I put up with the stock shower head that came with my RV for awhile but swapped it for an Oxygenics model after reading about these units on numerous RV boondocking sites and decided to try one. It super easy to change it too. No tools were needed, the fittings were finger tight.
This the 1st one that I bought for our 2nd motor home, Starflyte, it had water savings and seemed to have enhanced the felt water pressure.
This the 2nd Oxygenics unit that I bought for our 3rd motor home, Cheyenne , it has water savings and seems to have enhanced the felt water pressure. The bonus is that it advertised 1.75 gallons used per minutes. Th above unit claimed 2.0 GPM. (For comparison: A regular non-saving shower head will use about 3.8 gallons of water per minute.) And this one has 5 spray settings vs. only 1 on the 1st one that I bought for Starflyte.
This little shut-off valve to the left was the best $6 that I have spent on RV accessories.
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The factory shower head and these two aftermarket units all have shut-off valves but they are actually painful to use.
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Shut-Off Valves are very necessary feature to have. You must conserve water when you are boondocking or without water hook-up, so you will have to shut off the water and master the Navy Shower. These valves don’t stop the water flow completely but only slow the flow to an almost small trickle. The idea is, you don’t have to shut off the hot and cold valves, then turn them on again and waste water trying to get the temperature just right again.
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The Problem With Shut-off Valves In RV Shower Heads
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An RV shower head with a Shut-off valve should stop the flow right? It does not completely stop the flow. It only slows it down to a COLD trickle. Why is that? It has something to do with preventing hot water scalding due the way RV plumbing systems are designed. n