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This RV water heater uses an automatic direct-spark gas pilot and an internal electric heating element to get hot water ready fast. Recovers up to 12 gallons of water per hour. Unit is small and lightweight for an easy fit in your RV's cabinet.
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Hi everyone. Steven here with etrailer.com. Today we're looking at our Dometic RV water heater. It's a gas electric combo with an autopilot. Runs on 120 volts, rated at 10,000 BTU and six gallon capacity with a white conversion finish kit. So folks, this water tank again comes with this white conversion kit.
You got the side expansion panels if you need 'em to fill up the gap. If you want it in black, we carry the same unit with a black conversion kit instead of white. That item is sold separately. As you can see, you've got the 110 plug. You've also got the power wires here rather, for hooking up the rest of the unit.
I'm gonna go ahead and remove this cover here and set it to the side. Now along with that cover, you're gonna get a couple sets. These guys here are gonna be reinforcements for the corners. We'll just kind of twist and break them off one for each corner. Same thing with these guys.
These are kind of broken apart already. These are gonna be your spring-loaded latches that marry up with the slots in the door to keep it closed, along with hinges that get installed, that way it can fold down from the front down. Now, this is a quick recovery water heater. It's gonna provide a long lasting supply of hot water with just a small lightweight tank. This whole thing weighs about 18 pounds, not too heavy, and it's a very, very well built unit.
Let's go ahead and spin around, do some dimensions real quick. So from the cutout here to the back where the pipes connect, you got 19 and 7/8 inches deep. The cutout here that's square is 12 and 3/4 tall by 12 and 3/4 wide. Now this does include, again, that conversion kit will fit up to a 16 and 1/2 inch wide cutout, especially for those legacy water heaters that have that bigger cutout. So again, 10,000 BTU, six gallons on the tank. That being said, it can produce up to 12 gallons of hot water per hour. Now it has an automatic DSI gas pilot inside of there that's gonna heat the water once your destination is reached and you're hooked up, and it's gonna relay automatically until the heater's switched off. The flue tube in there and everything is a U-shape, so it's gonna distribute heat more efficiently, and more distribution to the burner or from the burner, rather, out to the water in the tank and heat it up. It has an 80% efficiency on the heating, the sufficiency rating, so that's very impressive. The electric heat element will assist the flute tube to heat the water even faster than just a gas one. It uses what's called in-pulley construction, that's gonna prevent burnouts. Now, with this, you would need a double panel switch sold separately, and that switch would mount to your wall and allow you to power the electric and gas components on and off individually as needed. Now, this mounts into the coach for easy operation. It's an aluminum-clad tank. It's gonna reduce calcium buildup and limit corrosion. Now again, you got your plug and your wires here. Your gas line's gonna come right through this rubber grommet here. It's kind of hard to see. And it's gonna come out back into where this red cap is and hook up there on that 3/8 inch outer diameter gas connection. On the bottom, there's no anode rod because you don't need one. You've got that aluminum-clad tank. That white nylon cap there, that is your drain plug. It's gonna prevent rust because it's not metal, so it's a lot easier. And with this design, if you're used to an older version, it's down there at the bottom. So now your water can just come out naturally, safer. It's not getting all your components wet and everything up here. You do have your pressure relief valve up there. That's very nice. They designed this to have an air pocket in the tank, so that's gonna prevent and help keep that valve from dripping inside of your cabinet. Again, something you may have experienced with other models or older brands and those kind of things. This is externally sealed. It's gonna keep everything clean. It's an open unit, meaning, hey, I can hook this up and test it before I install it. I recommend that. Just make sure everything's working great before you put your blocking and seal everything up and put your wall trim on, go ahead and test everything. It is CSA certified. Again, it runs on gas or electric, 120 volts, or 110 outlet, whichever. Now, this again is a externally sealed. don't have to worry about that. One last thing to mention before we go folks, this has a combustion shutter adjustment that does it on the fly, meaning if I go into high altitudes, it's gonna adjust that oxygen level for the pilot light to keep it doing what it needs to do, even whenever the air changes and everything. So, very nice little feature that I wanna point out there. Well, folks, that's gonna wrap it up for our quick look together. Again, this is the white conversion, we carry in black as well. the Dometic RV water heater, gas or electric. I'm Steven. Thanks for watching.
Customer Satisfaction Score:
98% were satisfied with this product
2% of customers were not satisfied
Ratings & Reviews
Easy installation, works great.
We have Hot Water ! We live in our RV full time so we needed a Hot Water Heater of good quality. Time will tell if this Dometic Hot Water Heater is as good as the old Atwood which it replaced. The packaging was good ! Hot Water Heater appears to be well made. No problems installing the directions were clear and it fired right up. This replacement Hot Water Heater is smaller than our original so we purchased the enlarged door kit which fit perfectly. Great communication with etrailer which helped us find the correct Water Heater for our application. There website information was accurate and we had no problem contacting a human voice when needed.. We are Happy Campers !
Part delivered as promised
Easy installation! Works great!
Needed a water heater and this was the best one to fit, after reading the directions front to back it took only a couple hours total to get it in my RV. Water heated up immediately and everything has run great, of course it's only been a few days but so far so good, my only issue is that there is a back order on the door cover.. so it's totally exposed to any elements and I have put temporarily back on the door that came with the RV ( even though it doesn't fit) it's just so it's not totally a open hole to the outside, hoping it is available sooner than later.
Installation was easy, I did have to raise cabinet drawer up about 1 inch to allow clearance at the back for the water connections. It is quieter than my older (2000) Dometic and hot water recovery is a little faster.
My water heater leaked and It was the old style that is no longer available. This one needed some conversion but it fit. I even made a pan to go under it in case it leaked again.
I used two 1/2” supply lines to make the connections because they were in different locations. Worked like a champ!
Had to use the door conversion which fit perfect.
This water heater was meant to replace an older Dometic model which was heavier and had a larger opening. We appreciate the new style and feel it works well. We had to buy a door conversion kit. E-Trailer was wonderful in getting it shipped in a prompt fashion. We have just a few recommendations for Dometic for this model. 1. Please provide a silver colored door conversion kit for Airstreamers. We ended up painting it with a high heat silver spray paint. Just added unnecessary steps to the install. 2. Please provide self-tapping screws for the actual unit to be put back in place. Our older model had 10 screws and we used them all, and then some. So, we ended up halfway thru the install only to find out we were missing 10 screws. None of the holes in the new frame lined up with the old model. Also, a bit annoying. It would be great to include electrical connectors to snap the wires together and include a low profile outlet to plug the new model into. We were able to cobble things together from Home Depot, Lowes, Menards...but it would be even better if these items were offered or suggested by e-Trailer during the purchase. And we can add Butyl tape to that list. 3. We also wish the door conversion kit was a bit more seamless. We screwed in the corner supports on the water heater, only to find out we needed to take them back out and use the door kit corners. Again, the product is better but the devil is in the details. Glad this project is done.
Thanks great item every thing worked out
Easy install, great directions and reliable equipment. Extra shout out to etrailer.com for helping me get it much faster since what I ordered at first wasn't immediately available.
Water heater showed up on time, it was the the right application due to Atwood being bought out by Dometic, fit perfect with conversion door.
It appears just fine. I have not yet installed it, but based on other reviews im sure it will be fine.
It's been one year since we replaced the water heater in my 2006 Jayco Feather and there are no complaints. The new water heater is working great and etrailer was a huge help when I purchased it. If you're replacing a water heater, I would read the Question and Answer section on here for the model you are going to buy. And also pay close attention and figure out if your current water heater door will work with the new water heater. They may vent in different places.
The purchasing and shipping process for etrailer was amazing. I made this purchase over a weekend to have it arrive on a Wednesday as the website indicated. There was a problem processing a payment and I was contacted several times by Andy to ensure the problem was rectified and the heater was shipped in a timely fashion. My water heater arrived a day earlier than they estimated on top of the processing issues and once it was delivered, I received an email confirmation which also included a link to documents related to the installation process
I only had two minor issues with the heater, but they do not negatively affect etrailer.com. It arrived with mounting options for the front door on the top corners instead of with the center tab as indicated in the pictures and also how my previous heater was setup. I thought it was going to be an issue as I didn’t purchase a new door, but I just moved one mount to the center position.
Second, this water heater did not come with any mounting screws. I’m sure that’s Dometic’s choice and I was able to reuse my old hardware. So just a heads up for anyone in the future.
Overall, thank you etrailer.com, everything worked out great!
The install process was easy and it’s working better than my old heater ever did.
i had to replace my Atwood Water Heater again thanks to the extremely HIGH calcium content in the water where i was living in Northern California. This NEW water heater was a simple install. Everything fit perfectly and i had it going in about 2 hours. NO complaints what so ever. it works Great.
Water heater was delivered yesterday. I just installed it for a customer this morning. Everything went smoothly. Tested the water heater before finishing sealing up the outside flange with butyl and screws. Heater was working great on both propane and electric. No leaks the customer was very happy to have it working again.
Kelly at eTrailer is great! We run a small but very busy RV repair business and love all our friends at eTrailer. The parts come quick and are fantastic quality!
Exactly what I ordered and it was plug and play. Delivered in 3 days which was a plus. Thank you
Propane works great! The electric side not as hot water easy install, yeah right. Takes knowledge to install, which I have , the rerouted propane line was a challenge, under carriage to redo line and flare fittings , also a better description of wiring of gas and electric low voltage, I went with colors to match but didn’t want to damage unit
As always with ETrailer, we received great assistance and accurate information. The water heater took a couple of hours to install as a couple of adjustments needed to be made to get it into the space. We are up and running again thanks to ETrailer and Andy!
Very easy to install
Arrived a day early... GREAT!!! MFG packaging brought the rating to a 4. The mounting flange was bent on 3 of the 4 sides, due to no additional packing inside the mgr box. The flange was easily bent back into shape.
Install was straight forward, per mfg instructions.
I'm giving this 4 stars, because The water heater and door kit work to replace my leaky Atwood water heater. By comparison, this beats the Atwood by a large margin. The drain cap is very easy to get to, for winterizing.
Now, I held back the 5th star only because I've had to redo the plumbing. I know, that would have been asking too much, but I also would have gone with 5 stars, if the color of the door matched my RV. *wink*
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Gwendolyn Y.
5/20/2026
I'm always one who loves to customize things so I totally agree that more color options should be available for the doors.