gas or electric?

[monkey_trousers]

ahoy there, probably the first time I've been able to start a post, every time I have a question I come in and find it already asked and answered! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

so here goes, gas or electric what!

about to buy a big wooden hole in the water to throw all my money, actually its not that bad, its a pretty solid, well looked after and regularly surveyed ex MFV. Was used as a dive charter till a couple of years ago, so the accommodation is fairly rudimentary, for me (us) its going to be used of the west coast of scotland for as much of the year as I can get away with - just cruising and schmoozing

At present there's no shower onboard, so, gas or electric shower. there's an 240Vac 8kva genset, which should run a 'leccy shower, but what might be the best option standard electric shower powered from the genset, or a good old gas water heater??

any help/advice mucho appreciated

 

[roly_voya]

Gas will make a hevy dent in the bottle and you will need large size bottles to avoid freezing the cylinder under heavy demand so If you dont have, or want to upgrade to, 56lb + cylinders leccy might be the way to go. If you do decide on gas can you get a multi-point boiler to do the whole boat rather than just the shower? Gas power showers definatly give a better shower than any electric I have seen (and 7Kw is medium sized) but you need sufficent water pressure and tankage to run it - no sense in a brill shower if you run out of water in 10min or the pump looses pressure because it can keep up with the flow

 

[Talbot]

neither - diesel using a eberspacher water heater. - you could then run a heating system from it as well.

 

[douglas_family]

we have a trumatic gas boiler provides heating and hot water runs fine from camping gaz bottles and is good

 

[monkey_trousers]

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neither - diesel using a eberspacher water heater. - you could then run a heating system from it as well.

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ahhh... there's the one thing I didn't think of. Will be wanting some heating too so that might makes sense. got a 300 gallon fuel tank to play with as well. plus I guess a lot less safety implications with no gas.

 

[damo]

Can you arrange a separate small tank for a diesel heater? Then you can use road diesel and reduce the likelihood of heater problems.

 

[vyv_cox]

I assume you will be doing plenty of motoring? Why not install a calorifier? Hot water supplied as a by-product of your motoring and modern ones come with an 800 Watt immersion heater, which your generator will supply in the event of no motoring and if mains available.