FOGATTIRV Tankless Water Heater, InstaShower 8 Plus, Gen 2, with 15 x 15 inches Black Door and Remote Controller, DC 12V, Best High Altitude Performance, Ideal for RVers' Everyday Use

Using for an off-grid cabin. Follow other reviews' instructions on installing pressure relief valve. Took me a while to figure out all the parts I needed to make it work for a cabin rather than an RV. Lots of trips back and forth from the hardware store, but alas, it works and water is HOT!!! Wife and I use it for showers and washing dishes. Hooks up to a standard grill tank.NOTE: Use a 100 psi pressure relief valve. NOT the standard 150 PSI valve you commonly find at Lowes or Home Depot. Fogatti sells the right one on Amazon.12/2022 UPDATE: So, most of the US just went through the deep freeze. During this time, water inside the heater froze causing a part to rupture and water was spraying like crazy inside the unit. I called Fogatti and spoke to an actual person on US soil without a foreign accent. I'd add an extra star for this if i could. I explained the issue and texted them an image of the part that broke and they immediately shipped me out a replacement part! If I were to knock off a start for the part breaking, I'd have to add ot back just because of the customer service. So I still remain at 5 stars for this product. It's actually 6 stars because I spoke to an actual American.1/2023 UPDATE: Shipping was slow. Very slow. But the part was very easy to replace. While i was waiting for the part to come in, it still made hot water even though it was leaking. Do I still give it a 5 star? Almost. I'd say a 4.9 star.4/2023 Update:Not sure if I can recommend this anymore. A few days ago the water heater stopped turning on. I connected a multimeter to the 12V batter and am ready 12V. Tested the wires that go from the battery to the unit' still getting 12V. Tested the wires coming from the unit, going into the remote - 0V. Spoke with customer service and they were very pleasant to work with. Again, it was personnright here in the US and not some foreign call center that you can't understand. So anyways, I spoke with the support tech and he asked me to check a few more things and he determined it may be the board that has gone bad. They're shipping me a new one, and while I do appreciate the good customer service, this thing isn't even a year old and it already needs new parts. I do have a 5 year warranty, so I'll he able to get parts for the next 5 years, but after that, if this thing still keeps breaking, I'm going to have to look for a different unit. If Fogatti's units were as superb as their customer service, this would be a 5/5 stars all day. Dropping to a 3 star. It would be a 1 star as far as reliability, but their customer service is so good it brings them up to a 3. If I get these new parts and I don't have any problems anymore, it'll go back to 5 stars if it stays problem free.6/2023 Update:Git the parts, installed and it wasnt working still. Spoke with Fogatti again. We used the multimeter to see the voltage going into the unit: 11.67V. Apparently this was way to low and it won't turn on. My led lights turned on, but not my water heater. I rewired a few things and got it plugged into my solar power station, sure enough, it's turned on with hot water. It wasn't them after all. I need to calll the technician again so I can confirm he was right. 5 stars again. What a rollercoaster lol2/2024 UPDATESince I rewired the water heater to plug directly into the AC solar inverter, I have not had any issues with the unit turning on. Now, if you're using hot water, and suddenly it goes cold and the little black control box starts beeping, turn off the faucet/shower, wait a few seconds, and turn it back on. If it still keeps happening, turn off the faucet/shower, and turn the hot water 3/4 of the way, let it get hot, then turn on all the way. Not sure why I need to do that, but it seems to work.11/2024 Update: Still no problems since the last update. Wiring this thing to be able to plug directly into a standard wall outlet was the ticket. Significantly less issues with water suddenly going cold. Still happens though, but the trick I used in my previous update still works. Heading into winter now so we'll see if the pipe freezes and explodes again.3/2025 Update: Coming out of winter. Pipes did not freeze. FYI, this unit can supply 3 fixtures with a bit of decreased performance. Built an addition to our cabin, will need to upgrade to a larger unit or get a second unit.

This is the 2nd camper I’ve converted from 6gal to tankless. Can’t beat endless hot water. This one being the 2nd obviously went a little quicker, but it’s maybe a 1/2 day project. Newer camper has flexible gas line, so super simple. Other camper had copper that had to be flared. If you don’t have a PEX tool, could use Shark Bite fittings, but if it were me I’d just invest in a one hand ratcheting PEX tool. My daughter takes long showers(~45mins) and I take quick showers (<10min). If you’re at the beach in the summer, no worries. If you’re in the mountains late fall/early spring, problem solved!

Life saver! My husband installed this after our hot water heater went out on our camper. My husband was able to completely remove the old heater and install one by himself in under 3 hours. We have great water pressure. The water is hot in about 10 seconds and maintains its heat throughout the length of a shower. We have found that when we’re using hot water, we don’t use the cold handle at all. You can adjust everything with just the hot water handle. This seems well built and has now made it through a few camping trips. We are happy with it and glad we decided to replace it ourselves as opposed to going through warranty. This was here within just a few days of placing our order! My husband used minimal bad words, so I’m guessing replacement wasn’t too tricky!

Overall, this was fairly easy to install to replace the 6 gallon electric/gas unit on my 2006 Outback Kargaroo toyhauler. Just for context, I’ve worked on my own furnace and trouble shoot and fix everything in my trailer - so some experience is definitely a huge plus since this project involves electrical, plumbing and disconnecting/reconnecting gas lines.The only big con I have so far is that it’s silly to have to buy the door separately. Now I have a useless smaller door assembly that I have to figure out what to do with, because I needed a bigger size door.A few things to note based on my personal experience:1. I have an existing 3 gang switch on the wall for the previous water pump, gas water heater and electric water heater options. The GAS switch is 12v. Electric is 120/shore power. This unit ONLY uses 12v. When we connected everything back together we had to use the (I think if I remember correctly) orange and green wires NOT the black and white. The black and white (on my old unit anyway) go to the 120/shore power and it blew the fuse on the unit immediately. So definitely double check that. Luckily this unit comes with an extra fuse, so no real set back there.2. There will be a slight delay in the temperature change at the faucets. Be prepared for around 30 seconds to get to the hotter temps when you turn on faucets. It’s around 90 degrees in the summer where I live (just installed so can’t talk about cold temps yet) and even then the water takes that long to get to the set temperature. I really don’t care because then I can shower or do dishes as long as I want instead of trying to catch every possible drop of hot water. I use a heated hose in the winter so I expect things will be about the same. So just know this isn’t going to be an “on demand” kind of thing.3. While insanely expensive, we opted to go for the pex connectors (shark bite? Idk) because they are brass and the connection to the back of the unit is also brass. We were having horrible luck with the water pump thread getting cross threaded when we moved it and went to reconnect and just decided that metal to metal would make things go smoother for the remainder of the project.If we hadn’t had to make 4 trips to the hardware store and fighting with the plumbing side of things (not the units fault in any way) this probably would have only taken my dad and I around 2 hours to do in total. My trailer has the water heater under a futon, so I was able to work inside and my dad outside which definitely made for an easy process. I’m sure if it’s in the under storage area it will add to the time and difficulty.

Took about 4 hrs working by myself to remove my old 6 gal tank water heater and totally install this tankless heater. It heats the water up a lot faster than I thought it would. Hot water now that’ll run directly off the solar system on my travel trailer. Amazing, I live in western North Carolina after the hurricane my wife’s biggest concern was hot water, no more. That’s fixed now.