Caravan hot water heater.

[Pedro_The_Swift]

Yep the old Golf has one,

After much coercion (from she who will remain nameless) I lit the heater.
and then sat and had a think.
It obviously heats a tank?
The tank is again obviously pumped into either the shower or external shower----- and is refilled as required by??? water from the water tanks? by the one water pump?


at this stage I turned the gas off, shut the hatch and opened a beer.

[justinc]

GOLD!

There are quite a few designs out the Pete, Ours is a Suburban brand, gas and electric 20 litre storage tank one, there is instant on gas, instant on 240V etc too.

JC

[goingbush]

this might help, relevant page from my caravan handbook.
most vans would use this system

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2013/08/226.jpg
in this case the "Suburbain" 22.6 litre storage tank is part of the hot water heater itself, as it is in most caravans.

[Pedro_The_Swift]

yea,, thats pretty much how I thought,,

just not certain that the pump is in any way attached to the tank! :D or how it pressures the hot water to travel to the shower head:confused:
am really not keen on heating up an "empty" tank.

[Yorkie]

We have a truma in our new van, just read the instructions and will need to read a few more times to understand.
It does say to switch on water pump and run the hot tap first which fills the boiler before starting it up. :)