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Searching for the Holy Grail.........
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Red diesel is about to get more expensive and harder to get
In a move to "clean up construction" (not my words) the tax relief on it will be stopped, doesn't affect farms though
However the kit to replace the diesel burning plant either doesn't exist or is prohibitively expensive
Some of my sites now have electric powered plant so instead of 4 or 5 engines running we now have 4 or 5 generators running with leads all over the place......
In a move to "clean up construction" (not my words) the tax relief on it will be stopped, doesn't affect farms though
However the kit to replace the diesel burning plant either doesn't exist or is prohibitively expensive
Some of my sites now have electric powered plant so instead of 4 or 5 engines running we now have 4 or 5 generators running with leads all over the place......
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Searching for the Holy Grail.........
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Yes, pretty soon too, my cousin was down today to see me and at present he is holding 3000 gallons of the stuff, he is also a farmer and not slow on the uptake, you can bet he will have thought it through.
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This is what I got today.
Because I got about 2000Liters of diesel (or kerosene don’t know what the heating stuff called in English) and using nearly nothing I will feed it into this unit. I change over to woodchips for my prison..
Exited to feel the difference in my garage but as usual it will generally took some months to install such things. But maybe….
Because I got about 2000Liters of diesel (or kerosene don’t know what the heating stuff called in English) and using nearly nothing I will feed it into this unit. I change over to woodchips for my prison..
Exited to feel the difference in my garage but as usual it will generally took some months to install such things. But maybe….
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I can see whats going to happen farms are going to be hit hard for stealing red diesel
all for sites and those that still drive with red diesel
skotl
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At first I thought you'd mounted it vertically and was going to respond with a "Ummmm.... will that work?".
Then I spotted the shoe
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Its already not uncommon, nor is folk getting their heating oil tanks emptied on a dark night!
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Got mine installed this afternoon, put a piece of scaffold tube through the wall (thermalite cavity wall, 250mm). As it turned out the hole happened to end up right on a mortar joint, and, just to test my arm muscles out, of course there was a wall tie right in the way - the drill won and my arm lost!
Slightly concerned that the insulation in the cavity is polystyrene, but I’m hoping that the 24mm exhaust floating about in the 50mm scaffold tube is not going to give me problems. Ran the heater up this evening for about 15 minutes and it seems alright.
Slightly concerned that the insulation in the cavity is polystyrene, but I’m hoping that the 24mm exhaust floating about in the 50mm scaffold tube is not going to give me problems. Ran the heater up this evening for about 15 minutes and it seems alright.
But if the air recirculates and gets hotter every time it goes round , you may be surprised at how well it works ,,, unless all the heat leaks out of course
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Stage 3. Having moved the fuel tank I've fitted a tap and also given the fuel line some protection as it crosses the back wall, as I normally stand medium-lengths of wood and metal against that wall.
^^^ going to put some rubber sealant in there to centre the fuel line so it's not touching the edge of the pipe.
...or disconnect from the tap and fit the rubber grommet I forgot to fit at that end... VVV
^^^ going to put some rubber sealant in there to centre the fuel line so it's not touching the edge of the pipe.
...or disconnect from the tap and fit the rubber grommet I forgot to fit at that end... VVV
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Dont know if anyone replied but they run for 30 minutes then shut down. Id sold one to a boatyard chap and when I delivered it we had a good natter about them . I asked him how they get around this issue on the bosts and he said they use either the webasto timer or the 7day chinese timers (link below) and set a number of on/off periods per day
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Ah right, every day is a school day
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TBH, if they're fitting them on boats, I would've thought they would know that. You can get Webasto standalone ones but I plan to use a microPC with a pair of USB thermistors and the Webasto software to make it think it's fitted to a vehicle and run as required, I may well add a remote interface for a pre-heat - but only because i have a 'spare' kit kicking around
.The PC will be able to do 'normal' stuff as well so it won't be wasted just running a heater!
Why would you use a sensor that covers a relatively huge temperature range and have to base readings on millivolt differences for the useable range you need, when you can use a sensor that provides several k-ohm variation over the range you need?
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I‘ve run mine for about four hours total so far over the last week or so. A bit of a whiff of diesel this morning, so I took the cover off to find that fuel had been leaking out of the tank supply fitting. Emptied the tank and mopped up the mess and discovered the fitting was hardly even hand tight.
While I had the cover off I re-routed the fuel line and fitted a grommet where it passes through a razor sharp hole in the tin work. Refitted the cover to find that half the self-tappers had been overtightened and had stripped their threads.
These things really are built down to a price.
While I had the cover off I re-routed the fuel line and fitted a grommet where it passes through a razor sharp hole in the tin work. Refitted the cover to find that half the self-tappers had been overtightened and had stripped their threads.
These things really are built down to a price.
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I fitted one of these diesel heaters for a friend a couple of months to heat the kitchen of their stone built cottage just above Yorkshire (lovely place but cold and bleak in winter), it's installed in the back porch and ducting takes the heated air into the house.
Message from her today "It's a game changer - has been running almost continuous for 2 months, used very little fuel, the kitchen is now the heart of the house and the pets are a lot happier". Impressive results for something costing under £100
Message from her today "It's a game changer - has been running almost continuous for 2 months, used very little fuel, the kitchen is now the heart of the house and the pets are a lot happier". Impressive results for something costing under £100
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And a quick update - after fitting the cover I connected up the power supply, or tried to, as the negative terminal fell apart - more fixings that were only hand tight. Cover off yet again, and I now have to find some decent self-tappers as all but two have stripped now. But at least it doesn’t leak diesel anymore. I’m tempted to change the power supply cables, as the ones supplied look a bit thin to me.
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Have you had this running yet ? Does it heat the garage or is it too small ?
