i would not depend on the lights to say it was totally empty. you may want to put the camper at a little tilt to the drain side and open the valve and drain it until no more water is coming out and then measure.
but no matter what, even an 8 gallon tank is terribly small would be useless to me.. my highwall popup had small waste tanks (around 10-12 gals IIRC) and i still used a waste tote (a 25 gal blue tote). That tote would last me a weekend and it made it easy to just haul it to the dump station instead of the camper. And i did not have to do any water usage management. Week long trips i would have to empty that tote every couple of days. it is big and bulky, but i felt necessary - it stored nicely on the floor of the pup --
Still use that tote with my current hybrid whenever we are camping without sewer hookup for more than 3 days and i have a 30 gal grey tank.
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HTT: "EscapeII" 2016 Shamrock 23WS (current)
PUP: "Escape" 2010 Rockwood HW 277 (gone)
TV: "Gill" 2022 RAM 2500
Just us gals (me, Sis and our daughters)
We spend alot of money to go sit in the woods
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