2023 Jayco Alante Uni-Dock Utility Center User Manual

The Jayco Alante 2023 has a new and flexible feature called the “Uni-Dock Utility Center” that makes it easier and more connected to use an RV. This forward-thinking feature shows how much Jayco wants to improve the camping experience as a whole. The Uni-Dock Utility Center is a hub for all of the services. It combines connections for power, water, and entertainment into a single, easy-to-use panel. This innovative feature makes it easier to set up and take care of important RV systems, making it easier than ever for tourists to enjoy their trips without having to worry about keeping track of multiple connections. The Alante’s Uni-Dock Utility Center is a great example of how Jayco is committed to providing innovative solutions that meet the changing needs of modern campers and take comfort and usefulness to new levels.

Uni-Dock Utility Center

The Uni-Doc Utility Center is located in an exterior compartment and allows you to per-form the following functions:

• The power fill the fresh water tank for remote or dry camping
• Use the pump to supply water to fixtures from the fresh water tank
• Use the pump to siphon fill or sanitize the fresh water tank from a container
• Connect to city water to supply water to RV fixtures
• Winterize plumbing lines and fixtures
• Bypass the hot water heater when winterizing to avoid damage to the water heater
• Rinse the black tank to help control odors and prevent waste buildup
• Rinse off items outside the unit with hot/cold faucet
• Connect up to (3) coax lines with satellite, cable and auxiliary

The city water connection inlet is located in the Uni-Dock utility center

4-Valve Position and Routing Information

• White Handle: Receives water from water inlet on the front panel.
  • Sideways: Water goes to pump inlet.
  • Downward: Water goes into the blue handled diverter.
• Blue Handle: Receives water from the white handle valve/water inlet on the front panel.
  • Sideways: Water goes to or comes from the fresh water tank.
  • Downward: Water goes out to the fixtures (cold).
• Red Handle: Receives water from the cold water supply.
• Sideways: Water goes to hot water fixtures without going through hot water heater.
  • Upwards: Water goes to hot water heater.
• Green Handle: Receives water from the pump.
  • Sideways: Water goes to fresh water tank.
  • Upwards: Water goes to fixtures.

Using the Utility Center

Warning
A check valve is located inside the city water connection inlet on the utility center. NEVER depress the check valve on the “CITY WATER CONNECTION” inlet with pressure in the line. It will cause irreparable damage to the valve function and the inlet will leak water.

The following information details the functions of the utility center water valves as displayed on the valve operation label.

POWER FILL TANK (pressurized fresh water source)

1. Connect the fresh water hose to the City water connection inlet on the utility center.
2. Set the color-coded valves to the POWER FILL TANK setting:
   • White handle pointing down
   • Blue handle pointing down
   • Green handle pointing left
   • Red handle pointing up
3. Connect the other end of the hose to a pressurized fresh water source (faucet or spigot).
4. Turn the pressurized water source ON, the tank should begin filling.
5. When water has reached the desired level, turn the pressurized water source OFF. DO
   NOT OVERFILL. Tank level can be viewed on the monitor panel inside the RV.
6. Disconnect water source from the spigot/faucet first, then disconnect from the city water fill inlet on the utility center.

DRY CAMPING (pump supplies water from the freshwater tank)

1. Make sure the fresh water tank has an adequate supply of water.
2. Set the color coded valves to the DRY CAMPING setting:
   
   • White handle pointing down
   • Blue handle pointing left
   • Green handle pointing up
   • Red handle pointing up
3. Turn the pump switch ON.
4. Water should be available to all fixtures.
5. Turn the pump OFF when water is not being used.

NOTE:
To fill the fresh water tank without a pressurized water source, refer to SANITIZE (Siphon Fill) section, and use a container holding fresh potable water and a hose. Water will be drawn into the tank by the pump. There is no gravity fill inlet on the recreation vehicle. DO NOT OVERFILL THE TANK!

CITY WATER (pressurized fresh water source)

1. Connect the fresh water hose to the city water inlet.
2. Set the color-coded valves to the CITY WATER setting:
   
   • White handle pointing down
   • Blue handle pointing left
   • Green handle pointing left
   • Red handle pointing right
3. Connect another end of the hose to the pressurized fresh water source.
4. Turn ON the pressurized water source.
5. Water should now be available to all fixtures.
6. Turn off the water at the pressurized source first, disconnect the hose from the water source, then disconnect the hose at the city water connection on the utility center.

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