Car camper kitchen sink faucet comparison: Testing 4 different battery powered water dispensers

[Music] hey everyone this is a follow-up to my diy car camping kitchen setup video that i did recently so if you haven't seen that check that out and in that video i talked about how i use this usb battery-powered faucet and i just plug that into a three and a half gallon water brick and it works great uh super slick setup but couple things with this first of all it drips a bit so if the water brick is higher than the faucet and the brick is totally full it puts too much back pressure on the faucet and so it has a pretty decent little leak here you can see how quickly it drips now the other problem i ran into is well i broke it i just dropped it on the ground shortly after i recorded that video and bad things happened so the entire smoked dark part of this popped off and that's where the button is to turn it on and off and so i thought i'd be smart and silicone that back down but once i did well the buttons stopped working very well so i think i kind of broke it so since there was so much interest in that last video i figured hey let's just go ahead and buy some stuff so i went on amazon and i picked out three very different styles of these usb battery-powered faucets and so we can take a look at them today and test them out so the first one actually when i bought it online i thought was going to be really large and it turned out to be this tiny little thing uh but fortunately i was able to get this with a six dollar coupon so this whole thing only cost me ten dollars uh shipped so it's kind of crazy and so you can see what it looks like it is very very small so compared to the one in my original video this thing is about half the height and the thing i like about it though it's got this really big clicky button on top so and it also feels really light so i could drop it and maybe feel like it's not going to fall apart like the first one um this comes with this really short piece of silicon tubing and you can see it alright has kinks and our second competitor here is this guy uh this is kind of the old school style so when i was researching these maybe a year or two ago they all kind of look like this so i figured let's pick one of those up uh the packaging has no english on it uh and this is the amazon listing it was 16 and this one has a different kind of design from all the others wherein it is basically a cylinder and in that cylinder is the the pump and the battery and then there's this little metal piece that sticks into the side and that's the spigot and so you know it came pretty well wrapped the construction is this kind of shinier plastic and at the top there is a clicky button it's not nearly as clicky as our first short one but it does work and also in the box you get some kinked cheap tubing which you should not use so that is our second faucet and then our third and final faucet actually costs one dollar less so this one comes in at fifteen dollars and uh comes pretty well packaged it's in a much bigger box than the other two and you know it's wrapped up decently and overall this is made of higher quality plastics than the second one there's a slightly better fit and finish on this item here you know i don't love the design but it's at least fairly well executed and the really funky thing with this one is the user interface because it has four buttons so there is a power button at the top that works like the toggle button on all the others so you can press it once to turn it on press it again to turn it off but it also has these three preset buttons so it'll dispense a certain amount of liquid automatically and shut itself off and this also comes with some really low quality silicon tubing that also came kinked out of the box so that stuff is just garbage so if you are going to use one of these faucets i strongly recommend that you go to amazon you can pick up a spool of high quality silicon tubing so on the left is an example of the tube that comes with any of these products and the one on the right is the one i bought on amazon this stuff will not kink and it's if you want to order it at six millimeter inner diameter and this one is 10 millimeter external diameter and again they all charge with micro usb so let's line all these things up and see how they look side by side because it's really hard to figure out how big these things are until you see them sitting in the same surface so this is the original faucet that i used in my first video and then the one immediately to its right is the four button jobby and you can see it's pretty much the same size so if you're looking for a one-to-one replacement i think this is probably the way to go and next we have our dentist special so this is the one that has the little metal tube coming out of the side that reminds me every time i'm getting my teeth cleaned so you can see what this guy looks like it's definitely shorter than the first two here and so it's kind of an in-between size uh it's not quite tall enough maybe to fit over a glass and the last one is this little tiny guy it is absolutely adorable and my kids think it looks like a roll of toilet paper so i think that all makes it kind of cute and with this one you know it's uses this textured plastic um it feels really really light i wouldn't say this is exactly a premium product but in a weird way it kind of feels burly and i kind of see this as being a nice little hard to break kind of faucet and if we put them all sort of near each other you can see just how small the short toilet paper one is it'll fit underneath the faucets for the original one or the four button faucet so the micro usb charging port is at the very top it's kind of hidden on the right hand one at the top but there it is and you know they're very similar in height like i said but you know aesthetics wise i really like the one on the left i'm kind of bummed that it's so fragile uh it has a capacitive button on it essentially and that's just not built for life on the road so if we compare the four button model to the dentist uh special you can see it's uh the dentist is shorter by at least an inch and a half and uh just overall fit and finish is pretty bad on it it just looks super cheap and uh just kind of a strange size frankly and the location of the metal tube is the real problem uh it's so low into the base that you know this thing isn't really going to get over a glass of any height at all so you know not my favorite okay and so the final one is our little uh micro toilet paper looking one so the thing i like about this is that the button on the top is very clicky uh it feels more like a physical button than an electronic button so i think that's going to be more rugged so that part i really like uh you can see comparing to all these other ones it is very short but otherwise it has very similar layout it's got the micro usb on the back uh the same connector for the tubing at the bottom you know these are all kind of the same thing it wouldn't surprise me if the guts of these are very similar or even come from the same factory and one little design quirk is even though this is very short the spigot is actually at a higher point than the dentist office special so you know design matters and what i wanted to do is throw all of these on a kitchen scale to see how much each weighed the first one really doesn't count because that has a whole roll of gaffers tape and a bunch of magnets on it but i thought it would be useful to show you the weight differences between all these honestly they're all super lightweight uh and they almost need that weighted base so that they feel more substantial all right next up let's do some measuring so the original faucet was about six inches in the back it rises a little bit in the front and the four button is actually a little bit taller it's about a half an inch taller in the back and our dentist office special is quite a bit shorter that's a little over five inches and then our little guy is only four inches tall so it's really really short and for length the first three are actually all about six inches so this is the original this is the four button and even the dentist office special weighs in right around six inches and our little guy is only three and a half inches like i said this thing is adorable so next up let's do some benchmarking very exciting so i just wanted to see how long it would take for each of these faucets to fill this glass of water all the way to the very top so this is going to tell us how fast each one of the pumps are and i was curious if any of these were going to be much much faster or slower than the others so for our original pump that came in at 19 seconds and i also wanted to test the loudness of these pumps so using my watch i ended up with 58 db so it's pretty quiet these aren't super annoying and for the four button model this one went a little bit slower so this ended up filling the glass in 22 seconds so three seconds slower than the original however in the noise test it did a little bit better so i would call this around 56 db so it's about three decibels quieter which is actually fairly significant all right next up is the the dentist office special you can see i had to hold this up because it's far too short to fill a 16-ounce glass sitting on a table which is kind of silly and so this one actually works fairly well and we ended up with 20 seconds so it was basically the same time let's say one second slower than the original pump and if you look at the flow in this it's super smooth so that's the one thing about it it is very smooth and that also translates into a quieter pump so you can see it's significantly quieter than the other ones and last but not least is our little guy that original noise you heard there is what happens if the hose is full of air so it's not normally that loud on startup and you can hear this thing going and uh this one was going a little slower and also you can see there's a little bit of turbulence going on here and so this ended up taking 24 seconds so this was the slowest one by two seconds and it was a full five seconds behind the original faucet so to sum up these all pump at roughly the same speed and at roughly the same loudness level i would say the dennis office special is probably the smoothest in terms of flow and then the next test i wanted to see is how much head these could produce and so i measured from the ground up to the gutter here and that's a full eight feet and i didn't think these things could even pump that high so but i was pleasantly surprised so this is the four button and that thing could go all the way up to the gutter full eight feet and the original pump could do that as well so that is very very good and you know this is really surprising for something that has a tiny battery and is essentially a usb powered pump these things can all pull at least eight feet of head so for any application that you'd have in a car camper these things will do the trick you can see again with the dentist office special the water is very smooth it's almost like a laminar flow so i don't know if it's something about the metal tube but if you really care about quiet and you care about smoothness and you don't care about how it looks it's kind of an interesting little pump this little guy believe it or not worked just as well as all the larger ones so i would say for this height test they all basically got a passing score they could all do eight feet no problem and for the final and probably most important test it's the drip test so can these things handle back pressure so uh like i said before when these were in the car and the water bricks were at the same level the original pump would drip pretty quickly and so what i wanted to do is test these exactly the same way so i filled the water brick right up to the very very top and between each test i would top it off and you can see i have a hose that goes all the way down to the bottom of the water brick and what i wanted to do is take each pump and put it at the exact same level as the water brick and see what happened and so you can see with the original it's definitely dripping quite a bit and then if you slowly raise it you'll see that the amount of dripping slows down dramatically you can see it doesn't fully stop though so it just becomes a very slow drip and so this thing would need to be fairly high to be at a safe spot in your car if you're storing it connected in fact around 10 inches and moving on to the four button you can see this one does quite a bit better so even when it's at the same level as the water brick it's really a slow drip it's much much slower than the original pump so this is a big improvement and if you raise it up the dripping slows down dramatically and it really does get to a point where it doesn't drip at all and so looking at the bottom you can see the safe level for this in the car if you're storing it is probably five or six inches if you're using a water brick so that just means it needs to be elevated off the ground if you leave it connected and for the dentist office special this one was leaking more for sure than the four button and as we start bringing it up you can see the dripping does slow down quite a bit so this thing does perform probably a little bit better than the original pump but not nearly as well as the four button so i think this one i would want to have it a little higher off the ground to make sure it's not going to be dripping everywhere so i would call that maybe nine inches all right so looking at the last one our little pump you can see this one is actually dripping fast so this is dripping again not as fast as the original pump but it's probably in second place so it's not doing that great and as you move it up it does seem like it handles the back pressure decently well so the dripping slows down eventually but with this guy i would definitely want to store it fairly high off the ground but because it's so small you could kind of just stick it to the side of the file cabinet or something and it would be fine and obviously as the water level and the water bricks goes down a little bit this dripping becomes much less of a problem so now that i've found some options that work better and will drip less i'll feel a little bit more confident my plan still is to just use magnets and keep these things stuck maybe to the side of the file cabinet so they're fairly high off the ground and then when i get to a campsite what i'll do is i will just grab the water brick and i'll put it on the ground and that way there's no back pressure at all on the faucet and speaking of magnets my thought is to try these larger ceramic magnets instead of all the smaller ones just to see if it's a cleaner install so i'll let you know how that goes once i get that finished up all right so wrapping up what are my thoughts on which one of these is the best faucet if you're putting together a diy kitchen faucet in your car or minivan or suv so i think as a direct replacement this four button model is probably the way to go i don't love the way it looks but it does perform really well and you know it doesn't drip too much it has good speed and it's not super loud the dentist special is surprisingly smooth and quiet but i just think the design is so wonky that i don't want to use it i also have concerns about the reliability of this button so uh we're going to skip on that one that one's going to go back to amazon and believe it or not i'm going to keep this really small one just as a backup because now that i know that these things can die on me this thing is so small i can just leave it in my gear and if my main faucet breaks i'll just plug this one in and just keep moving on from there so that's my plan so i'm going to keep the four button and i'm going to keep this little guy and the other one's going back to amazon and i'm going to retire the original one because it's super stressful that it never shuts off all right so this is a little simulation of my final setup so four button uh faucet you can see it holds the glass really nicely so even if i don't want to put the sink in i can still fit a smaller glass underneath it and the little guy is going to need a step stool so you probably have to pick it up and hold it over a glass or have this sink installed but i think it will work fine in a pinch so i just hope this was helpful to you as you're starting to think about your build and i'm honestly blown away by the response to my first video so uh thank you so much for watching and subscribing and i have a lot more future videos planned around the topic so thanks again so you

Channel: Todd Parker

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Id: 8YWEPbO8500

Length: 19min 36sec (1176 seconds)

Published: Fri Aug 07 2020