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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2020 13:28:50 GMT
Obviously hot air heaters are quite tempting but they usually require quite a lot of installation. Fuel tank, mounting, pipework, exhaust etc. This one just needs exhaust. It has its own tank and blows air direct out of the unit. It's a free standing item which can be easily put away for summer. Effectively all it needs is a single insulated skin fitting, power supply, and fuel. Nothing else needed. Probably junk and definitely wanting a CO monitor close by but it could be quite a nice little backup unit to add diesel to the mix of heating fuel options without doing a major installation. www.ebay.co.uk/itm/12V-Air-Diesel-Night-Heater-5KW-4Holes-LCD-Monitor-for-Car-boats-Truck-home-bus-/383628909262Looks interesting
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2020 13:46:10 GMT
Would you really put your trust in it?
It go boom!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2020 13:52:25 GMT
I think being Diesel it would probably be okay but not too sure about if it would do anything at all.
Apparently some of the cheap (fixed) versions of this type of thing are actually okay.
It would be definitely want to be attended. Not a "night heater".
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Post by brummieboy on Sept 4, 2020 15:39:53 GMT
30 day warranty? Whilst it appears frugal on oil, it makes no mention of electrical consumption, or the power of the circulation motor. It would need to be ducted.
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Post by Mr Stabby on Sept 4, 2020 16:00:21 GMT
Can't see it putting out 5kW of heat on 0.1 litres of diesel per hour somehow.
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Post by Jim on Sept 4, 2020 16:06:37 GMT
I met a chap converting an army truck into a go anywhere camper - impressive vehicle. Anyway he said he had got one and it was ok. Way cheaper than a webaspacher.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2020 16:07:49 GMT
That's an impossibility. I assume the 5kw is flat out and the 0.1 litres is a minimum setting. Around 1kw I would guess. brummieboy I don't think it would need ducting air wise. You could just stand it in the right place. The exhaust would obviously need routing to external area away from doors and vents but that's normal for one of these devices. I think it's quite an interesting option for a secondary heating on a boat which has a fire, and a healthy electrical system. I like the fact you can easily just put it away for the non heating season.
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Post by lollygagger on Sept 4, 2020 16:15:02 GMT
I know someone who has one. It's well made and incredibly quiet running.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2020 17:07:33 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2020 17:09:39 GMT
I met a chap converting an army truck into a go anywhere camper - impressive vehicle. Anyway he said he had got one and it was ok. Way cheaper than a webaspacher. I'll leave this here.... Credit John Ruskin π βThere is hardly anything in the world that someone cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price alone are that personβs lawful prey. Itβs unwise to pay too much, but itβs worse to pay too little. When you pay too much, you lose a little money β that is all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought was incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do. The common law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting a lot β it canβt be done. If you deal with the lowest bidder, it is well to add something for the risk you run, and if you do that you will have enough to pay for something better.β
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Post by naughtyfox on Sept 4, 2020 17:32:33 GMT
Can't see it putting out 5kW of heat on 0.1 litres of diesel per hour somehow. The Chinese lie about everything. Still, the British forced them to become opium addicts, so what goes around comes knocking on your door later.
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Post by naughtyfox on Sept 4, 2020 17:33:52 GMT
I know someone who has one. It's well made and incredibly quiet running. What's it like the next day?
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Post by naughtyfox on Sept 4, 2020 17:36:30 GMT
I met a chap converting an army truck into a go anywhere camper - impressive vehicle. Anyway he said he had got one and it was ok. Way cheaper than a webaspacher. I'll leave this here.... Credit John Ruskin π βThere is hardly anything in the world that someone cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price alone are that personβs lawful prey. Itβs unwise to pay too much, but itβs worse to pay too little. When you pay too much, you lose a little money β that is all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought was incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do. The common law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting a lot β it canβt be done. If you deal with the lowest bidder, it is well to add something for the risk you run, and if you do that you will have enough to pay for something better.β As I have said all along. Old Chinese proverb: narrowboat with cratch filled with logs not cold in winter.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2020 18:32:09 GMT
I met a chap converting an army truck into a go anywhere camper - impressive vehicle. Anyway he said he had got one and it was ok. Way cheaper than a webaspacher. I'll leave this here.... Credit John Ruskin π βThere is hardly anything in the world that someone cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price alone are that personβs lawful prey. Itβs unwise to pay too much, but itβs worse to pay too little. When you pay too much, you lose a little money β that is all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought was incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do. The common law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting a lot β it canβt be done. If you deal with the lowest bidder, it is well to add something for the risk you run, and if you do that you will have enough to pay for something better.β That's fair comment but what about the fact that in some parts of the world labour is significantly cheaper and transport costs are fairly low. This may not have been the case in Ruskin's day. I know there is loads of excessively bad rubbish coming from China but the economics also dictate that you could get a good quality item put together in china and the same item would be more expensive if put together in the UK simply due to cost of living and wages.
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Post by lollygagger on Sept 5, 2020 6:42:27 GMT
I know someone who has one. It's well made and incredibly quiet running. Β What's it like the next day? Same as the day before, he's had it for about a year. Gazza. Easy to knock with zero evidence, but these things are good, and cheap. Were we not used to paying appallingly greedy prices for Webasto and Eberspacher perhaps it wouldn't seem so cheap.
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