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Since Jason hasn't posted it on here yet, I thought I'd be presumptuous and throw out an idea on the forum to see if other folks would also be into buying a piece of equipment he told me about on the phone... 
Since the 7-wire tow plug on our SuperDutys includes a 12V power lead and a ground lead, he said you can wire up a trailer plug to run a 12V vegi-oil pump. So, we could use that plug to run a dumpster-diving 12V pump and/or a 12V clean fuel (ie: storage tank-to-vehicle tank) transfer pump. This would come in really handy for me, since I plan to do some cross-country trips in my Excursion and tow a trailer of filtered WVO barrels along behind me. The idea would be to pull into a rest stop; hook up the transfer pump to the plug; pump clean oil from a barrel on the trailer into the vehicle tank; and then move on out.
Sorry for the cross-post, but I found a picture of the schematic on the powerstroke.org forum here: http://www.powerstroke.org/forum/gen...ing-plugs.html. It's also right on the cover for the trailer plug recepticle on the back of our trucks.
Anyway, to wind back around to the original point, I bought one of the DFA 12V pumps when I ordered my Excursion 40-gal tank and I just picked up a trailer plug tonight for like $6 from Lowes. Once I get the pump I'll wire it up to the plug & be rocking and rolling. If DFA offered that as a wiring option with their 12V transfer pump, I would have just bought it from them.
Would anyone else do the same? (Just trying to rally support for another reason to buy a quality DFA product!)
FYI - I think it would be cool to have a new forum section devoted to "new DFA product ideas" because Jason said to me this was just one of many of his ideas they haven't "productized" yet... I know that (speaking for myself) us newbies love to hear about stuff like this from you experienced folk... and would gladly purchase a quality, tested product vs. reinventing the wheel.
'nice weekend to all,
Eric
Since the 7-wire tow plug on our SuperDutys includes a 12V power lead and a ground lead, he said you can wire up a trailer plug to run a 12V vegi-oil pump. So, we could use that plug to run a dumpster-diving 12V pump and/or a 12V clean fuel (ie: storage tank-to-vehicle tank) transfer pump. This would come in really handy for me, since I plan to do some cross-country trips in my Excursion and tow a trailer of filtered WVO barrels along behind me. The idea would be to pull into a rest stop; hook up the transfer pump to the plug; pump clean oil from a barrel on the trailer into the vehicle tank; and then move on out.
Sorry for the cross-post, but I found a picture of the schematic on the powerstroke.org forum here: http://www.powerstroke.org/forum/gen...ing-plugs.html. It's also right on the cover for the trailer plug recepticle on the back of our trucks.
Anyway, to wind back around to the original point, I bought one of the DFA 12V pumps when I ordered my Excursion 40-gal tank and I just picked up a trailer plug tonight for like $6 from Lowes. Once I get the pump I'll wire it up to the plug & be rocking and rolling. If DFA offered that as a wiring option with their 12V transfer pump, I would have just bought it from them.
Would anyone else do the same? (Just trying to rally support for another reason to buy a quality DFA product!)
FYI - I think it would be cool to have a new forum section devoted to "new DFA product ideas" because Jason said to me this was just one of many of his ideas they haven't "productized" yet... I know that (speaking for myself) us newbies love to hear about stuff like this from you experienced folk... and would gladly purchase a quality, tested product vs. reinventing the wheel.
'nice weekend to all,
Eric
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