Emersion tank...I think???!

[albouy]

Found a lagged tank under the bed. Is it an emersion tank? If so, how is it controlled? Mine is a Fiat Ducati, 1999. Next to it is my 10 liter boiler. the emersion is lagged in fibreglass. Thanks you oracle's.

 

[mitzimad]

Can you add some pictures

 

[BillyKontiki]

What do you mean by an immersion tank.

 

[BillyKontiki]

What do you mean by an immersion tank.

Sorry Emersion tank

 

[cmcardle75]

Found a lagged tank under the bed. Is it an emersion tank? If so, how is it controlled? Mine is a Fiat Ducati, 1999. Next to it is my 10 liter boiler. the emersion is lagged in fibreglass. Thanks you oracle's.

As you've already identified your hot water tank, the tank you've located is likely to be a winterised onboard fresh water tank, or even grey water tank.

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[cmcardle75]

Sorry Emersion tank

I don't think it is a spelling issue! (Immersion is correct, emersion is not a word). It is just that "immersion tank" is not a commonly used thing for a motorhome. I think he was asking what you meant by it? We're probably generally imagining that you mean a hot water tank heated by an electrical element, except that you mentioned a 10 litre "boiler", which sounds like you've already found that, as any electrical heated tank of hot water would be the same as the gas heated version and you wouldn't have 2 hot water heaters.

 

[SandraL]

We had a van with a lagged hot water tank under the seat.
It could be heated by a 240vac immersion heater, or the hot water coil that ran through it.
In our case that hot water coil was supplied by a diesel heater.
Otherwise it could possibly have been fed off the engine cooling circuit.

 

[autorouter]

As cmcardle75 says, it's more likely to be a fresh or waste water tank lagged to protect against frost. You could look at the pipes connected to it. Do they look like fresh water pipes (about 12mm), or are they more like waste water pipes (25mm or more)?

Lagged tanks sometimes have a flat heater pad underneath them, to stop them freezing not to provide hot water. Are there several pipe connections, like for a heating coil using hot water from a diesel heater or from the engine cooling?

It's very unlikely that there's an immersion heater, the element takes a lot of power and would only be useful if there was a good electrical hookup supply. Not impossible, just unlikely. Many motorhome conversions are very individual, converted to suit the converter's needs.

It's possible that the 10-litre boiler contains one or two low power immersion heater elements. Some are gas only, but a lot have these mains powered elements in addition.

 

[albouy]

 

[icantremember]

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Are you certain it's a water tank and not a wheel arch?

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[pappajohn]

The base vehicle is Fiat Ducato but what is the converters name and model.... IE Swift Kontiki.

 

[mitzimad]

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Looks like a wheel arch to me as well does it line up with your wheels?

 

[Just smiffy]

The mrs has stashed your Xmas present there….

 

[albouy]

Thanks Smiffy, I thought it might be Paddington bear having a kip! Well, thanks to all who took the trouble to reply...most appreciated....and all those who recognised it 'as my wheel-arch' ..you were right. der...der...! My only excuse is it's better to check with you experts first..but thanks to all.