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Following this since I've got an '8KW' one on order.
Be warned I doubt very much they actually are 8kw. The one I ordered claims to be and yet the manual states 5kw. Looking at similar sized Eberspachers they are 5kw. Still plenty of heat though and cheap as chips. I paid £135 all in!
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Yes I suspect as much but hoping it can take the chill off for really cold days in the workshop.
Installation is quite a faff. If you have a big draughty area I would use one of these.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Tayosan-...722153?hash=item1a676379a9:g:U08AAOSw9IpXyVmj
They also do smaller cheaper ones.
These are unvented - was too smelly to use in our front office full of staff but the kitchen area is great no smell at all. They would have been a godsend in my draughty old farmhouse I used to live in.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/8000W-8KW-LCD-Air-Diesel-Heater-PLANAR-12V-for-Cars-Trucks-Motor-Homes-Boats-UK/142977264769?ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT&_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649
This is the one I have just bought - as I said more likely 5kw than 8 but at less than £140 who cares. Delivery was very fast and everything complete - not fired it up yet though.
Now I will be buying a load of ducting from TLC to do a neat job of it. Rectangular plastic stuff for the cold air side and lagged aluminium hose type for the hot air. Exhaust straight out of the building through the wriggly tin. Installing it above one of our offices so have to do a very neat job to keep elf and safety happy.
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Do you have any problems with condensation, i imagine paraffin as a burning fuel would give off quite a bit of moisture?
Its always a gamble with direct combustion, gas is terrible for condensation, red diesel appears to the the best i have found so far.
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Fitted a couple of these to boats a short while back. First one worked great, well for a week or so 
Second one we couldn't get to fire at all, it was the simple controller and it was just showing 2 LEDs which we eventually found out was over voltage. I measured the voltage and it was fine, around the 26/27v mark. So that was when I wondered if it was a 12v circuit board inside even though it had been sold as 24v and had a 24v sticker on it. Hooked it up to 12v and it was much happier, the control worked as it should regarding the LED display but the pump was hardly pulsing so obviously it was a 24v pump and a 12v heater. Skipper had enough of it and skipped it and bought a Webasto heater which fortunately bolted to the same brackets I had made and exhaust and inlet sizes were the same so they didn't need altered either
Second one we couldn't get to fire at all, it was the simple controller and it was just showing 2 LEDs which we eventually found out was over voltage. I measured the voltage and it was fine, around the 26/27v mark. So that was when I wondered if it was a 12v circuit board inside even though it had been sold as 24v and had a 24v sticker on it. Hooked it up to 12v and it was much happier, the control worked as it should regarding the LED display but the pump was hardly pulsing so obviously it was a 24v pump and a 12v heater. Skipper had enough of it and skipped it and bought a Webasto heater which fortunately bolted to the same brackets I had made and exhaust and inlet sizes were the same so they didn't need altered either
I use kero or paraffin. I was concerned about humidity but I measured it and the room was at 61% - outside was 85%. The heater I have is 4.5kw and it is perfect in a room about 500sq ft with normal height ceilings. For a smaller room they do 3kw and 2kw models.
There is a a bad bit of design with it.
They only stink when first switched on or switched off. Using the AUTO function of course it keeps cycling on or off. I use it on minimum or when very cold put it on auto but whack the temp up to say 26C which it will never reach in a big room. That way it is always running.
Seriously it would have made our life in our old farmhouse so much better. We ran up a £2000 electric bill - on top of using tons of wood.
It is actually a pleasant heat - fan heaters tend to dry the air too much and make my eyes bad.
Fitted a couple of these to boats a short while back. First one worked great, well for a week or so
Second one we couldn't get to fire at all, it was the simple controller and it was just showing 2 LEDs which we eventually found out was over voltage. I measured the voltage and it was fine, around the 26/27v mark. So that was when I wondered if it was a 12v circuit board inside even though it had been sold as 24v and had a 24v sticker on it. Hooked it up to 12v and it was much happier, the control worked as it should regarding the LED display but the pump was hardly pulsing so obviously it was a 24v pump and a 12v heater. Skipper had enough of it and skipped it and bought a Webasto heater which fortunately bolted to the same brackets I had made and exhaust and inlet sizes were the same so they didn't need altered either
Too early to tell yet what they are like but I showed it to a few people on our industrial estate - they said loads of boys with T5 campers were using them and very happy. We shall see. If I have to buy a new one every year I will be happy - will save me about £2000 a year on electric!
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Think it is a bit like anything cheap from China, you can get ones that are dead out the box, ones that last a few weeks/months or ones that run for years.
Most of the boats here have Webasto or Eberspacher and they last a long long time, in fact I don't even recall of any packing up completely, I think a few have had new plugs and a clean out but none have actually died as far as I am aware. They do cost 6 to 8x more than the Chinese ones though.
Most of the boats here have Webasto or Eberspacher and they last a long long time, in fact I don't even recall of any packing up completely, I think a few have had new plugs and a clean out but none have actually died as far as I am aware. They do cost 6 to 8x more than the Chinese ones though.
From what I have seen the cost is about 20x more! Looking at the construction Webasto and Ebespacher have been ripping people off for years!
Sometimes Chinese stuff is just too cheap. I would have been happy paying say £400 for better quality rather than the £140 I actually paid. Wish there was a middle ground.
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Didn't think they were that much, think I heard that they were around about the £1k for 5Kw ones but maybe not as I wasn't really listening as I have no real interest as it is not my money I could find out for certain tomorrow though as I will be up working on one of the Cats I am currently fitting out and they have just fitted a Webasto to the one I fitted out last year.
That is if I remember
I could find out for certain tomorrow though as I will be up working on one of the Cats I am currently fitting out and they have just fitted a Webasto to the one I fitted out last year.That is if I remember
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Sorry Vince, I misunderstood, I assumed it was electric
With the 24V feed and diesel as the fuel I'll pass. Also at that price I'll come back into the house if it gets too cold in the shed. 
No it is a 12v feed.Sorry Vince, I misunderstood, I assumed it was electric
Surely as a true Scotsman running costs at 1/3 that of electric must be of interest!
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Thanks, got the supply current wrong too!
But that aside [I do have a 12V supply I could use], the carting storing diesel from 14 miles away would be a right pain in the testes, so I'll say...."I'm out"
Thanks, got the supply current wrong too!
But that aside [I do have a 12V supply I could use], the carting storing diesel from 14 miles away would be a right pain in the testes, so I'll say...."I'm out"
I will use kero - cheaper and cleaner.
