💧 Friday’s Finds: AndemanRV 55,000 BTU Tankless Water Heater | Instant Hot Water for RVs 🚐🔥

Good morning and welcome to Dude RV. Hey, I appreciate you stopping by. And of course, say it with me, you got here just in time. That's right, it's Friday and it's time for a special popup edition of Friday's Finds. Now, those popup editions are typically reserved for your higherend products or complex products. uh products that take a little more build time and we've got one of those. And and I've had a number of companies that have been that have reached out to me over the years wanting me to do a video on this, but they always want me to install it. And I'm not going to install an RV water heater. I have a perfectly I have a great Insta Heat system on the on the Magnitude. I can tell you it's a model TWWH-201, the RB water heater. Here's our specification panel. It's an IND demand. So, sent to us by In Demand. 12 volt DC 55,000 BTU. Uh gross weight is 14 kg. Let's get it out of the box and see what I have to do to be able to pro to use it because we're actually I'm going to actually put this to work right here on the bench or the the the table. My catch all. We live in the motor home. We're waiting on the the studio. Actually, the studio is going to be the over there and partially over there. Not here. So, let's get this box open and see what's in it. End them on in the man troubleshooting. Here's our control panel. Some connections. Here on the back, we're going to have cold in, hot out, gas in, and we're going to need power. 12vt power. Got to turn it. We'll be able to drain it. Pop off valve in case it gets too hot. Let me sort out all my connection stuff here and we'll get her hooked up and producing some hot water. I have the water heater working and I and I've had a thought. Let let me give you the overview and then we'll get into where I'm going to go next with this video because this this was there's not much to see here. All the internal parts are inside. We've got power and I'm powering it with a landscape lighting transformer. Puts out 12 volts, the right amperage. Got it connected to the water hose here. I have a propane line there and that actually came off of the older uh portable that froze. So, that one has a bad leak in it. So, I've taken some of the stuff off of it to set this up. All that's left is is to turn it on. We're currently turned on. We can turn it off. That'll if you're running on a battery, that's a good idea. And turn it on. Ah, there it is. So, it goes up to 114. It was Celsius. So, it goes up to 10. I don't know how high it goes. I had it 114. Probably going to have it normally about 102, but when I fill the Oh, I'm getting ahead of myself. Normally, when you're showering, you'll probably have it 102 to 104. 104 is a really hot shower. And now, all we do is turn on the water. [Music] that flickering is the frame rate on the camera, but it it jumped right up to 105°. I mean, it's an Insta Heat hot water heater and it's hot. That's pretty cool. And it's quiet. This one makes less noise than the one that we have in the motor home, which is a good thing. All right, so we're done. We're going to let that cool off. And here's what we're going to do next, cuz this video is too short for a popup stand along Friday's finds. So, that was where we were showering all last summer. I I made the mistake of not taking that down and it froze and there's there's something that's it leaks really bad. So, we're going to take that down. I'm tired of the swing being our privacy screen. The wind just keeps picking that thing up and blowing it around. So, I need to get that someplace better. And during the winter, it was cold. So, we put up the the Vivore shelter and that is weathered extremely well, but it is it's it's at the end of its lifespan. Uh the UV rays, especially over here, have degraded the the fabric to the point where it's it's about to colltorm and she's gone. And this is the the one that we've been using out here, which it works perfect if you're taking a quick shower. But if you're taking a long shower or you're trying to fill your hot tub, it's not very precise. So you have to mess with the flow rate and all of that. It's it's become problematic. So, we've put a lot of hours in use on of We've had a lot of hours of use on the hot tap. So, we're going to we're going to replace the hot tap and both of those. We're going to pack those away. That one's going to go away. That one's going to get stowed away. And I'm going to rework our shower setup here. Build a housing, a weatherproof housing for this. Now, the outside is weatherproof, but I really don't want water getting inside the cabinet. So, I'm going to build a a housing to go over that and keep the rain off of it. So, we'll rework that. We'll fabricate that. I got to go to work. Y'all got to keep in mind this is temporary. you know, we're we're like four at at the most 6 weeks out from moving into the house. So, this is strictly to get us to that point, but it it gets the job done. Control is out of the out of the direct rain. We're plumbed going through the actual uh water softener. We're good to go. I guess I guess I guess I should have turned the water on so that you could see it operating. Let me let me do that. Power on. Water going. One of these back here. Probably need to move that so that it were not right there. But that's just a couple screws. Yeah. Nice and hot already. I like it. I don't have a cover on. Oh, no. Need a cover of some kind. How about this dirty one? All right. I think I earned some brownie points. So, the the shower is the temp shower. Now, keep in mind this is just temporary for the next several weeks, but she's very happy with the the lattice screen. And the main reason that we we wanted that is because occasionally we get weekenders out here riding around on their side by sides and if you want to take a shower when the sun is up, you you got to pay attention to what the the noise is. When you hear them coming, you got to you got to run over here. The shower's done. It works. I'm very impressed with this water heater. Uh, it's much easier to control than what we were using. I'm actually able to fill my tub and do a and get a good soak every night. I got I got I I have nerve stuff and so I need to soak and I was having a hard time keeping a constant temperature when I'm filling that tub with the other setup. It took a lot of finesse. This one little bit of finesse. I found if you want to get above 104, 105, you got to slow the flow of water. Uh we have about 52 PSI coming from the city grid. We can take a shower. It gets up to about 104 105 degrees, no problem. And that's great for a shower. But when I'm filling a tub of water like that, I need it to get up to 110 112. Uh, and I found if I just back off. So, I have a I have a valve here. So, I can kind of close that down and it works much better. It It slows the flow enough that the water gets heated up. I have a high flow rate, 52 PSI, but I got a high flow rate because we have a 2 inch water line coming from the road. So, we have lots of water for taking a shower with the hot water heater, which is what this video is about. I like it. That's a great investment. And here shortly, we're going to get Yappy's doing the hair and we're going to she's going to talk to you about it. just give you her two cents worth. Be right back. We have the shower expert with us. You happy? Hey, tell me about this shower. Well, if you've got a shower outside, there's just not a lot of choices. But I will tell you, this is a game changer because you have plenty of space, hot water, and privacy. Yes. So when the neighbors drive by, you're all covered. Then a plus is we've got this water heater, Insta Heat. It does a great job. I'm not sure it's not better than the one in our motor home because it keeps it warm and doesn't go back and forth. This thing is doing a fabulous job. So a lot of that back and forth. There's there's a lot of misunderstanding about the insta heat and RVs and there there can be some challenges with the the cold surge when you pause your shower and that's going to happen with with any Insta Heat. But this one is way quieter. Yes. Than the one that we have. And it does seem to be more efficient as far as being able to heat the water faster and regulate the temperature better. And comparing that to what we were using. Oh, this is night and day. The other one we had to adjust 15 times. This one once it's set, you set it and forget it. And we even had the dogs get bathed yesterday. They loved it. They're clean, too. I wish we had have thought this through when we first started using an outside shower. And now, keep in mind this this this is temporary for us. We're about to have the building. We're about to have a house, but this thing is is so much easier to fill my tub of water than the other one, which required constant adjustments. I mean, we're blessed to have the other. That's fabulous, too. This just works a little bit better. That pretty well, that sums it up. All right. Thank you, Yappy. So, you heard it from the boss. She's very happy with that hot water heater. I'm not sure if which one she likes better, the hot water heater or the privacy screen. Regardless, she's extremely happy with her shower. And that brings us to the end of this pop-up edition of Friday's Finds. All of these products can be found on Amazon. And being the gracious host that I am, I will provide you with some links. 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