Portable showers????

[Smitty335]

With @JTW mentioning his wife and children would use it, I decided to not go there.

OW, CRAP JTW has children?

 

[Neohio]

OW, CRAP JTW has children?

2 beautiful lil girls.
Josh is VERY protective of his family. We can make jokes about him and his wife. But his children are off limits in my eyes.

 

[Smitty335]

2 beautiful lil girls.
Josh is VERY protective of his family. We can make jokes about him and his wife. But his children are off limits in my eyes.

Yep!

 

[Smitty335]

2 beautiful lil girls.
Josh is VERY protective of his family. We can make jokes about him and his wife. But his children are off limits in my eyes.

I guess I should have phrased a little different! I love/respect well behaved children, even some that are not so well behaved!

 

[JTW]

Sooo, I got the shower in today.. unfortunately my bilge pump won’t work with it. I ordered a high pressure pump to try with it. That’s what was suggested by amazon. I’ll give it a try and see how it does. The downfall is it has to have juice to work the pump and the igniter on the shower is operated by 2 D cell batteries. Now, with my limited experience with this thing and just toying with the settings a little. I notice as I’m playing with settings that if I were buying for a trailer I’d want it to be about twice as fast heating water. And I’d prefer it to handle more flow as I found full pressure from the spigot and the shower flow setting on high.. the burner can’t quite keep up with the volume. I’ll give it a try though and if I don’t like it... back to amazon she will go. The concept is great though.

 

[Smitty335]

Sooo, I got the shower in today.. unfortunately my bilge pump won’t work with it. I ordered a high pressure pump to try with it. That’s what was suggested by amazon. I’ll give it a try and see how it does. The downfall is it has to have juice to work the pump and the igniter on the shower is operated by 2 D cell batteries. Now, with my limited experience with this thing and just toying with the settings a little. I notice as I’m playing with settings that if I were buying for a trailer I’d want it to be about twice as fast heating water. And I’d prefer it to handle more flow as I found full pressure from the spigot and the shower flow setting on high.. the burner can’t quite keep up with the volume. I’ll give it a try though and if I don’t like it... back to amazon she will go. The concept is great though.

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We install 110 volt on demand water heaters on lavatories .75 GPM, 15 AMP, it's not much water, regular shower head 2.2 GPM, but enough to get clean, $ 125.00 GPM=gallons per minute.

 

[popeye]

Sooo, I got the shower in today.. unfortunately my bilge pump won’t work with it. I ordered a high pressure pump to try with it. That’s what was suggested by amazon. I’ll give it a try and see how it does. The downfall is it has to have juice to work the pump and the igniter on the shower is operated by 2 D cell batteries. Now, with my limited experience with this thing and just toying with the settings a little. I notice as I’m playing with settings that if I were buying for a trailer I’d want it to be about twice as fast heating water. And I’d prefer it to handle more flow as I found full pressure from the spigot and the shower flow setting on high.. the burner can’t quite keep up with the volume. I’ll give it a try though and if I don’t like it... back to amazon she will go. The concept is great though.

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We have some friends that have one on their pool house, he had to install a valve on the water inlet side to regulate the volume to be able to get a higher water temp out of it. Guessing with a “rv” type water pump that it would work out better


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[JTW]

We have some friends that have one on their pool house, he had to install a valve on the water inlet side to regulate the volume to be able to get a higher water temp out of it. Guessing with a “rv” type water pump that it would work out better


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I can see that.. I will probably go this route for the enclosed build.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B002JLSH5S/?tag=sxsweb24-20

 

[Smitty335]

I can see that.. I will probably go this route for the enclosed build.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B002JLSH5S/?tag=sxsweb24-20

All electric on demand water heater have to have a GPM resistor and positive pressure water flow on the inlet. If I remember right takes a 30 AMP breaker.

 

[JTW]

I don’t think propane on demand heaters need a breaker.

 

[Smitty335]

I don’t think propane on demand heaters need a breaker.

Dugh! I defiantly got side tracked!

 

[Koda]

I can see that.. I will probably go this route for the enclosed build.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B002JLSH5S/?tag=sxsweb24-20

I have an eco temp propane portable unit I’ve been using at our hunting property for about 5 yrs. So far it’s held up well.


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[Choogsbro]

I believe 100Acre has one of those. He may have some insight.

 

[Smitty335]

I have an eco temp propane portable unit I’ve been using at our hunting property for about 5 yrs. So far it’s held up well.


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You ever flush it with white vinegar, Need too.

 

[Deleted member 3748]

So @JTW, why the sudden interest in showers?


Must have been at least 5 years since you've had one isn't it?

I was reading the comments just to see if someone had already mentioned it.

Then I replied to the wrong comment. I meant to reply to the golden shower.

 

[JTW]

I have an eco temp propane portable unit I’ve been using at our hunting property for about 5 yrs. So far it’s held up well.


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Good to know...

 

[Smitty335]

Sooo, I got the shower in today.. unfortunately my bilge pump won’t work with it. I ordered a high pressure pump to try with it. That’s what was suggested by amazon. I’ll give it a try and see how it does. The downfall is it has to have juice to work the pump and the igniter on the shower is operated by 2 D cell batteries. Now, with my limited experience with this thing and just toying with the settings a little. I notice as I’m playing with settings that if I were buying for a trailer I’d want it to be about twice as fast heating water. And I’d prefer it to handle more flow as I found full pressure from the spigot and the shower flow setting on high.. the burner can’t quite keep up with the volume. I’ll give it a try though and if I don’t like it... back to amazon she will go. The concept is great though.

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At 1.32 GPM that's is a little more than a lavatory faucet puts out, not bad for portable unit, unless you are hairy! HA! You could go full blown big boy tankless, there are some out door models that will put out 5 GPM, only issue with these would be fuel capacity of your propane tanks. And some have an igniter that is powered by a turbine in the water supply.

 

[JTW]

At 1.32 GPM that's is a little more than a lavatory faucet puts out, not bad for portable unit, unless you are hairy! HA! You could go full blown big boy tankless, there are some out door models that will put out 5 GPM, only issue with these would be fuel capacity of your propane tanks. And some have an igniter that is powered by a turbine in the water supply.

Like a small black bear... or the Love child of Chewbacca and a Sasquatch!

 

[Smitty335]

Like a small black bear... or the Love child of Chewbacca and a Sasquatch!

That's why I included the comment, HA! How bad do you shed?