poured in, and a cup of liquid degreaser product into 5-10 gallons of water. https://a.co/d/c1t2lEz Drive to your next site, leave it in until you have to dump. Do it a few more times. Your sensors should start working.
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At one time or another, I've tried everything you mentioned and a few other things you didn't mention. Nothing really seemed to work with any consistency or at all. The things I mentioned in my original response were tried over the last few weeks while I was parked at a full hookup location. I wasn't trying to rid my tank of struvite. I was trying to rid my tank of anything that happened to be in there that would make my sensors give false readings, struvite or otherwise.
FWIW, I don't "need" my sensors to work. I know how long it takes to fill the tanks under normal use. Most of the time, I am at a site for a shorter amount of time than it takes to fill the tanks. Only once in the last year was I at a campground long enough to worry about dumping my tanks into a portable tank before they overflowed.
The reason I try to clean my sensors is because it is a source of irritation that they don't provide a correct reading.
The only thing that I have tried that worked was Clorox. I know. Clorox is bad. But I know it works, or worked, on a previous trailer I owned. I may try it once on this trailer when I get to a location where I can dump the tanks without upsetting the ecosystem