Guess the next time I go camping I should drag my pressure washer along.
Continuous flow of 200F (+/-) degree water at 4.5 gpm for 90 minutes between
fueling. Takes about 90 seconds to heat up. You could sell hot water to your
neighbors, if you had any. Also has a 2K generator.

In all seriousness, they're making these things smaller and smaller these
days- I was looking at one yesterday that was right around two cubic feet,
I'd say. Lesser flow, etc. but still enough to work with (probably didn't
have the genny- I didn't look for it). Somebody that pulled a small trailer,
or camped a lot or for extended periods could probably justify it.
Alternatively, some enterprising soul could use the components from
something like that to cobble together a custom application.

Is it the owner of the 'Westfakia' that has a 'kitchen trailer'? I could see
it fitting right in to that kind of setup.

Cya,
Robert

----- Original Message -----
From: "Al and Sue Brase" <albeeee@MCHSI.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Saturday, October 16, 2004 11:05 AM
Subject: Re: camper heating

> Maybe, but I think you need 30,000 btu/ hour at least to heat water for
> a shower intantaneously. Don't think you're goin to get that much from
> heat exchanger on exhaust.
> Al Brase
>
> tmiller wrote:
>
>> Maybe you can hang a heat exchanger at the exhaust outlet and let the
>> engine idle while you shower?  Run a hose from the faucet to the heat
>> exchanger for an on board water supply.
>>
>>>
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