![]() These days, both “point of use” (POU) and “on demand” water heaters are gaining popularity in residential use for their energy-saving characteristics…and they’re showing up in RVs, too, but not the same type as we use. The main difference is that an RV water heater tank is much smaller than a house’s – generally about 5 gallons. Recently, we considered whether we should upgrade them.Ī typical RV water heater works almost exactly like the water heater in a house – it is centrally located and keeps a batch of water hot, ready for use at any of the faucets connected to it. It can definitely be done, though – the Toaster is rolling proof! The electric water heaters we put into the Toaster were a bit of a gamble, and have worked pretty well for us, but they’re not perfect. Slapping some solar panels on your rig to charge your laptop or run a TV is great, but when you start trying to replace propane-powered appliances, things get a lot harder. As an Amazon Associate we earn a small commission at no additional cost to you. It even backs up to a forested area.Disclosure: This post contains Amazon affiliate links. Oh yeah, as a bonus to our visit to the Truma headquarters in Elkhart, we got to stay for free at the back of their property, where they have put in some flat concrete pads complete with electric and water hookups for their customers who happen to be passing through. ![]() We still had about five gallons remaining when we broke camp.īottom line, if we took shorter showers trying to conserve water (which we did not do), I’m convinced we could easily get a full week of boondocking with hot showers. On that boondocking trip (it lasted five days) those eight showers drew water from our 25 gallon fresh water tank. We have showered as many as eight times (four for each of us) and still not gotten past 70% filled. Besides the water we used in the kitchen for cooking and washing dishes, our 37-gallon grey tank on the Unity was only 29% filled. In the video above, shot on a boondocking trip over a long weekend, we had taken four nice long showers. So they are not quick and in and out showers. When we are boondocking, we shower daily. Truma makes several different models.Įven when we are at a campground, Jennifer and I now prefer taking showers in our RV instead of having to lug all our stuff to a campground showerhouse, which all too often out there on the road these days is of dubious cleanliness. Truma has become pretty much the standard now in hot water heaters for many of the leading RV manufacturers. Here’s a video explaining it, along with a tour of the Truma headquarters in Elkhart, IN. ![]() I mean turn on the shower and it is hot, instantly. It provides instant and constant hot water. It has a dry, self-contained bathroom shower. They have private, hot showers for their members.īut once we got our current RV (a 2019 Leisure Travel Van Unity FX) last March, things changed. Besides being able to keep up with our fitness programs, that’s another nice reason to belong to Anytime Fitness, or a similar chain. So we almost always skipped a day or so, postponing the showers until we got to a commercial campground or we could use one at an Anytime Fitness club. That quickly deleted the fresh water tank and conversely filled the grey water tank.Įven taking those short little “Navy showers,” where you step in, get wet, turn off the water, lather up and then quickly rinse it off, taking showers in the RV – especially when boondocking – was just not worth it in our previous RVs. For another, they wasted a lot of water as you waited for the traditional RV water heaters to sufficiently warm the water. ![]() For one, the showers got the whole bathroom wet, which was a pain to dry off. In our previous Class B campervan RVs, we very seldom used the wet showers than came with them. ![]()
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