Amazon's Cheapest Diesel Heater - Silvel 8KW
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Handy little heater. Very nice! A follow up would be great, I might get one for my building. Thanks for sharing, Tony!
Have one in the sleeper on my truck. 0ne gallon of fuel will run heater 10 hours. Great product.
Thank you for the information. That is a good running time.
Great little portable heater thanks Tony and Tanya
Great job mate god bless and all the best to you all now and Christmas and New Year
Awesome stuff as always guy's 👏
You rock!
Very interesting, yes, a followup video would be nice.
Thank you. We have some extreme cold weather coming. I will follow up after a little more use.
I'm about to try one myself. I wasn't sure which one to get so I went through the 8kw ones and checked the reviews and settled on the Chubu. It's a really nice kit . 10ltr tank all the tools needed. It includes the optional fuel tube to install on larger tanks. It comes with 2 heat tubes and a T so you can set up 2 heat ports. It also comes with what yours came with.
We are going to have some pretty cold weather this week for Tennessee. Mine will get a real workout.
@@TonysTractorAdventure from what I've learned. To extend it's life and keep the burn chamber clean. Be sure to run it on high for about 10 minutes before shutting it down after an extended lower temp burn time.
the heat of that exhaust in combination with wood and plastic as a bad idea. but since you are alive, it worked.
I'd love to see a follow up. I've been thinking about getting one of these. Keep up the grind you lol great. Happy holidays.
Thanks, you too! Merry Christmas my friend. Stay warm!
I installed a Chinese Diesel heater in my 6x12 cargo trailer conversion... I spent all my effort making sure I properly exhausted the unit through my 1 inch insulated wall using a thru-hull stainless outlet as well as using high-temp RTV around my exhaust hose with high quality hose clamps, and thought everything was great.. I now know that I need to also properly setup a thru-hull port for the combustion intake (away from the exhaust). These devices are primitive.. don't trust that the exhaust flow will happen in one direction with 100% certainty... and don't expect your Home Depot CO detector to save you either.. I've smelled the funky smell, and let it go... and it made me pretty sick.. Don't ignore it... do it right.
...also, if you drop the diesel pump frequency, the exhaust-to-intake leak is even worse... Treat the combustion intake just as important as the exhaust itself.
Thank you for your insight. Believe we will be using ours in the way you are. We're using it while building our cabin as a temporary heat source. I'm not really worried about carbon monoxide at the moment. We don't even have windows in.
Nice set up video. When you get it going it may be good to see some before and after it is running temperature changes and how long it takes to get there. Fuel use, outdoor temperature. Good luck with the heater, they are an economical heating source.
Will do. I have a few more days uses now. It is nice to turn it on and start warming up the cabin.
Impressive I like it ❤👍
I am impressed also.
Another You Tube Friend just installed one of these in His shed and had the same fuel line issue.
There are Hundred's of You tube videos of all the variations that the basic Heater in the Bottom of the Cabinet.
Just like all the Electric bicycles and Fancy power Box's LOL...
A local Friend built His own to custom fit it into His Home made toy Hauler Camper.
Thanks Tony...
I noticed the similarities between all the heaters. Several different factories make almost the exact same product. This one had better reviews. That is why I took a chance on it.
@@TonysTractorAdventure I just caught a Video from Wranglerstar about the Fuel line issue with this exact heater build .
For what it's worth from Him, Who I stopped watching... He put the Fuel Filter in the wrong place and it is installed backwards.
He may have done that on purpose to get the Comment count up like a lot of the stuff He does, like Bare feet in the shop and 2 watches Etc HAHAHAHAHAHA....
👍🏻 to be a little bit hot very nice
A follow up would be great
I think that Joe Jensen on Northern Seclusion channel tested and reviewed one of these on his channel in Minnesota.He was using it in his cabin and on his ice fishing shanty trailer.
I just got mine based on you and WanglerStar’s videos. Putting it in my shop/shed. I’d love a follow up showing how much it raised the temps.
I don't believe it would be a fair video to make. Each person's shop/area is different in size and insulation quality. Just know, it puts off very hot air at a reasonable fuel consumption.
It looks like there's a low spot in the exhaust tube where water could collect. The exhaust tube should be shortened a few inches to let condensate out.
Good point.
I’ve been thinking about getting one of those for a while. Curious to see how yours works for you.
To this point it works very well and as you can see from the video, it's stupid proof. 😁
It's amazingly quiet. Mine is an old model, about 5 years old, and really noisy.
Mine gets louder at full power, but it is tolerable.
Not to be a "Safety Sally" or anything, but I think I would purchase a cheap battery operated CO2 detector to put in the area. Other then that, it appears to be a really good alternate heat source. Cabin is looking good. God Bless to you two, and hope y'all have a Merry Christmas.
I don't take that as being a safety. Sally. That seems to be a good, logical thought process. I have CO2 detectors in my home because I have a gas hot water heater, cook stove and fireplace. Once we get the windows in the cabin I think I will put a CO2 detector. They are cheap enough
I agree, but these are exhausted/vented to the outside. So there is about as much chance of CO2 as your house furnace.
It's CO, not CO2
@@ZealousZ_ Co is carbon dioxide, CO2 is carbon monoxide. CO2 is deadly which is what we are talking about avoiding.
@@amerritt261 mono or mon means 1 and di means 2.
change the fuel hose the green is not the write one use the white
You can fill a whole dictionary, just with the brandnames of these heaters. Mine starts with the letter 'V' 😂
I have noticed that as well. In the end, it makes heat!
@@TonysTractorAdventure I think they're all pretty much the same. Some have a different display or a longer exhaust, but the most important part is the same.
On the setting display; Is the P-2.2 to P 5.2 the amount of variable power/ watts of heat the unit is supposed to be making? If this is the case, shouldn't it go as high as P-8.0 since this is an 8 kilowatt unit? I have yet to see one of these "8 kilowatt" units have a setting that would allow it to go to P-8.0.
Please forgive my ignorance. I am just trying to get a handle on these units.I bought an 8 kilowatt unit myself that I should receive in a week or so. I noticed when shopping for them that there was no drastic difference in price between 5kw units and the 8kw units. 5kw will not be enough power to suit my application if 1kw equals 3100 BTUs. Thank you for sharing this video.
Honestly, I didn't get into the details. I turned it on and it blew hot air. LOL! To this point it has applied all the heat we need, but Tennessee doesn't get that cold.
@@TonysTractorAdventureThanks for the response! I am in Alabama so it should be fine here too. We may get snow once every other year where I am at. If snow covers the road here it becomes a holiday. If we get freezing rain (the worst thing of all) there will be no power. It is almost a certainty. We have been using a 27000 BTU liquid natural gas heater for over a decade. The price of diesel is about the same as a gallon of propane here. The main difference is that there is no way our propane heater will run as long on just one gallon of propane. The diesel seems to be more efficient. I believe it would cut our heating costs in half.
@@paulking7019 The 'p' is the hertz of the fuelpump. P 2.0 means the fuelpump will pump 2 times per second.
In this way it is also very easy to calculate your cost. One 'click' of the pump sends 0.022ml to the heater. So, with setting P 2.0, it means that every second the pump sends 2 x 0.022 ml (= 0.044 ml) to the heater. Multiply this by 60: it sends 2.64 ml to the heater every minute. Multiply this by 60 and it sends 158 ml to the heater every hour.
So, that means on P 2.0, your heater will run a little under 7 hours on 1 liter of diesel.
Also, many people say that an 8 Kw heater does not exist. It is just a 5 Kw heater that (if you're lucky) has its software changed to produce more heat.
I don't know my friend. I turned it on and it makes heat.
@@tomasviane3844 Thank you for the reply. I use the "P" setting to run mine all the time now. I got mine and as I expected it does not produce 8KW (as advertised) of heat into the space you are heating. I tried using the thermostat control and it works well when it is warm enough outside, but when the temps start falling below freezing the unit has to run on P 5.4 the whole time, because it doesn't produce enough heat for the space I have. (I am heating around 1000 sq feet.). It slowly loses ground to the cold through the night. I suppose It will make a great emergency/back up heater, it's just not a good full time heat source for me. I will stick to my propane heater for my primary heat. I will probably use this diesel heater to cut down on propane use since "off road" diesel (untaxed and dyed red, is $3.06 a gallon) is cheaper than propane (around $3.78) in my area per gallon for now. The two running together work great and my propane heater barely comes on when both are running together. 12 F is the coldest so far this winter.
A few small things most folks discover as they use these types of heaters for any amount of time. The fuel hose it comes with is really not up to the task. Replace it with a better quality hose and install an in-line filter, while you're at it. The heater pulls 150-180 watts while it's warming the glow-plug. That is more than you consistently want to pull through the automotive accessory plug; it will fail, at some point. Use a connection type that is more suitable for that amount of current, over time. The last thing is you should definitely let it burn "hot" (on high) for the last 5-10 minutes of every cycle, to keep carbon build-up to a minumum. This is kind of annoying because you kind of have to plan on that fact, when using it, including the end result of a room that is too warm. We have ours outside, in a water resistant setup, with the heater hose insulated and coming into the building through a dryer vent fitting. This way it doesn't take up any room inside and essentially eliminates any concerns about CO2.
I might agree on the 'green fuel hose', but mine is doing well. Been using it for 3 months now with no issues. I will look for a different fuel hose, but people shouldn't freak out about it.
@@tomasviane3844 - Read the reviews from people who have used it, out of necessity, for years. The fuel filter and running it on high at the end will save you some grief.
Step1 Throw away that cheap chinese fuel line get a real fuel line and add a fuel filter ✌🏻
Thank you. I will keep an eye on it.
Look at that fuel line and the way it's installed. It's doesn't even use a hose clamp and it's right next to the exhaust/ Looks like a fire waiting to happen. For one, that clear green fuel line is garbage and should be replaced with something of better quality. It's been known to swell and leak fuel.
The air intake for the combustion chamber should be fresh air from outside (cold air is denser and ignites better) and filtered to keep any fine particles out of the burn chamber and glowplug screen air intake hole (very important) That's NOT an air filter on the end of the intake air hose, it's only a muffler (doesn't even work) and should be replaced with a proper air filter.
Thank you for all your input. Mine has worked very well to this point. I will keep an eye on it.
How about the diesel fumes, while heating
There are no diesel fumes. Think you may have skipped a little bit of the video. 😁
You have the intake hooked up wrong, it should be outside not inside.
I guess if it was being used in an airtight environment it would matter. In my case, it doesn't matter.
Great video and channel. If you get the chance, I'd love to know the actual dimensions of this Silvel heater. The Amazon page measurements look wonky (and they list the same dimensions for heaters that look totally different.). Thanks!