Ok, here’s my quick review of the Joolca shower, based on a single testing in the garden.
I bought the “Outing Kit” as I wanted the pump. The photo below shows what you get.
The heater bit has a couple of legs, which come off with a single thumbscrew each side.
On the left is the orange push fit gas pipe. It comes with a regulator and standard fitment for larger gas bottles. I have bought an adaptor to allow it to fit to the Camping Gaz 907 canister we use in the van.
In the middle is the hot water supply. Another bayonet fit to the underside of the heater for the first hose. This then goes to a mechanical valve shower switch which can hang inside your shower tent (it comes with a sleeve for this), and then a shorter hose which goes to the shower head. This arrangement of pipes looks like it will work well.
On the right is the cold water supply. One hose links the pump outlet to the heater, and the other links the inlet on the pump to your cold water supply through the filter. I dropped the filter into standard water container.
The pump comes with a long electric cable, terminated in a cigarette lighter connector.
To make it work, you put 2 “D” type batteries (supplied) into the underside of the heater. These power the display and the igniter. Open the gas supply, and turn the pump on. Nothing really happens until you open the shower switch, at which point the heater senses the water flow and ignites the gas and off you go.
It all worked instantly and quickly. You control the heat and the water flow with the knobs on the heater unit. Switch the shower switch off, and the thing just stops.
The number of hoses etc is a bit overwhelming, but the photo below shows that you can fit everything apart from the pump in a 9 litre Really Useful Box, and if I tried really hard, I could probably get that in too.
We bought this as an insurance policy in case we can’t get to a campsite with showers in our planned European travels. My wife was suitably impressed and could see herself using it in an emergency.
Hope this is useful.
Pete
I bought the “Outing Kit” as I wanted the pump. The photo below shows what you get.
The heater bit has a couple of legs, which come off with a single thumbscrew each side.
On the left is the orange push fit gas pipe. It comes with a regulator and standard fitment for larger gas bottles. I have bought an adaptor to allow it to fit to the Camping Gaz 907 canister we use in the van.
In the middle is the hot water supply. Another bayonet fit to the underside of the heater for the first hose. This then goes to a mechanical valve shower switch which can hang inside your shower tent (it comes with a sleeve for this), and then a shorter hose which goes to the shower head. This arrangement of pipes looks like it will work well.
On the right is the cold water supply. One hose links the pump outlet to the heater, and the other links the inlet on the pump to your cold water supply through the filter. I dropped the filter into standard water container.
The pump comes with a long electric cable, terminated in a cigarette lighter connector.
To make it work, you put 2 “D” type batteries (supplied) into the underside of the heater. These power the display and the igniter. Open the gas supply, and turn the pump on. Nothing really happens until you open the shower switch, at which point the heater senses the water flow and ignites the gas and off you go.
It all worked instantly and quickly. You control the heat and the water flow with the knobs on the heater unit. Switch the shower switch off, and the thing just stops.
The number of hoses etc is a bit overwhelming, but the photo below shows that you can fit everything apart from the pump in a 9 litre Really Useful Box, and if I tried really hard, I could probably get that in too.
We bought this as an insurance policy in case we can’t get to a campsite with showers in our planned European travels. My wife was suitably impressed and could see herself using it in an emergency.
Hope this is useful.
Pete
