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GlueGuy
Senior Member Joined: 15 May 2017 Location: N. California Online Status: Offline Posts: 2653 |
Topic: Hot water heater question Posted: 26 Apr 2020 at 10:01am |
Potato, potahto. We all know you are talking about spuds.
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bp
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offgrid
Senior Member Joined: 23 Jul 2018 Online Status: Offline Posts: 5290 |
Posted: 26 Apr 2020 at 11:44am |
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crankster78
Senior Member Joined: 08 May 2018 Location: Minn Online Status: Offline Posts: 163 |
Posted: 27 Apr 2020 at 10:44am |
Greetings: I leave the water heater bypassed,(don't fill it) and just use a kettle to heat the water I need on the stove. I travel by myself, usually stay in parks. I take a shower at park showers, Otherwise, I take a sponge bath using less than a gallon. The water in the kettle heats up faster than the water heater, and uses less water. Just my way. Crankster78 (soon to be 80)
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Pod People
Senior Member Joined: 22 Sep 2011 Location: Chapel Hill,NC Online Status: Offline Posts: 1078 |
Posted: 28 Apr 2020 at 8:02am |
We do the same as Crankster-use an electric water kettle when on shore power and propane stove when boondocking to heat our water. It's easy once you get used to it. the water heater wastes a lot of water getting from the heater to the kitchen sink or shower and fills the grey tank unnecessarily. Everyone has their own systems-do whatever works best for you Vann
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StephenH
podders Helping podders - pHp Joined: 29 Nov 2015 Location: Wake Forest, NC Online Status: Offline Posts: 6326 |
Posted: 28 Apr 2020 at 8:59am |
Ideally, I would like to put in a recirculating system to pre-heat the water in the pipes without wasting it or flushing it down the drain. The water heater is best used when one is at a campground/RV park with full hookups so that the shot of cold water does not fill the gray water tank, but instead goes direct to the sewage system. I think that will be a project I will tackle soon given that we won't be going anywhere in the near future.
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StephenH
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offgrid
Senior Member Joined: 23 Jul 2018 Online Status: Offline Posts: 5290 |
Posted: 28 Apr 2020 at 9:03am |
I agree there is water waste using the water heater, first in waiting till you get warm water, then in fiddling with the temperature. I added an adjustable thermostat that keeps the hot water at just the right temp for our showers. We turn on the water heater once a day, wait half an hour or so, start washing dishes with the cool water in the lines, finish and rinse with hot water. Then take our “navy” showers and shut off the heater. Or you can run water into a pitcher and pour it back into the fresh tank later. Another way to solve the same boondocking problem, either will work.
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lostagain
Senior Member Joined: 06 Sep 2016 Location: Quaker Hill, CT Online Status: Offline Posts: 2595 |
Posted: 28 Apr 2020 at 10:54am |
We save the water out of the tap while waiting for the hot water heater () water to arrive at the faucet and use it for washing or rinsing stuff. It's never been an issue that would justify a more complicated intervention for us. The shower head on/off valve is designed to drizzle a bit and that keeps enough water tricking out to avoid needing to adjust the h/c mix if you don't dilly dally while soaping up. For each of us, a shower with over a minute of water flowing would move into the Hollywood shower category.
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mjlrpod
Senior Member Joined: 27 Sep 2016 Location: Massachusetts Online Status: Offline Posts: 1215 |
Posted: 28 Apr 2020 at 12:05pm |
I stopped doing dishes in the camper a few years ago, and my grey tank is very manageable. Pretty much the only water that goes into the grey tank is from the "navy" showers, which we use as little water as possible. I use a water jug on the end of the picnic table, and a 5 gallon bucket catch basin. I wipe everything with a wet nap type wipe to degrease , then wash it under the water jug, and done. On longer stays, it might require a couple empties into the campground sink. It works for me
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offgrid
Senior Member Joined: 23 Jul 2018 Online Status: Offline Posts: 5290 |
Posted: 28 Apr 2020 at 3:17pm |
Feel free to drizzle all the hot water you want that your poor |
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lostagain
Senior Member Joined: 06 Sep 2016 Location: Quaker Hill, CT Online Status: Offline Posts: 2595 |
Posted: 28 Apr 2020 at 5:20pm |
It works. It's simple and it doesn't break. The amount of trickle of water is less than a cup while quickly soaping up. We're in and out really fast.
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Never leave footprints behind.
Fred & Maria Kearney Sonoma 167RB Our Pod 172 2019 Ford F-150 4x4 2.7 EcoBoost |
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