CAMPLUX ENJOY OUTDOOR LIFE BD158 1.58GPM Propane Tankless Water Heater - Enjoy Hot Water Anywhere Outdoors!

Jordan: Received my heater a few weeks ago and have been using it for an outdoor shower. It's amazing! I connected it to my water through regular hoses and the pressure is great, the same as a normal shower.

The only comment I have so far is that the shower head extension that came with this system didn't seem water tight. I had connected it at first for "proof of concept" and it leaked a ton. Luckily I already had my own shower head setup which is water tight, otherwise I would have been out of luck.

United States on Aug 18, 2023

JC: Simple setup, easy operation and I'm happy with this purchase. Produces plenty of hot water for an outside shower.

United States on Aug 08, 2023

John Murray: Need to simplify a few things otherwise a pretty good unit.

Canada on Aug 08, 2023

Handy Guy: I got this to replace a unit from another company purchased last year with a one-month warranty. It worked fine last year, and again when I pulled it out of winter storage this year... but only once, then it completely quit. This one has a one-year warranty, so maybe it's better. It looks like it was made in the same factory with many of the same parts, and it mounted with exactly the same screw holes as the old one, so I'm only semi-optimistic about its longevity. At least for now it's working, and I must give it credit for producing hotter water than the old unit. That one was highly variable in the amount of heat it put out, and sometimes couldn't quite reach the temperature I like for a shower. This Camplux unit easily hits the temperature I like (115 degrees F, according to its display), and will go much hotter. The only fault I can identify so far is the sensitivity of the settings. The smallest change in the control dials will result in a big change in temperature. On the plus side, it is very repeatable from shower to shower, so doesn't require a lot of fiddling once you get it set the way you like it.
This unit comes with some adapters to convert its British pipe...

United States on Jun 28, 2023

Francesco: This heater was easy to install. At first in July 2022, the unit would automatically turn on and ignite the burner, and it worked great for the remaining of the 2022 Season (about 10 uses in total, all for a 5-minute shower).

Now: it's June 2023, so less than a year of use, while the unit had been properly drained and winterized back in October 2022, and the bloody thing will no longer start. The electronic display comes up for less than half-a-second, then will go dark and will not turn on again. Unreliable, most probably the electronics could not stand the winter season storage... Very disappointed, as this unit is somewhat expensive, at almost 400$. While awaiting a reply from the Camplux support Team, I am contemplating the option of gutting all the electronics and interlocks out of the unit and make it "handomatic" with toggle switches. I am NOT going to let my money go to waste.

UPDATE: AFTER WRITING TO THE AFTERSALES DEPRATMENT, IT NOW SEEMS THAT CAMPLUX WILL SEND ME A NEW REPLACEMENT UNIT. THEY WERE ALSO VERY WILLING TO PROVIDE ME WITH A FULL REFUND. SO YES, IT'S DISAPPOINTING TO SEE THIS WATER HEATER FAILING WITHIN THE FIRST YEAR OF USE, BUT AT LEAST THIS...

Canada on Jun 21, 2023

Josh Lalonde: Heater is great
Set up is easy and customer service
From camplux is superb

Canada on Jun 05, 2023

Forest: Je l utilise a mon erabliere pour le nettoyage des équipements, branché sur une pompe shurflow 5 gpm, j alimente une laveuse a pression . Seul petit hic, le bruleur ne s allume pas toujours, il faut tourner légèrement le bouton du débit pour qu il s allume.

Canada on May 17, 2023

Amazon CustomerAmazon Customer: The CAMPLUX 1.58GPM exceeded our expectations! It was pretty easy to install. Just make sure you tighten the hoses on. I was very concerned about the 1.58 GPM, and wasnt sure how hard the flow/pressure would be. It is Amazing!!

We installed this near our Swim Spa, and now the kids dont have to use the cold hose water to rinse off or shower off after a swim. We usually have it about 100-104.

I have a 25 foot expendable hose, which might be smaller inside that normal hose, so maybe that helps with the water pressure. Also we have had 4 kids rinse off for about 2 -3 minutes each, its really continuous hot water!

also i wasnt sure if the pilot light would run / burn propane 24/7. Its doesnt. It kicks on once it senses water pressure by pressing the Open on the hand held shower head.

It take about 10-12 seconds to go from cold to about 100' so really fast to get a HOT Shower!

Its so portable, i imagine just bringing this with an extra propane tank camping and being able to shower anywhere i can get water.

I am going to build a nicer shower area for this. But just wanted to say we have had this about a month, and no worries!

United States on Oct 27, 2022

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UPDATE: Stopped working completely. RETURNED.
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The overall design is pretty good for what the water heater is designed to do, the feature set is nice, the build quality appears to be reasonable, and delivery was quick. That's the good. Now the bad:

- Starting the water heater is very unreliable, and does not usually start the first try. It is supposed to be automatic - if there is gas pressure and the water starts flowing, the flame is supposed to ignite and the water heats up. I leave the unit hooked up to water and gas, but in an unpressured state - gas and water hoses are empty, with no pressure. With the hand shower valve closed, I open the propane tank valve, and the quick turn water supply value. When I open the hand shower valve, the water flows and unit should spark a few times to ignite the flame. Usually it does not. It might do it after closing and reopening the hand shower valve. I turn the gas and water supply off, purge the water pressure by opening and closing the hand shower valve, then retry the startup sequence all over again. It sometimes takes 3-4 cycles before...

Canada on May 30, 2022

John Wrigley: We have a family cabin with gravity fed water, no electricity, and we carry in propane in 5 gallon cylinders. Before buying the Camplux 2.64 GPM water heater, I looked at many reviews concerning how many GPM the Camplux on demand water heater would deliver with our 15 PSI delivery pressure. I went to customer support before being and asking if they had a specification chart for GPM versus PSI. They could not produce such a thing and wrote back stating, "place a bucket of know quantity under your fixture, and with a stop watch, measure the time it takes to fill the bucket." Not helpful. So, to readers, it took 1 minute to fill my bucket to the 1.5 gallon mark. As pressure varies +/- 1 PSI and clogs happen in varying shades of grey at our cabin, your results may be different than mine. This is place to start on what to expect with flow versus water pressure for the Camplux 2.64.

There are other oddities with this unit as well which I will discuss. There are two dials on the front of the unit. One for water flow and one for gas flow. With a low pressure system like ours, we found ourselves resetting the gas flow value often. There are two different fixtures at this cabin: a...

United States on Aug 05, 2021