So i'm looking at options for adding a shower to my troll. My girlfriend and I are camping at least 2 nights, up to 7 nights out a month.
It doesn't really matter for 2 nights, but much longer and you start to get a bit on the nose - especially in summer. Also nice to be able to wash the salt water off if you go swimming.
From my research, it looks like there are two options, engine heat or LPG. I have a dual fuel stove and a dual fuel lantern i run off Shellite - full tanks on both before we go lasts the week out easily, and my drawers have room for an extra 2 litres "just in case". Therefore, I'm more partial to the engine heat option as I'd prefer not to have to make room for a gas tank somewhere. The engine mounted ones are also nice as they dont take up any space inside the car/roof rack.
I did a fair bit of searching on the forums but could only come up with options from 3 years ago.
As far as hot water heaters I see:
Helton (Helton heat exchangers - camp hot water systems and camping showers)
Hot water unit for $339
or it's colder sibling the Hot shower system for $279.
Their shower roses are the $30 ones from ebay which look a little bit "poor". Plus, i'm 1.85m tall, and thats further than they say they'll lift water.
Twine (Products)
With flojet that only has 1m lift,
or with Shurflow with a 4m lift ability.
And finally Piranha Power Shower Kit (Piranha Power Shower)
which has a SHURflow pump that's higher pressure, 1.8m lift and higher flow than the one Twine is using. I believe this was about $550 at the 4wd show recently.
For gas power,
Coleman's is about $450-500 with shower kit Products - Gas stoves, lanterns, showers, accessories Page 48 - no flow rate or lift ability listed.
Aquacube @ $269.99 (very low flow rate, rather large) also at kangaroo tent city link above. No lift ability lifted.
Primus also seem to have a unit very similar to Coleman.
Does anyone know of any other options?
I'm leaning towards the Piranha kit as they are a brand name/available at a 4wd shop/readily supported and i talked to one of the guys from Piranha at the 4wd show. I prefer Helton's mounting options though with all the connectors at one end.
The final option is to get a water heater coil from Twine or Helton and get my own hoses/mounting brackets/decent pump and do my own thing.
It doesn't really matter for 2 nights, but much longer and you start to get a bit on the nose - especially in summer. Also nice to be able to wash the salt water off if you go swimming.
From my research, it looks like there are two options, engine heat or LPG. I have a dual fuel stove and a dual fuel lantern i run off Shellite - full tanks on both before we go lasts the week out easily, and my drawers have room for an extra 2 litres "just in case". Therefore, I'm more partial to the engine heat option as I'd prefer not to have to make room for a gas tank somewhere. The engine mounted ones are also nice as they dont take up any space inside the car/roof rack.
I did a fair bit of searching on the forums but could only come up with options from 3 years ago.
As far as hot water heaters I see:
Helton (Helton heat exchangers - camp hot water systems and camping showers)
Hot water unit for $339
or it's colder sibling the Hot shower system for $279.
Their shower roses are the $30 ones from ebay which look a little bit "poor". Plus, i'm 1.85m tall, and thats further than they say they'll lift water.
Twine (Products)
With flojet that only has 1m lift,
or with Shurflow with a 4m lift ability.
And finally Piranha Power Shower Kit (Piranha Power Shower)
which has a SHURflow pump that's higher pressure, 1.8m lift and higher flow than the one Twine is using. I believe this was about $550 at the 4wd show recently.
For gas power,
Coleman's is about $450-500 with shower kit Products - Gas stoves, lanterns, showers, accessories Page 48 - no flow rate or lift ability listed.
Aquacube @ $269.99 (very low flow rate, rather large) also at kangaroo tent city link above. No lift ability lifted.
Primus also seem to have a unit very similar to Coleman.
Does anyone know of any other options?
I'm leaning towards the Piranha kit as they are a brand name/available at a 4wd shop/readily supported and i talked to one of the guys from Piranha at the 4wd show. I prefer Helton's mounting options though with all the connectors at one end.
The final option is to get a water heater coil from Twine or Helton and get my own hoses/mounting brackets/decent pump and do my own thing.