Review on 🚀 Efficient Valterra RP800 Rocket Hand Pump: Chrome RV Camper Holding Tank Faucet Pump by Franklin Richardson

I give the product 2 stars because technically it does what it is supposed to do. Unfortunately, what it does isn't very useful in my app, which is dry camping in a converted van, and I don't see how it would be useful in any other app. I currently carry 3 6 gallon canisters and use them to fill a gallon container which I in turn use for quick filling of water bottles, pots and for cooking/cleaning. I bought this hand pump with the idea that it would be an upgrade as I could plug it right into the canister and cut out the middle fill step of a gallon jug - saving time and hassle. Unfortunately, now that the hand pump is installed in the van, I have realized that it would be more cumbersome to use than the previous method. The main problem I have is that it doesn't pump a lot of water per cycle. I haven't measured it, but I'm guessing it pumps about 1 ounce per pump. So if I wanted to fill two 20-ounce bottles of water to ride my bike, it would take me 40 pumps to fill them up. In the time it takes I can go back to my old gallon can filling method, fill my bottles one gallon and still have 88 ounces left in the gallon can, which equates to another 88 pump cycles. from a hand pump. So for me personally it's not worth it. I will be removing this hand pump and installing a 12v water pump and regular faucet in the future. I'm going back to my old method for now. Another issue with the pump is that it's not very tall, which isn't so much the fault of the pump as that others should think about before buying. For my setup, the pump was flush mounted directly onto a countertop with no sink. With no recesses like a sink, it would be impossible to place a large pot, Nalgene bottle, water bottle, or gallon jug under the faucet. So to fill anything larger than something fairly flat, I'd have to hold the container at an angle with one hand and pump with the other. In other words, it's like trying to fill a bottle with water from a well - usually you can't fill the bottle all the way because you have to hold the bottle at a weird angle. Finally, the hand pump drips a little from the faucet after pumping out the water. Since I don't have a sink under the faucet, this means that after pumping out the water while driving, a few drops of residual water from the faucet leak onto my countertop and hit a small bump. I've tested with the handle in both positions and it happens in both. Basically, the pump keeps what it promises. If it moved a decent amount of water quickly, maybe I could solve other problems I was having with it. But the bottom line is that you can fill a gallon pitcher from a larger vessel and pour from a gallon all day and save yourself a lot of time and hassle using this manual pump. If you're only interested in a few ounces of water at a time, this might be for you.