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Clean, Green Dual 12V/120V Duoetto Gen 3 Water Heater

January 7, 2025

The beautiful Icefields Parkway in Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada, which is a magnet for RV owners and campers at whom the clean/green Duoetto Gen 3 is targeted

Canada RV trade launch of clean, green dual 12V/120V Duoetto Gen 3 water heater

An Australian RV manufacturing innovator and worldwide water heater manufacturer is launching to the RV and camping trade in Canada his latest ruggedly built 12V/120V Gen 3 Duoetto for those who like their adventuring to be clean, green, and safe.

“We see strong potential in the Canadian market, where the Recreational Vehicle Dealers Association (RVDA) says approximately 2.1 million (or 14% of) Canadian households own an RV,” says product designer Jay King of Aus J Hot Water Solutions.

Aus J has engineered the 10-litre (2.65 US gallon) Duoetto Gen 3 for the extremes of the Canadian and broader North American climate for 12V DC/120V AC use in the RV, caravan, camping, and marine, yacht, and powered boat markets. Gen 3 is approved to UL 174, with Intertek ETL product testing and certification.

The 12V/120V water heater – which has been marketed at a retail level in Canada until now – is also used where work vehicles, trucks and 4WDs operate in remote places in which crews want to maintain optimum comfort and personal and workplace cleanliness in isolated locations.

“It offers strong margins to distributors, of about $C300 per unit (about $US220) per unit where purchased on a 500-unit container basis, with rates from us to distributors’ OEM customers of about $C455 ($330).”

Jay says that notwithstanding the relatively shorter RV season in Canada – typically mid-May to mid-October – adventure and sport trips are big business over the course of a year. The RVDA presentation shows that RV owners took an estimated 6.3 million RV trips in Canada in 2022. Further to this, Canadians who rented RVs took an estimated 1.3 million trips in Canada bringing the total to 7.7 million RV trips.

Aus J water heaters are used in many boating applications. — Victoria Harbour

Duoetto water heaters are also easily integrated into yachts and pleasure power boats, as well as fishing and work boats

“With RV owners reporting that over three-quarters (77%) of their RV trips are to a campground, RVing and camping are clearly very much linked together. This presents an ideal opportunity for the Duoetto Gen 3, which can use site power when this is available, then provide plenty of water for showering, cleaning and hygiene when people go off-grid in the famous Canadian wild open spaces.

“Not only is pollution-free electric power better to preserve the pristine nature of Canada’s open spaces, but also it is much simpler and cost-efficient to install Duoettos to cut out the expense, fossil fuel odor, environmental, and potential fire and safety hazards of fossil fuel alternative water heating systems.

The all-electric 12V/120V capability means also that OEM and DIY RV and boat constructors need only one power source in their vehicles or on power or sail vessels, using existing battery storage rather than having the expense of an entirely separate fossil fuel feed,” says Jay King, who manufactures both gas and electric water heaters but sees electric as the future as environmental and safety standards increase.

“A single source of energy is brilliant for the OEM and RV conversion trade, which is highly competitive and keeps one eye firmly on future trends in both RV and general automotive manufacturing, which is switching to clean, green power under the impact of climate change.”

Jay has already proven his ideas by selling tens of thousands of his earlier 12V/240V and other portable water heaters globally. He says the new Duoetto Gen 3 12V/120V 60Hz answers calls by his North American customers in particular for a 120V version of the original proven 12V/240V Duoetto design.

Many such customers – including leading RV manufacturers and fitout specialists – already use the original product solely for its outstanding 12V functionality, which facilitates showering, cooking, cleaning, and pet care far off the beaten track or on the water.

Universal mounting brackets mean the Duoetto Gen 3 can be floor or wall mounted. Digital control (shown above) governs AC/DC on-off functions and full temperature range selection

“We know that the clean functionality of electricity is appreciated, both by long-time recreational travelers concerned about their environmental footprint, and particularly by the new post-Covid generation of young family RV enthusiasts and single woman adventurers who took up adventure travel during international lockdowns and now form a new generation of RV and marine adventurers.

“Many of this new generation – and long-time adventure travel enthusiasts too – also like to take their pets with them on their travels. But they also need hot water to keep them clean, because they don’t want to share close quarters with a naughty smelly dog that has just rolled in the mud – or worse!”

“RV dealers tell us there is a whole new and permanent generation of recreational adventurers that has grown up during the Covid years who are greatly attuned to the worldwide global move gaining momentum from fossil fuel to electric cars, trucks, 4WDs and less environmentally impactful travel.”

“After all, why would travellers pollute the pristine environment they are travelling hundreds of kilometres across the vast expanses of Canada to enjoy?” says Jay King, whose company also manufacturers ranges of shower points and accessories to extend the comfort and water economy of his own and other-brand water heating products.

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