Diesel heater for workshop

[roys]

1 minute ago, Joe Newton said:

How are you powering these? I thought they were designed to be run off a leisure battery?

Car battery will do just fine, it has an initial 15A draw to heat the glow plug then it goes down to a couple of amps. Using a spare car battery just now, I intend to use a 12V 15A power pack once I rake through my stuff as I am fairly certain I have one.

[eggsarascal]

19 minutes ago, roys said:

Car battery will do just fine, it has an initial 15A draw to heat the glow plug then it goes down to a couple of amps. Using a spare car battery just now, I intend to use a 12V 15A power pack once I rake through my stuff as I am fairly certain I have one.

A 15A power pack is going to be right at its limit during startup and shutdown, worth a try if you have one but I think it will be under powered.

[Mark Bolam]

I was just going to plug mine in.

 

Do they come with a plug or croc clips?

If it’s clips what would be a good battery choice?

[roys]

1 hour ago, Mark Bolam said:

I was just going to plug mine in.

 

Do they come with a plug or croc clips?

If it’s clips what would be a good battery choice?

Bare cable ends, the positive lead is fused at 20A with a car style fuse. The 12V demand is only big at start up so any car, leisure or lithium jump pack battery should do the trick.

[roys]

1 hour ago, eggsarascal said:

A 15A power pack is going to be right at its limit during startup and shutdown, worth a try if you have one but I think it will be under powered.

Yip it will just be a case of raking through the very large box of power supplies that I have and seeing what is 15A or over.

[GarethM]

Car battery and balance charger is the recommended setup.

 

Gives the heater more than enough oomph for starting and cooling down as it shouldn't be just turned off and always good incase of a power cut etc.

[eggsarascal]

Did ya get one, Bolam?

[Mark Bolam]

Not yet mate, got to have a sort out in the workshop first.

[scbk]

I fitted a brand new eberspacher d2 to a van years ago, that thing was about £800! And a fair bit of work to get a feed from the main fuel tank.

 

 

Got one of the cheap chinese heaters for the house, still not got round to doing a proper heating system. Got a woodburner in the lounge but it's not enough when it's sub zero.

Removed a disused vent and put two 4" stainless pipes through the wall for the warm air and return to the heater, and some plastic waste pipe for cables.

Extended the wires on the controller/display so that is inside the house.

The battery is an old lorry battery, 12v 220ah as I have a few lying about. Charger is inside with an extended cable going out.

 

Still needs a bit of fiddling round ie try and insulate the air pipes a bit more.

Tin cans can be used as joiners/adaptors for the 75mm ducting, and to get the exhaust through wood

Fuel tank is 5l but only about 4l is usable.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[eggsarascal]

11 hours ago, Mark Bolam said:

Not yet mate, got to have a sort out in the workshop first.

Temperature will be back in double figures first.