Dometic RV Water Heater with Door Kit - Gas - Auto Pilot - 10K Btu - 6 Gallon - Black Conversion Kit

Video Transcript for Review of Dometic RV Water Heater - Standard Water Heater Gas Black - DMC43RR

Hi, everyone. Steve here with etrailer.com. Today, we're looking at the Dometic RV Water Heater. This is a gas with an autopilot light running on 12 volts, rated at 10,000 Btus, and it's got a six-gallon capacity tank with a nice black conversion kit for the exterior. Now folks, like I mentioned, this has the black conversion kit, so that includes that front panel door, a couple of these expansion sides. So if you needed to fill in the gap on the sides, you would use these.

I'm gonna go ahead and remove that door. Now that door's gonna be held in place with a couple of other components that are gonna come with it. You're gonna get four of these corner brackets or corners. So those would break off individually and they would fill in the gap or make that corner stronger. You're gonna get some hinges.

You're gonna get all the screws to put this hardware on. You're gonna get some more of those corners to reinforce everything. And also, it's gonna have those two spring-loaded door latch that go through the slots on that front panel. So this is a quick recovery water heater. It's gonna provide long lasting supply of hot water, which is a small lightweight tank.

It's an aluminum tank, so you don't have to worry about corrosion buildup inside and that kind of stuff. As you can see, it's running on just some 12-volt connections because this is a gas powered. Some quick dimensions real quick to make sure it fits your space. 19 7/8 inches deep from the back of the pipes all the way up here to the cutout. The cutout itself is 12 3/4 inches tall, 12 3/4 inches wide.

Again, six-gallon capacity tank. You got your hot and cold on the back. Those plastic covers peel off really easy. They're just on there for shipping. Now from the back, this is where your gas line is gonna come through right here through this rubber grommet, and it's gonna connect up here in the front where they have this red safety cap covering that 3/8-inch outer diameter gas line hookup. On the bottom here, you can kind of see it, but that is your drain plug. It's a nylon drain plug, so that's an upgrade. It's not gonna come rust in place. And I like that compared to the other ones because now if you have to drain it, all the water's going down at the bottom and out versus some other models have 'em up higher and you can get water inside of all your stuff up here. You've got your pressure relief valve there and everything right there on top. Now I do personally question why it's pointing that way. Check the instructions and everything as well to see if you can get that twist at a different angle or whatnot, or to connect like a hose or something. That way in the event if it does have to use that pressure expansion valve, it's not spraying on everything, but I think the way it is, if it hit the side of this, it would just go straight down to the base. So I think you'd be okay anyways. Now this is CSA certified, again, 10,000 Btus. It can produce up to 12 gallons of hot water per hour and uses an automatic DSI, and that's a gas pilot that's gonna heat the water once your destination is reached. Now this will continually relight until you switch off the heater unit. Inside of this whole tank and this unit has a U-shaped flue tube that's gonna distribute that heat more evenly from the burner out to the water itself. It uses an 80% heat efficiency rating. That's very impressive. And like I said, there's no anode rod because it's aluminum tank, you know, limits and prevents that calcium buildup rather. It's got a high-temperature limit switch inside that automatically shuts the unit off, and it has an air pocket built into the tank and that keeps the valve from dripping in your cabinet. So that pressure relief valve I was talking about, a lot of times, some of the other ones would drip. You shouldn't have to worry about that with this unit because of the air pocket in there. This also features a combustion shutter adjustment. So in that, or rather when you go to high altitudes, that combustion shutter will adjust on the fly, the oxygen level. That way, the pilot light can do its thing in different altitudes. Now this is externally sealed, so it's very nice. It's gonna keep everything clean. And this is what we call an open unit system. So you could potentially, and I recommend you do, hook this up to all the wires, the gas, and kind of test it before you put it in the case. So make sure everything's functioning properly before you do your install. Read the instructions for the installation. You should be good. You're gonna need some blocking to go underneath the tank, you know, just to keep it level if you need to and support it and that kind of stuff. But again, read the instructions. You should be good. Lightweight, it's about 18 pounds empty, not too bad at all. And it uses 1,400 watts and again, 10,000 Btus capacity. And if you are looking for the white conversion kit, we sell that separately. So again, this one today I'm featuring has the black door and the garnishes and everything. If you want the white color for the finished look, you can get that separately. It's a whole another part number. Well, that's gonna wrap it up for our look today, folks. I'm Steven. Thanks for watching.