- Ben for Snowys here, folks.
Today I'm talking about this portable self powered tap
from Dometic.
- [Narrator] Hit it.
- Portable self-powered water tap
is USB rechargeable means you don't need to worry
about 12 vault wiring
and you can take it just about anywhere.
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Now let's jump into the product.
So included in the box, you get the water tap
and we'll go into all the details on that in a second.
But first, so you get your USB recharging cable.
This is a micro USB to USB-A,
show you where that plugs in shortly.
You get little silicon hose,
which is part of the setup.
And once again, show you more on that shortly.
You'll also get just a little storage bag
so you can keep it nice and safe
or stored away securely in the car.
Instruction manuals.
And you also get these little panels here.
Now there's two sticky pads here
and they correlate with both of these items here.
So you can actually stick these metal plates
down somewhere in your car or on your table.
And these work with a magnetic base here
so that actually sticks on there.
And it's got a magnetic base.
So if you secure that somewhere,
wherever you're gonna put your tap all the time,
it's a nice secure place to put it.
There is a couple of little screw holes in there too
so you could put a small screw I suppose,
if you wanna to attach it permanently.
But the sticky pads are gonna work best.
So moving on to the tap itself, it weighs 300 grammes,
a nice lightweight little unit.
And measures 17 centimetres from the base here
up to this highest point here,
15.4 centimetres from this point here out
to the nozzle at the at the back here
and 6.8 centimetres
in width, this way.
Having a bit of a look around the unit,
starting at the back,
this is the nozzle where we attach the hose.
So we'll attach that right now.
This just pushes on nice and easily
and I'll show you a bit more
on where we can attach the other end of this shortly.
Above that,
a rubber cover that's covering the USB charge point up here.
So they don't say how long it takes to charge
but is an integrated battery inside here.
Charges by USB, one charge gives you 150 litres
of water flow through here.
I charged this for probably about half hour
to an hour from nearly flat I think.
And it seemed to go charged right up
so it shouldn't take too long to charge it up.
Nice to see on the sides,
if you have a look on the top here,
this is the button that turns it on and off
just a touch button.
So we press that on and off.
Little indicator light here that tells us when it's on.
And the instruction menu also shows you
what the the flashing modes mean on that.
When it's charging,
it flashes while it's charging,
then turns off when it's charged up.
Having a look underneath here, nothing under there
but you do have that magnet inside here that will work
with the metal panels there.
And then underneath here,
you've got the outlet from the spout.
So this is actually just a little plastic,
it's not actually chrome, it's just a plastic outlet there
and then a light underneath there.
So when you do turn it on, that light comes on.
So if you're using it at night,
you can see where your water is pouring.
It does have an IPX4 rating, which means it's protected
from water splashes from any direction.
So if you're standing out a little bit of rain,
it's gonna be fine.
Now it's part of the Dometic GO series
and it's designed to be compatible
with a separately available product
which is this water jug here.
So you could essentially just put this hose
in any vessel of water
and this is gonna draw water up out of the vessel.
We'll show you how that goes shortly.
And out of the tap.
The hose does have this little clip on here
so if you need to keep things neat and tidy,
you can sort of clip that up there
to just keep it out the way, if you wanted.
But it does have this quick connect attachment
on here which will attach to this water jug here.
Now this is another Dometic hydration water jug
another Dometic GO product.
That just clips into there.
There's another video on this product
if you wanna know the details about it
but there's a hose inside there that goes down
to the bottom of the product.
Now I'll spin this around just in front of us here
cause they are designed
as such that they can kind of be used together.
So if I put this on here
I'll show you how you can use this with the water jug.
If you were to stick that on there.
You've then got your water tap on top of the water jug
attached in here
and you've got a portable water tap
or water hydration system that you could take
for picnics or whatever around the campsite if you like.
So you can cart that around.
Don't have to use it with this
but it's ideally compatible
with this jug here for a really good system.
So I'm gonna leave this attached
to the jug here at the moment.
I've got the breather open there.
So we're ready to start drawing water outta this.
Now it's got an automatic cutout feature
so Dometic claims it will cut out after running
for a minute or after dispensing a litre of water.
So I guess we can assume
that it's gotta flow rate of about a litre a minute.
I've got a a cup here to give you an idea or rough idea
on how long it's gonna take to fill up your glass.
Put that underneath.
Imagine you've got to camp, you've got this set up
you've got your little magnetic plate set up
maybe in the back of your car or on your table in camp.
Just pop that wherever you mount it,
connect that to your water jug
and you've got water on tap straight away.
Now the button on top is a sealed button.
There's no bits where water or dust can get into.
Double tap, turns it on. Single tap, turns it off.
Now this hose isn't primed at the moment
it's got a couple little bits of water in there,
but it's largely empty.
I'll turn this on from an unprimed hose
to give you an idea how long it takes
to fill the cup up here.
So double tap on top there.
Turns under light, goes on underneath here
and it starts filling up.
So that will run for a minute if we like.
So if your kids leave it running
it's just gonna run for a minute.
That cup would obviously overflow
but you're not gonna drain all the water out
from underneath, from your jug.
Single tap, turns it off again, light goes back off
and we've got a glass full of water there.
You might, I guess, have a question around
does it work on an angle?
Does it have to be flat?
I haven't actually tried that.
I'm just gonna put this water back in there
and I'll see what happens,
if I turn this on and use it on an angle.
So that's working sideways.
So if your car is parked on an angle
then obviously that's still gonna work just fine
And once you've finished with it at camp
and you wanna pack it away.
Just detach the hose here,
turn it on to just drain the last bit of water out there.
(faucet pumping)
Now you can run the pump dry for a bit.
Don't run it for ages dry,
it's gonna cut out up for a minute anyway,
but that's drained the hose out there.
So we can now wrap this up,
put it back in its storage bag
and we've got a really easy to set up water tap
for the back of your car.
If you use it in conjunction with the water jug here
and attach or stick one of these on top of there.
You've got a portable tap that you can take for picnics,
birthday parties or whatever you like.
It's probably best just to keep using it with water
cause you can't disassemble this to clean it out.
So just use fresh water when you're flushing it through.
So if you don't wanna worry about the hassle of setting up
say a 12 volt pump and a tap
in the back of your four wheel drive
or you really need something that you can pull away
from the car.
This USB rechargeable tap
from Dometic is the perfect way to go.
There's no setting up.
It's plug and play pretty much,
apart from charging it from either in your car
or any USB port.
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