Shower Hose Extension - Additional Strain on Water Pump

[Spud7017]

Gidday, I have a hybrid camper and on the passenger side it has the external shower.  We have recently returned from a couple of weeks touring and one of the things we have learnt is the length of the shower hose limits were you can have a shower eg, on some occasions it would have been far more helpful to have been able to have a shower at the back of the van instead of the side where the external shower is fitted.

Can I simply put a hose snap connection on the end of the shower hose that would allow me to put a longer hose on the end if required so we could run the shower at the back of the van or would that place to much load on the water pump ?

TIA.  Spud

[edz]

We just used roughly 5m of clear 10mm PVC tube [  from the big green shed ]  for our shower hose from the heat exchanger unit mounted on the truck, for our last shower set up .. from memory the pump is a 12.5 lpm  one and had decent shower preasures etc ..
You could use Nitto airline fittings as quick connectors .

[Gunsrunner]

Yes, I have used our fill hose 15m to extend shower to a run off area, with an 11lpm pump.
 Just remember that the longer the hose the more water wasted as cold.

[callmejoe]

Just add from my own experience. If using joiners I now just use yr simple standard tap connections.
2 reason.
1. I have used the quick stainless connection only to have them end up rusting  around the ball bearings. The also became very hard to open and close once any grit/dirt gets in.
2. By using every day tap connections if 1. Accidently  gets broken or a simple design change is needed parts can be  pretty much brought cheaply from anyway these day's, and don't rust.

Joe.