Hot water options

[MenwithVen]

Planning on. Having an external bullfinch shower point in my conversion that probably won’t be used regularly. No internal shower.

Original plan was a Truma diesel combi heater, but at what £1900? This seems an expensive extra. If it was just me I’d have a cold shower no probs but the wife and kids won’t appreciate that hah.

Just looking at other options for the hot water side of things. A 10L tank with an immersion heater would be an option but that’s a lot of battery power to heat, and as I’m going gasless I need to be careful (going for induction hob etc which is already power hungry).

Are there any other sensible options I could look at?

 

[TonyL]

How about using something like this:

AUTOTERM Flow 5kW 5D/5B Previously BINAR 5S (Diesel water heater) (12 or 24 volts: 12 volt)

Diesel heaters for boats - Lorries - Campervans - 4x4 - Welfare Vehicles - Military Vehicles

planarheaters.co.uk

 

[MenwithVen]

How about using something like this:

AUTOTERM Flow 5kW 5D/5B Previously BINAR 5S (Diesel water heater) (12 or 24 volts: 12 volt)

Diesel heaters for boats - Lorries - Campervans - 4x4 - Welfare Vehicles - Military Vehicles

planarheaters.co.uk

Is this a calorifier? I take it the engine needs to be run to heat water so might not be ideal. Nevertheless I’ll take a look into it.

Thanks!

 

[TonyL]

No, it is a diesel water heater. The Sven Hedin uses an Ebersparcher diesel water heater to provide heat and hot water. It has a diverter valve like in a central heating system to send hot water to radiators or a calorifier.

You can build you own system using a heater like this, common on canal barges etc.

 

[Raul a/3]

another option is Bobil water heater, in conjunction with a diesel air heater. It can be integrated even with the Chinese heaters.