Diesel Heater for Garage/Workshop

[Silver-Fox]

Jesus, £1615 each are trying to give Lenny a heart attack.

I glanced at it and thought it was £161

Glad I didn’t hit buy it now

 

[Ivory55]

I wonder if the little 12v ones have been used for greenhouse heaters. Low consumption and use a battery and save running mains cable etc, or would it be a bit to much for them.

 

[Two on Tour]

Lenny, I have about 4 foot of ducting from the heater under the van to the outlet in the van, and I have just measured the temperature at the outlet in the van and it is 87.6c with the heater running at 5hz.

 

[Lenny HB]

Lenny, I have about 4 foot of ducting from the heater under the van to the outlet in the van, and I have just measured the temperature at the outlet in the van and it is 87.6c with the heater running at 5hz.

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More like what I was expecting, my 49° is pointing the gun straight in the heater outlet. Let's hope the controller allows me to tinker.

 

[Two on Tour]

More like what I was expecting, my 49° is pointing the gun straight in the heater outlet. Let's hope the controller allows me to tinker.

If you do get into the sub menus, you can adjust the fan speed in relation to the fuel delivery rate, but of course, you need the correct air to fuel ratio to get a clean efficient burn.

Here's a graph of the standard leaving the factory settings for the fuel-air on 5kw heater.

 

[Paulypaul]

Bit late to this thread but for what it's worth, a boatyard next to where I park my truck has several remote sheds/outbuildings for different uses. Last winter they started producing a different boat and needed a heated environment.
£100 Chinese night heater, exhaust fed through the side of the building with appropriate shroud, powered by a leisure battery which was also connected to a 240v charger. They've run it since last years winter and it's spot on and toasty. I think it's a 5kw model with integral fuel tank and the building must measure 35'x25' at least.

Once I clear some stuff out of my garage I'm going to go down this route.

 

[paddymcc]

The output temperature does sound low Lenny but the bigger problem is that you don't have roof insulation. Sorry, that's another expense...

 

[mitzimad]

did you check if the controller is detachable?

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[Two on Tour]

did you check if the controller is detachable?

It is , but why does that matter ?

 

[JockandRita]

It is , but why does that matter ?

Paul, I think the relevance was as in Steve's post earlier, re the heat outlet being adjacent to the thermostat within the controller.

just looked at the picture and youve got the controller mounted near the outlets im prety sure that unit is a thermostat so if its adjacent to heat it will be cutting the output i assume it detaches to be mounted remotely as the other type of van heater would

Cheers,

Jock.

 

[Two on Tour]

Lenny, is the fuel line on your heater a hard plastic pneumatic type or a softer fish tank type tubing ?

 

[Raul]

Pictures please, show us your heater.

 

[donkey]

Pictures please, show us your heater.

And not one from the brochure. Most of them show a huge flame coming out of the outlet port, similar to RAF jet on after-burner.

Geoff

 

[Neckender]

Here’s a picture of mine in the garage and it works very well, and the wiring is a lot tidier now.
John.

 

[poppycamper]

Here’s a picture of mine in the garage and it works very well, and the wiring is a lot tidier now.
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Nice safe place to keep petrol container

 

[Neckender]

Empty diesel container.

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[Lenny HB]

The controller barely gets warm so that's not the ptoblem.
Tried playing about with different compilations of buttons but I couldn't et into any settings. Got the display to show temperature setting, wound it up to max 35° it was no different.

If I don't have any luck it will be going back.

 

[Two on Tour]

There was a reason why I asked about the fuel line, but no matter if it is going back.

 

[donkey]

The controller barely gets warm so that's not the ptoblem.
Tried playing about with different compilations of buttons but I couldn't et into any settings. Got the display to show temperature setting, wound it up to max 35° it was no different.

If I don't have any luck it will be going back.

I am sure you will have had a look on Youtube, there are a few showing how to access the advanced settings.

Geoff

 

[Raul]

There was a reason why I asked about the fuel line, but no matter if it is going back.

Agree with Paul on this one. If it’s got the soft tubing is under fuelled, less heat. From the pump to heater it’s got to be the hard plastic tubing.

 

[Neckender]

Mine has the soft tubing and is working fine.
John.

 

[Two on Tour]

I am sure you will have had a look on Youtube, there are a few showing how to access the advanced settings.

Geoff

Lenny's controller has been showing up only very recently and has no "OK" button which is normally along with the up button used to access the sub menus and these units have not been supplied with user manuals and I think this may be a ploy to stop users messing with the setting and basically ballsing things up.

 

[Two on Tour]

Mine has the soft tubing and is working fine.
John.

Lucky you, but it causes problems for many others.

Watch the video from 14.59 on and you will see what can be a problem.

 

[Lenny HB]

Agree with Paul on this one. If it’s got the soft tubing is under fuelled, less heat. From the pump to heater it’s got to be the hard plastic tubing.

Had a look at it before firing up looked like the hard tubing.

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[mitzimad]

i fitted a boiler with the new type digital thermostat that you can move around the house on its little stand , got a call back and found they had put the thermostat under the boiler next to the pipework as they didnt like it on show in the room humout me and put the controller outside

 

[Neckender]

Customer always knows best!
John.

 

[Lenny HB]

Pictures please, show us your heater.

Just to keep you happy.

 

[Two on Tour]

Just to keep you happy.
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Interesting that it's an aluminum cased version.

 

[Lenny HB]

Interesting that it's an aluminum cased version.

Are they normally steel?

 

[Two on Tour]

Are they normally steel?

The guts of the heater itself are aluminum but the outer casing is usually plastic with the odd few having an outer casing in aluminum, plus your outer casing design is not the norm.