Camco Hot Water Hybrid Heat Kit - Easily Converts Any 6-Gallon RV LP Gas Water Heater to 120V Electricity to Conserve Propane (11673)

Quick delivery, easy install!

Ok...for anyone still heating water in your RV with propane, GET THIS. I installed this in our travel trailer earlier this year & we've been on 3 camping trips so far. We have yet to use propane to heat our water. This does a great job heating the water & it's not as slow as some people may say. Yeah, the kit is not cheap, but neither is propane. This will pay for itself in very fast. I also installed an external 120v receptacle on the travel trailer so I can then plug the electric water heater directly into the power panel at the campground instead of one the outlets inside of the camper, that way I'm not adding an extra load to the main power to the camper. Overall this was an easy install, the only issue I had was a propane line that needed to be slightly adjusted to clear the heating element. Otherwise it went well & has been working wonderfully. I definitely recommend getting this for your RV.

This heater rod worked great. It was easy to install. It saved me hundreds of dollars.

For the price, this water heater efficiently does what it advertises it will do: heat your water without using propane. The instructions are clear, step by step, and easy to follow, with simple wiring schematics to guide you on your way. The heater worked fine the first time when I tried it after the install, and heated the 6 gallon tank of water to a very hot temperature in about 1 1/2 hours. If you need faster hot water, just turn on your propane to use at the same time, and, once heated, the electric heater will keep the water hot enough to keep the propane from coming on unless you take a long shower. This device will definitely cut back your propane usage. Three complaints I have for this unit are (1) the on-off switch does not have a covered box to install it into to protect you from a 110v shock if you get your finger on one of the terminals, (2) several of the wires that should have been in the package were missing. so I had to solder in my own extra wiring to complete the install, and (3) the wiring cable from the thermostat to the on-off switch is about 18 inches too short, making it difficult to install the switch at eye-level without adding more wire to make the cable longer. Overall, though, I would recommend this heater for an alternative to propane. (Just don't touch those exposed 110v wires on the back of the switch.)

Very easy to install

Just received my Camco electric water heater retrofit kit and the switch, bracket, and screws are missing. Tried to call Camco but they are closed until Monday. Lets hope they can send the rest of the kit I purchased.Edit: Called Camco, lady was very helpful, I submitted all documentation requested, 6 days later I received an entire new kit (although missing the heating element, which I did not need), installed the switch, (which was missing from the original kit), all is good.Heats water on a reasonable amount of time, very happy with this kit.

Installed in/on an old '77 Unitrol/Robertshaw 6 gallon water heater that finally gave up the ghost (propane pilot light no longer stays on). Wish I'd known about this hack years ago! We live in our old small '77 Komfort trailer full time in an RV park/campground (life is hard for so many now, it's sad!)...electric is included and unmetered so this hack is a no-brainer! The element rod threaded directly into the drain plug without any of the adapters. To install/make room for the thermo I had to cut away/peel back some of the sheet metal tank enclosure, which was the hardest, most irritating part. Still haven't tidied it back up lol. The thermo adjustment is very sensitive, settled on 120°F setting- anything higher gets scalding hot! Seems like a decent 10 minute shower is easily doable, but we haven't yet tried that because we also have full facilities nearby on site. Works great for all the daily domestic hot water needs, dishes etc. Takes maybe an hour to fully reheat the tank if we run it til cold, but we rarely need to. It also is completely quiet, don't even know it's there. Once in a while I hear the thermo click off or on, that's it! Huge improvement over the finicky, unreliable, dangerous, complicated, annoyingly loud roar of the propane setup! Tell ya what...you don't realize how much of a luxury on demand hot water is until you have to do dishes and wash your face with 36°F water in the winter lol! brrr! 😰Now I hardly need to drag one of our big heavy propane tanks down and back up the mountain by ebike trailer because we barely use propane! Just for the oven and emergency/power outage backup heat. I can *highly* recommend this setup...if you are living in a park/site full time with free/cheap power like we are, you need to do this hack!

If you're not mechanically inclined, don't try. It was pretty easy to install. The hardest part was just getting the 3M. Tape to Ade's to my tank. But I added 3M glue to it and it's all good This will definitely save you money if you're tired of running your gass all night to wake up to a warm shower I'm running this all day. Turn on the gas Only if it's really cold and back-to-back showers.

Easy install, saving me tons on propane. I should have done this years ago. So simple to install, have not had a issue. U can turn it up to wild hot. Obviously it’s electric element, takes time to heat from empty, but if u run it as well as propane u get great hot water. Would recommend.

I have a suburban sw6d in my trailer. I measured the depth of the tank from the drain plug and determined that the 10 gallon version of the Camco hybrid heat would fit. I wanted the higher wattage version to reduce heating times. Installation on my trailer was relatively straight forward since the hot water tank and a power outlet were nearby. The wires connections are colour coded and also easily done. I found the most difficult part was getting the wire from the heating probe through the heatshield and installation of the thermostat on the side of the water tank. Also note that the hybrid heat heating element came with a small piece of annode material attached to the mounting plug.On our first trip with the hybrid heat, I made sure to fill the hot water tank before turing on the heater. It took a good 25 - 30 minutes to get the hot water from the tank, obviously this will vary based on the original temperature of the campsite water. Since I adjusted the water temp of the thermostat relatively high, I left the propane heater off since it was not needed to maintain the temperature of the water. The only time we turn on the propane heater was for showers, as a result we used significantly less propane than usual.The drawbacks of the system is the difficulty in draining the tank at the end of the trip since drain plug is not easily removed due to the wires. If you know the plumbing system of the trailer, you can drain the tank through there instead, but it will be slower.In general, it will reduce the propane usage in some low to moderate hot water usage, however for high usage such as showers you will still need your propane heater for faster regeneration times.

It was easy to install and worked perfectly after installation. A couple things kept me from giving it a 5 star rating.1. the wires to switch where not as long as I would have liked, that limited where I could mount the switch.2. the double-sided tape that goes on the thermostat did not stick very well, I had to add some caulking to secure it.

Installation was a little complicated with the wiring in my case as I wanted to have the plug outside so I can run an extension cord from the heater to the pedestal's 15A so it wouldn't affect the RV's 30A capacity. If there is no separate 15A, I can run the extension under the RV to the exterior plug and be mindful of the power it draws. Since this is a modification on my part, I'm not penalizing the product but it would be nice if they had this possible option to wire it. I may mount a permanent plug in the hot water tank door.It works great. Will save a lot on propane by using the park's power instead and can have it on all the time, which is especially important these days with having to wash our hands so much. It's not as fast as the propane but if you do need to reheat the water faster, you can still use the propane.Note: Other reviewers here said that the 10 gal. version fits in the 6 gal. tank. In my case with the Atwood 6 gal., it DOES NOT fit. The longer 10 gal. element hits the back of the tank and sticks out about 1.5 inches. It still works but it's not ideal. Hopefully the element rod won't burn out because of the exposed portion but if it does, I'll replace it with the proper shorter 6 gal. version.

The propane water heater in our older trailer stopped working. After changing the thermocouple with no success, we decided to convert to an electric heater using this product. We could not be happier with our decision. The instructions were easy to follow, everything was included in the kit, and it works well. I really appreciate that the kit comes with an on/off switch which other kits do not include. The water is hotter now that when we used propane. We've confirmed that it drWs approximately 3 amps power while in use. There are many installation videos available online to watch which are good to view before you begin your own installation. It took us 45 minutes to do the installation. The only problem we had was getting the thermostat to stay in place on the water tank. We used more tape to help with that.