Stumbled across your channel researching diesel coolant heaters. Thanks for the review! I have a Kuuma water heater I plan on installing with it in the coolant loop in my Diesel E350. I lived in LaPine for 6 years.... Love the dispersed camping and forest roads in that area. Cheers!
Awesome! Thank you so much for keeping us updated on the Adventure Bus. Great job on hunting down all of the parts and making them work. You should be in the professional fabrication and innovation/design business. See you on the next one my friend. Stay safe, warm, healthy, and happy!
Looking for a review on the clarorifier and hydronic heater for heating water. How long does it take to heat the water? And also does it have a max time setting? Can it be set to run constantly, to keep the coolant within the set range for days at a time?
Definitely gonna pencil that one in my notes for my alternative diesel hydronic heater source, I'll take the $300 price point vs $1k version. While poking around the interwebs gathering different heating ideas in the hydronic realm, I found one that incorporated a single wall heat exchanger to seperate the domestic side and the engine chassis side for a bit of redundancy. In the event there is a failure on the domestic side you won't end up dumping all of your engine coolant. The only downside that I can see is you'll need an expansion tank on the domestic side and an auxillary electric water pump on the chassis side to circulate the engine coolant to keep the engine warm for those cold nights when needed. You could also fire up the domestic side of the water pump only when you're driving to your next destination to steal some of the engine heat to for your hot water tank and/or cabin heat. Hydronic heating definitely opens up quite a bit of options.
That's a part of my plan. Run heater hose through the heat exchanger to the engine, then the blower for the house, then under the aluminum floor of my ambulance (insulate from the bottom and add some protection). I'm also thinking about running a second heat exchanger from that that would circulate water through a 110v tank water heater (hot water from coolant + hot water storage + ability to heat the water from solar or heat the floor/engine/house from the water heater on solar power). I'm building an air plenum to heat the house heater matrix with my diesel air heater. My ambulance's rear heater matrix is also an a/c evaporator, so I can cool the house down while driving.
I need something like that but bigger for my 1967 GM TDH-4519 city transit bus that I live in full-time but my agm batteries took a dump on me and now I don't have any power when the sun goes down. I'm disabled and poor so it's going to take a while to save up for batteries
@@WanderingBeast cool! Can you share details? I Really am sold on installing a water heater, and the floor heating would be “the heat”. I’m building a 40’skoolie and only have 2” insulation on the floor. So thinking floor heater will make a nice compliment. Unlike most who are snow birds, we chase the cold.
@@WanderingBeast not rushing (but if i could i would LOL), but when are you thinking it will be released? Pretty excited about this. I have been hunting for the Lavaner water heater. it’s super elusive! Do you still recommend the heater you listed on your first video? I have 140gal of diesel on board so I’ll just drop a line in there. Also have a 87 octane gas for my Onan. I don’t know why I told you that, other than a subtle flex, so disregard LOL. Love what you are doing and great videos.
You could heat your diesel tank and oil pan with the exhaust heat from the diesel water heater. Another option would be to use heated coolant loops from the circulating cooling system. Is that a 7.3? If you could circulate the oil through the motor, it would pre heat through the oil cooler since it already has pre heated coolant circulating.
Stumbled across your channel researching diesel coolant heaters. Thanks for the review! I have a Kuuma water heater I plan on installing with it in the coolant loop in my Diesel E350. I lived in LaPine for 6 years.... Love the dispersed camping and forest roads in that area. Cheers!
Awesome! Thank you so much for keeping us updated on the Adventure Bus. Great job on hunting down all of the parts and making them work. You should be in the professional fabrication and innovation/design business. See you on the next one my friend. Stay safe, warm, healthy, and happy!
Thanks for the update. Happy Holidays. TAKE CARE..
Thank you for sharing, including visuals of system and advice for ALCAN.
Glad it's been working out for you.
Thanks for the video brother
Thanks for the information!
I miss the old days. With the 1210 international and the HossUsmac. The good old dayss
Looking for a review on the clarorifier and hydronic heater for heating water. How long does it take to heat the water? And also does it have a max time setting? Can it be set to run constantly, to keep the coolant within the set range for days at a time?
Can this thing run heater fan for interior???
Definitely gonna pencil that one in my notes for my alternative diesel hydronic heater source, I'll take the $300 price point vs $1k version.
While poking around the interwebs gathering different heating ideas in the hydronic realm, I found one that incorporated a single wall heat exchanger to seperate the domestic side and the engine chassis side for a bit of redundancy.
In the event there is a failure on the domestic side you won't end up dumping all of your engine coolant. The only downside that I can see is you'll need an expansion tank on the domestic side and an auxillary electric water pump on the chassis side to circulate the engine coolant to keep the engine warm for those cold nights when needed.
You could also fire up the domestic side of the water pump only when you're driving to your next destination to steal some of the engine heat to for your hot water tank and/or cabin heat. Hydronic heating definitely opens up quite a bit of options.
Did you have to use an expansion tank for it?
Not yet
Where did you get the coil tank for heating water?
heatso calorifier
Central Oregon cold? The winds not even blowing. Come up to North Dakota, you’ll find way more enthusiasm and ambition to find sources of heat. 😅
Thas sounds like it would be good for infloor heating.
It crossed my mind for sure
That's a part of my plan. Run heater hose through the heat exchanger to the engine, then the blower for the house, then under the aluminum floor of my ambulance (insulate from the bottom and add some protection). I'm also thinking about running a second heat exchanger from that that would circulate water through a 110v tank water heater (hot water from coolant + hot water storage + ability to heat the water from solar or heat the floor/engine/house from the water heater on solar power).
I'm building an air plenum to heat the house heater matrix with my diesel air heater. My ambulance's rear heater matrix is also an a/c evaporator, so I can cool the house down while driving.
I need something like that but bigger for my 1967 GM TDH-4519 city transit bus that I live in full-time but my agm batteries took a dump on me and now I don't have any power when the sun goes down. I'm disabled and poor so it's going to take a while to save up for batteries
They scale up to bigger models. Semi trucks often use them up north
Did you ever install the heated floor heating with your CDH water heater?
No. But it's works great for my water heater
@@WanderingBeast cool! Can you share details? I Really am sold on installing a water heater, and the floor heating would be “the heat”. I’m building a 40’skoolie and only have 2” insulation on the floor. So thinking floor heater will make a nice compliment. Unlike most who are snow birds, we chase the cold.
@@willardwilliams2668 video coming
@@WanderingBeast not rushing (but if i could i would LOL), but when are you thinking it will be released? Pretty excited about this. I have been hunting for the Lavaner water heater. it’s super elusive! Do you still recommend the heater you listed on your first video? I have 140gal of diesel on board so I’ll just drop a line in there. Also have a 87 octane gas for my Onan. I don’t know why I told you that, other than a subtle flex, so disregard LOL. Love what you are doing and great videos.
Really cool build man. What headlights are those? Quite unique.
Thanks. I built them
You could heat your diesel tank and oil pan with the exhaust heat from the diesel water heater. Another option would be to use heated coolant loops from the circulating cooling system. Is that a 7.3? If you could circulate the oil through the motor, it would pre heat through the oil cooler since it already has pre heated coolant circulating.
Does anyone know what A-On of F-ON in the menu means?