Aqua Cube Base Camp Shower battery replacement

Update: The new battery seems to have fixed the problem. We charged it up and let it sit a month before camping and it fired right up with a full charge. This last camping trip we took 5-6 long showers with two bars still showing.

Problems:

The first unit I owned (2014) stopped working after the first season and sprung a water leak. I was still under warranty so I reached out to Mr. Heater who sent me a replacement unit (2015).

The second unit worked for a season until the battery slowly started dying out quicker and quicker until it would die after 1.5 times of use. By this time (2017) I am long outside of the warranty and must find a solution on my own.

Replace The Battery

Locate your model number for manual referencing on the back of the unit.

Aqua cube #F235896  Owners Manual.

Tools Needed

• A Phillips head screw driver
• piece of paper and pen

1.) Remove the base plate and feet by removing two screws from each of the footings, the exterior screw resembled that of a wood screw and was brass in color vs the typical machine screw removed from the inner side of the footing.

Remove the bottom screws and keep them organized with like kind screws aka all the blue circled screws are different from the purple circled screws so don’t mix them.

#2. Remove bottom vent plate

Do not remove the Red circled Screws this is the battery cover!

TIP: If you get to this point of removing the battery and there just doesn’t seem to be enough slack on the wiring then remove the 5 screws from from the back panel where the propane connector is and pull that apart. Doing this will free up the electrical harness and give more slack.

To Remove the battery pull back the blue connector sheathing and compress the clip on the terminal connector and pull it away from the battery terminal!

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