On Jul 25, 2008, at 12:25 PM, pickle vanagon wrote:

Anybody here used one of the water heaters that uses an heat
exchanger on
the stovetop?

-Wes

I've got a hot water heat exchange sold in the US cruiser outfitters.

<http://www.cruiseroutfitters.com/helton_specs.html>

It's hooked in-line with the facet on my Advenutrewagen and it works
OK.  To really get the most of it I need to add a second tank for the
water cycle through. I find if I run the water to fast it gets cold
due to the small size of the exchange.

Other then that it's really quite low tech but works well.

<http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2219/2259433486_0db1f17d92.jpg>

<http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2379/2258637817_9abc27dd45.jpg>

JFF