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Originally Posted by chasejj
What about a cheap Bosch 2.5 gal 120vac https://www.homedepot.com/p/Bosch-2-...2-5/206428467?
Well insulated, you can run it the night before a trip on shore power topping off the batteries and while driving to maintain the hot water up to 160F.
Reports are they keep the stored water pretty hot while parked for a day or so and won't pull too much power when you need to use it. Anybody run one currently?
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We have that one on our back deck for washing dogs...it works fine. For van use you'll either need at least a 1500W inverter since it's 1440W @ 115VAC or perhaps it uses a std water heater element, in which case you could fit a 200W-300W-600W 12VDC element. I've never pulled it apart to check it out since I used one of these in my van...
https://www.homedepot.com/p/Rheem-Pe...14U0/204318371
..which does use a std water heater element. I started with using a 300W element but have since switched to a 200W element. As 1der mentioned above it works good in certain use cases, but I also just use a solar shower when conditions allow to preserve battery when boondocking for days.
It's also worth mentioning that if you need to pull 1500 Watts from an inverter you'll need enough battery capacity to provide the current (around 125 amps @ 12V)....likely at least 350ah of lead acid/AGM chemistry. I've got about 350AH of house batteries and they sag the voltage down to around 12V when running my 700W microwave. It pulls about 1000W from the batteries.
Here are some details of this project:
https://www.sportsmobileforum.com/fo...r-13704-2.html