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RV Water Heater For Your Road Trip
By Rodger G Allenby
You’ve got to be pretty space conscious when traveling in an
RV (recreational vehicle), and energy conscious too, for that
matter. Meaning that your RV water heater is just as important
to consider as how much cupboard space you’ll have in the little
kitchen.
Because whether you’re traveling with a tank of propane and therefore
have a gas water heater or have something you can plug into an
outlet at a campsite, your heater and tank size are going to be
related.
A Water Tank Wastes Energy
It’s hard to run a water heater for an RV on anything but gas.
Unless you’ve got some powerful solar panels on your roof, or
find a place with cheap electricity to plug into, you’re not likely
to heat water or the RV interior any other way.
But of course, having a water tank may create problems similar
to those with your residential water tank: it wastes energy and
gas when you aren’t using the water.
A Compact Tankless Water Heater May Be Ideal
If you need a large volume of warm water ready at certain times,
then you’ll need to review your options and look for a large
tank, which might create space problems. However, compact tankless
water heaters resolve these problems.
If you go tankless with your RV water heater, then you can reduce
the size of your holding tank. As long as you know you’ll be traveling
where you can hook up to water pipes, you don’t need to carry
a large volume around with you. Just hook up the pipes, turn on
the water, and the heater kicks into gear and warms the water
as it comes in.
The water heater itself will most likely be a gas heater, but
will only draw on your gas supply when it senses the movement
of water and turns on the heat.
Need For Space When Traveling And Living In A Vehicle
Using this type of RV water heater won’t entirely eliminate the
necessity for tank storage space, since you’ll always have that
propane gas tank and another for accumulated waste.
But you know every bit of extra space counts when you’re traveling
and living in a vehicle. Drawing your hot water tankless is one
of those small space-saving measures you can take to give yourself
another couple of cubic feet in which to put something else, and
you can save on wasted propane too.
About the Author:
Rodger G Allenby has written a number of articles on home improvement, gardening, landscaping,
fishing and fish finders including
Grass Seed,
Garden Supplies,
Backyard Ideas,
Green Lawn,
Backyard Landscaping Pictures,
Underground Pet Fence,
Backyard Fences,
GPS Fish Finder,
Humminbird Fish Finder,
Portable Fish Finder.
Keep a lookout for more of his articles on this website.
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