1000W Electric Immersion Heater, Bucket Water Heater with 304 Stainless-Steel Guard, Submersible Bucket Heater with Thermostat and Auto Shutoff, Heats 5 Gallons Water in Minutes

I have a 20 foot motorhome that has a shower; however, to use the hot water I need to run my gas generator. To circumvent this, I have an Ecoflow delta that powers all of my electronics, and I can use it to heat my shower water. I purchased the 1000 watt version of this unit and it heated 3 gallons of water in 15 minutes while it was 60 degrees in my RV. It starts off at 1012 watts but it drops down at times to around 575 watts. Prior to this, I was using an electric hot plate where I heated the same amount water and it took 60 minutes. The verdict is, it does the job but certainly in a longer timeframe than expected. Considering the price and my previous alternatives, I recommend this unit.

30 min in home depot bucket to hot to put my feet in.wow Only used 1 time but wow great job.

Tested this out with a PID-controller, and I gotta say I'm impressed! It'll keep water heated up to a consistent temperature over the course of several testing temperature intervals. At about 195 (the safety tripping point,) it did stop heating the water for a while. But once I let it cool it was right back at it again. Overall I have yet to see how long this will last me, but I'm hoping it'll last a long time. Great heater!

This does what I want...warm up water for jacuzzi (in a bucket) bathtub. I have a small water heater and it takes forever to fill with hot water. This is a nice alternative until we can get a bigger water heater. However, it takes approximately 10 minutes for every gallon to heat to boiling. All these other claims like 20 minutes for 5 gallons seems way off to me. This is the only reason I removed a star.

I bought this to heat up 3 gal or 5 gal bucket of water to take a shower, while camping. It does use a lot of wattage, but for a relatively short period of time. I hooked up to the Ecoflow power station that I have or to the 2000W pure sine wave inverter that I have hooked up to the alternator (to recharge the Ecoflow more quickly). Of course if you were at a campground with power outlets, you could just plug it in there. But it seems to work great and can heat a 5 gal bucket of water in 10 min or so. Of course I could boil water instead, but is quick and easy. Just drop it in the water and it heats it up and to very hot if you want. I just get it warm enough for a shower and unplug it, so i don't use up extra power. But I can recommend this item, from my experience using it.

I had read that you could heat a small swimming pool or as some say paddle pool with this heater, it even showed the pool I was trying to heat in the advertising. Ok, so my grandkids were not fond of playing as swimming in this size pool with 4 kids is impossible in cold water. One thing I had read was to use black garbage bags on the surface of the water 💦 when the sun was shining. I tried that, and it did warm it up some, but only on the surface. Once the water was stirred up it was cold 🥶 again. So back online for more suggestions I went. This heater was rated well for heating up a pool so I tried it, it wasn’t really expensive. We got 2 saw horses and a stick and laid it across the middle of the pool. It did start to heat it put kept shutting off. We think 🤔 it wasn’t meant to be used with an extension cord. I then tried it in a bucket 🪣 and plugged it into an outdoor outlet and it did heat up the water in the 5 gallon bucket, but not in minutes. So what to do. I suppose maybe next year I could use the black garbage bags and the heater with multiple buckets and see if that doesn’t ruin my back as I am 61 years old grandma, trying to make summer fun for the grandkids. Or maybe 🤔 they will have to toughen up and swim in the cold water like I did when I had swimmingly lessons at our town pond in central Wisconsin at the end of May right after the ice melted. We would come out of the water blue, but I got as far as Junior Life Saving and I could save someone that was drowning if I had to. I think it would work if maybe I invest in a better extension cord or put the pool on my deck that is the same size as the pool because that’s where the outlet is or maybe just take them to the lake or local swimming pool when this pandemic is done, when ever that will be. Happy 😃 paddling.

Absolutely perfect in my Promaster van conversion project. Dropped it in a 5 ga hedpak water container with a perfect height fit (had to remove the heat guard to get it through the mouth). Ran it on a 2000 watt inverter and heated 2.5 ga to a perfect washing temp in 12 minutes. With the engine (alternator) running, my aux Chin 100ah lithium battery lost no voltage - still 100% fully charged after the test (this battery supports fast charging). I can heat as much water in the hedpak as I want while on the road to my next destination and still have a charged aux battery when I shut down for the day. Touching the heater element in a bucket test confirmed it will not burn my plastic supply line or the bottom of the hedpak. Running without the alternator help, it used the expected 1% of battery charge per minute of heating.

I purchased this Dec 11, 2021 to go inside my 46-gal Basalt water fountain over winter. Worked great and even had the water steaming some mornings in sunlight (looked amazing) and generally kept the water temp around 80°. I'm writing this review Jan 28, 2022 and the heating coil seemed to have burned through completely. The past couple days I realized the water temp was bordering 32° and figured something was wrong. Pulled it out and you can refer to the photos attached. Not sure what I could have done differently as it only sat in one spot to ensure the water didn't freeze and it worked perfectly. Luckily it malfunctioned such a small window I can return for a full refund. I won't get bent out of shape, but I did hope that it would have lasted at least the entirety of 1 winter in Salt Lake. Temp control worked amazingly, the price was great for the purpose it served. My only issue is that I wish it lasted longer. If you buy this you may get lucky and have it last for years on end, I just wasn't in the lucky bunch!